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Technology Audits - published 23/08/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Richard Edwards
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Those involved in any form of IT development will know that the sleeves roll up furthest and the sweat drips most when dealing with the complex issues relating to data integration. Enterprise data management (EDM) is a new twist on an acronym coined by Cadis that should not be confused with enterprise decision management. EDM deals with a trio of complex data management problems that are almost as old as corporate computing – data integration, data quality, and master data management (MDM) to validate, c…
Technology Audits - published 10/08/2010 - Madan Sheina
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Spectrum combines data-integration, data-cleansing, and location-intelligence capabilities in one SOA-enabled technology platform. It brings together assets from three of its major technology acquisitions: Group 1 for customer data quality, Mapinfo for location intelligence, and Sagent for data integration. While the heritage of Group 1 makes the platform ideally suited to the customer data domain, Spectrum aims to extend this capability to other equally vital data dimensions and domains such as location…
Technology Audits - published 10/08/2010 - Helena Schwenk
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The Lixto Price Intelligence Suite is a solution that extracts price-comparison information from competitor online web channels and combines it with internal data sources so organizations gain greater visibility into the factors that might influence price. The suite works by navigating and extracting competitive product and pricing information from predefined online data sources before standardizing, combining, and loading this information into a BI data warehouse for role-based analysis and reporting. T…
Technology Audits - published 10/08/2010 - Helena Schwenk
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Saperion ECM Suite is an enterprise content management (ECM) solution targeted at mid-sized to large organizations. It incorporates document management, a content repository, document imaging enabling capture and archiving, and records management. Web content management (WCM) is provided through direct integration with WCM systems.
Technology Audits - published 23/07/2010 - Sue Clarke
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We all fill out paper forms at some time, when opening a bank account, filling-out a job application, or completing a survey. From a data-processing perspective the downside of paper forms is that the extraction and collation of the data gathered via paper forms is costly, time-consuming, and error-prone. Electronic forms solutions address these issues, and enable organizations to do things differently while improving business efficiency as they do so. The business benefits from these often specialized s…
Technology Audits - published 23/07/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Richard Edwards
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SAP BusinessObjects Edge is a BI suite based on the company’s market-leading BI platform BusinessObjects Enterprise. The suite offers a comprehensive end-to-end solution for the query, reporting, search, and analysis needs of SME organizations. All the end-user tools are mature and well designed with modern interfaces that support and satisfy the needs of business analysts, casual business users, and information consumers. The suite is available in three different packages (standard, data integration, an…
Technology Audits - published 19/07/2010 - Helena Schwenk
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Active Navigation 4.0 enables the analysis of the state of unstructured and semi-structured document-based data, helps cleanse the information, and migrates files to a new and rationalized taxonomy and file structure.
Technology Audits - published 09/07/2010 - Mike Davis, Somak Roy
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Organizations that require a scalable enterprise search platform but cannot afford to (or don’t want to) pay the licensing fees of proprietary vendors can deploy the open-source Lucene/Solr to deliver search capabilities. However, because it is a platform with a relatively basic user interface (UI), a level of services and development will be required to make it applicable for specific organizations and to meet functional requirements. A range of specialist implementation companies and systems integrator…
Technology Audits - published 09/07/2010 - Mike Davis
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Digital pen-and-paper technologies have been around for several years in various guises, yet no single offering has managed to break into mainstream use. Pen-input devices and handwriting-recognition technologies are featured on a range of handheld personal digital assistants (PDAs) and tablet PC designs, but they are seldom used. You only have to look around a typical meeting room to see that pen and paper is still the preferred option when it comes to capturing ad hoc information. In the last couple of…
Technology Audits - published 08/07/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Richard Edwards
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CloudView is a next-generation search and information-access platform for enterprise, web, and OEM use. Its scalable service-oriented architecture provides advanced data-extraction, indexation, and text-analytics features, and is suited to a wide range of usage scenarios, from traditional web and enterprise search to search-based applications.
Technology Audits - published 08/07/2010 - Mike Davis, Richard Edwards
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Nuxeo Enterprise Platform (EP) is an open-source enterprise content management platform that provides a foundation for organizations to deploy applications. It is ideal for medium-sized to large enterprises across a wide range of horizontal and vertical markets. The company’s strategy involves developing horizontal solutions such as Nuxeo Document Management, Nuxeo Digital Asset Management and Nuxeo Case Management Framework, and vertical solutions such as Nuxeo NewsWave, solutions for education, and DAM…
Technology Audits - published 07/07/2010 - Sue Clarke
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Alfresco’s enterprise content management solution Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.3 provides an open-source platform for document management, web content management, records management, image management, and digital asset management. It provides functions such as aspect support, automated rules and actions, a simple scripting environment, and integration with CIFS, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office, and Lotus Notes.
