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Bloor Research Library - Our Latest Papers
Bloor has a library of over 750 published research papers which provide incisive but cost effective decision support information. Our research publications can help your organisation by giving you:
- Greater insight into the business issues technology is addressing
- Thorough concise reviews on technologies and the issues they address, with comparisons between all the vendors and the ways in which they solve the problems
- Detailed evaluations of individual IT solutions, effectively communicating their value and the issues they address
Here are some of our latest papers - to see others, please select an option from the right-hand menu or use our search facility.
Best practices for cloud security - how security in the cloud can be a better bet than doing it yourself
By: Fran Howarth
Although due diligence is required in the selection of such services, organisations should no longer consider security to be an inhibitor
Data Migration - 2011
By: Philip Howard
The message from this report is clear: data migration can be successfully achieved, with a low risk of overruns, provided that best practices are adopted.
expressor 3.5 to 4.0
By: Philip Howard
Talk to any vendor in the data integration market and they will tell you that their biggest competitor is hand coding. Why? The simple answer is...
Tools for Data Governance - DataFlux Data Management Platform
By: Philip Howard
There is much work to be done in providing true data governance solutions. However, there is no point in attempting to boil the ocean.
EXASolution 4.0
By: Philip Howard
EXASolution has a number of potential advantages over its rivals, which range from ease of implementation to performance and from low cost of ownership to rapid
Mapping and Modelling Survey
By: Mark McGregor
The survey was conceived and commissioned in order to try and ascertain what the current state of the mapping and modelling market is, as relates to process.
7 Steps to Business Architecture - a value-based approach for greater success
By: Mark McGregor
Business Architecture is the glue that links the pieces together as a coherent whole.
7 Steps to BPM success - a pragmatic approach to leveraging BPM technology for business success
By: Mark McGregor
This paper provides the reader with a 7 Step model that seeks to suggest ways in which organisations can maximise their business returns.
Innovator for Business Analysts - an agile Business Process modelling tool
By: David Norfolk
With Innovator for Business Analysts, MID offers a modern, forwards looking tool for the business analyst role-oriented towards business stakeholders (rather than mainly targeting IT).
Informatica Data Replication for real-time (big) data warehousing
By: Philip Howard
While real-time analytics is becoming more and more urgent for many organisations the ability to accomplish this can easily be constrained by the volume of data that needs to be analysed.
Email archiving best practices - a competitive overview of major players in the market
By: Fran Howarth
The information presented in this report is intended to help organisations with their evaluations of the major players in the market for email archiving technologies.
Composite Information Server for Netezza
By: Philip Howard
This paper contains a brief consideration of Composite's technology, together with details of how it interrelates to Netezza, plus a discussion of potential uses of this combined technology.
Master Data Management
By: Andy Hayler
In this document we include the full spectrum of MDM products; some have a heritage of either CDI or PIM, or even vendor/supplier management, while others were designed to deal with multiple data domains.
Data Migration - 2011
By: Philip Howard
This paper draws from both our latest research and a comparison with the results of our 2007 survey.
Where is the Business? - Business intelligence empowered by location
By: Natalie Newman
Business intelligence supports decision-making but location shows you 'Where is the Business?'