Data as an Asset - What's Changed?

Test Data Management is, as ever, a changing space. What’s been happening since our last Market Update?

This blog aims to provide a whirlwind tour of the most recent trends in data management, and to explain what those trends mean and why they’re important.

After making an investment in the company back in 2019, Informatica has now announced the acquisition of GreenBay Technologies.

How do you apply the right to erasure (a GDPR requirement) if you use an append-only database? Short answer: you can’t.

Why is data governance so hot right now?

Addressing GDPR for business benefit rather than as a cost

Informatica has acquired Diaku. A second recent acquisition of a data governance provider suggests that these may be the first acquisitions of many.

Syncsort has acquired Trillium Software: I admit to not expecting this

ERwin has just been spun out from CA Technologies

Trillium has partnered with UNIFi to enter the extended data preparation space

Teradata will be reselling Alation's Data Discovery product in place of Loom.

Another one of my occasional digs at misleading marketing material, this time from CloverETL

CA has acquired Grid-Tools. As always, the questions are what CA will do with its new products and will this be good for users?

Informatica World announcements

Advizor is an often overlooked competitor to Qlik, Tableau and Spotfire.

Rocket Software is just about to launch a data preparation/analytic platform.

Datawatch has launched its Managed Analytics Platform, which brings together data preparation and Panopticon.

Stories are becoming broader and that doesn't necessarily make life easier

BackOffice is moving towards a much more tool agnostic (not just SAP) approach and across the spectrum of data integration/governance functions.

Embarcadero comments on acquisition

Embarcadero acquires ERwin

Just when you've found a second company offering synthetic test data generation another one comes along.

The most important thing about Excel 2013 is the governance and its going to put a number of third party companies and products under a lot of pressure

Will Informatica's next acqusition be Parasoft?

What has made Datanomic such a juicy morsel for Oracle?

Trillium Software has recently launched TrilliumApps: this could change the face of the software industry.

DataFlux's Unity project is about to come to fruition

Comments from Informatica's recent analyst conference

Cadis provides enterprise data management (EDM) for the buy side of capital markets

Pervasive BI, Pervasive data quality, Pervasive availability - what's with all this pervasiveness?

Kalido has become very active over the last few months

How come Finsbury Solutions is the biggest spreadsheet management vendor and yet they are not at all well known?

HP Data Retention and Guardian Online (HP DRAGON) is a solution primarily aimed at fulfilling the needs of the EU Data Retention Directive (EU DRD), as well as similar communications data retention...

Kalido has announced the Kalido KONA Information Appliance. Of course, as you will know, Kona is the word for capital in Hawaiian and, since the appliance is based on the Netezza TwinFin, the...

iWay, the Information Builders subsidiary, has introduced an EIM (enterprise information management) offering. Since the term EIM may not necessarily be clear I had better explain that this is a...

Among the big beasts in the data quality jungle I don't think there are many people who would include Pitney Bowes. However, that could be about to change. First, a word about the company:...

Finally (I think) there is one more problem with standard data quality solutions and, specifically, with most data profiling products. I have previously referred to the fact that there is not as...

Having set out my stall with regard to conventional data cleansing and matching products (a report card that would read tries hard, could do better) I now want to turn my attention to data...

So far in this series of articles I have discussed the failures of traditional data quality tools when it comes to matching in general and product and complex data matching in particular. However,...

I recently wrote about the deficiencies of traditional data quality tools when it comes to data matching. How the conventional pattern-based approach with user defined rules for weights simply...

There are actually a number of problems with traditional data quality solutions (which I will return to) but in this article I am going to focus on what is arguably the basis of all data quality,...