Technology Audits - published 01/07/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Mike Davis, Sue Clarke
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Organizations of all sizes have deployed business intelligence (BI) and enterprise data warehousing (EDW) solutions for more than three decades. Yet relatively few manage to use BI to its full capacity. Many so-called “enterprise”-wide BI deployments still remain sporadic, siloed to departments and confined to narrow functional niches. The problem is not a lack of BI technologies; there are plenty of those available. Rather it is deciding which deployment strategy is right for your particular organizatio…
Technology Audits - published 01/07/2010 - Madan Sheina, Surya Mukherjee
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The Google Search Appliance (GSA) can natively crawl and index documents in popular content-management systems including EMC Documentum, IBM FileNet, Microsoft SharePoint, and Open Text Livelink. Furthermore, the GSA has an open content connector framework that enables organizations to connect the appliance to virtually any other content-management system. It integrates well with existing security and access-control systems, and offers end users many of the same benefits they have come to expect from Goo…
Technology Audits - published 28/06/2010 - Mike Davis, Richard Edwards
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Vast and growing volumes of data are putting an increased burden on the infrastructure of data warehouses. As a result, conventional architectures designed to function around batch-oriented processing models are becoming increasingly outdated and often fail to keep pace with the more complex and advancing analysis needs of organizations. WX2 offers a potential solution to these issues because it runs on a massively parallel processing (MPP) shared-nothing architecture with in-memory optimized for analyti…
Technology Audits - published 23/06/2010 - Helena Schwenk
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BIReady has developed a highly relevant technology for today’s tight IT economy. Many data warehouses today are still created and maintained ‘by hand’. And many are not successful. Often these projects simply take too much time, exceed budget, and do not meet user expectations. Seasoned IT practitioners will know that the most intractable problems of implementing a BI system relate to the pain and expense of creating the necessary back-end infrastructure – namely, mapping logical data models to physical …
Technology Audits - published 08/06/2010 - Madan Sheina
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Most of the collaboration solutions on the market today were designed primarily to meet internal collaboration requirements. Traditional on-premise enterprise collaboration solutions were not designed with collaboration with external partners in mind, and many of the early hosted collaboration tools did not offer enterprise-class functionality. Huddle is seeking to bridge this gap.
Technology Audits - published 27/05/2010 - Richard Edwards, Sandeep Mishra
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With increasing volumes of information both internally and on websites, organizations, their employees, and customers require search technologies to retrieve the most relevant information. Funnelback Enterprise and Funnelback SaaS are comprehensive enterprise search and retrieval (ESR) solutions that can be used to search multiple heterogeneous sources, including intranets, enterprise applications, and websites, to provide highly relevant results. The design includes the ability to tune the search functi…
Technology Audits - published 20/05/2010 - Balachandar Ganesh, Mike Davis
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Aster Data’s nCluster provides a massively parallel processing (MPP) data-warehousing architecture that takes advantage of a MapReduce environment in the database engine that supports SQL as well as other development languages. Using these features, nCluster can parallel process multiple workloads in the data warehouse and deliver high performance. It also provides a built-in application runtime framework for in-database analytics processing that brings the application logic close to the data to eliminat…
Technology Audits - published 13/04/2010 - Sarah Burnett
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TerminalFour Site Manager 7.0 is a web-content management (WCM) system that focuses on three key areas: WCM, workflow and self-service e-forms, and enterprise content integration. Many of the features are delivered out of the box and although the product is not solely targeted at medium to large enterprises, it is highly scalable. Its multilingual capability enables organizations to support multiple websites in a variety of languages. It provides high levels of functionality for mid-size to large organiz…
Technology Audits - published 01/04/2010 - Sue Clarke
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MySource Matrix is an open-source WCM product that provides a cost-effective platform to create and manage Web content. It benefits from a large community of code contributors that help to extend its capabilities. For many organizations the Website is now the primary method of interacting with potential clients, and there are only a few seconds in which to engage visitors and turn them into customers. It is therefore imperative that organizations are able to create dynamic, timely, relevant, and personal…
Technology Audits - published 01/04/2010 - Sue Clarke
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ISYS 2009 Enterprise Access Suite is an enterprise search software solution that has been designed to provide a cost-effective search, navigation, and discovery solution that works across a wide range of formats, languages, and platforms. The main solutions are ISYS Enterprise Server, ISYS Integration Kit, and ISYS Anywhere. The product has several features relevant to its target market, such as multiple querying mechanisms, e-discovery capabilities, multilingual support, results navigation, and post-que…
Technology Audits - published 19/03/2010 - Sue Clarke
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Hyperwave Collaborative Information Platform (CIM) is an enterprise content management (ECM) portfolio of tightly integrated products that comprises three main components: Hyperwave Document Management (DM), Hyperwave Records Management (RM), and Hyperwave Web Content Management (WCM). It also includes collaboration modules, and Hyperwave Portal, Hyperwave Workflow, and Hyperwave Explorer add-ins. Organizations that do not manage their content adequately cannot ensure that they have no contentious or non…
Technology Audits - published 19/03/2010 - Karthik Balakrishnan, Somak Roy, Sue Clarke
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QlikView from QlikTech is a business intelligence (BI) tool based on in-memory analytics. The concept of in-memory processing was relatively novel when it first emerged more than a decade ago, but advances in hardware such as 64-bit computing and cheaper memory prices are moving in-memory out of its niche status. QlikView’s approach enables faster querying and reporting performance, something reflected in the company’s strong focus on delivering a server that is highly tuned and optimized for performing …
Technology Audits - published 17/03/2010 - Sarah Burnett
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