Kalido recently introduced version 9 of its Information Engine product. The company has been around for 10 years but has had difficulty establishing its identity in the information management market. Kalido was perhaps ahead of its time, partly a vendor of data integration, partly master data management and partly data governance. As an example of the positioning challenge, its core product, Information Engine, while not a data integration tool, could in some cases provide sufficient...
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Topics:
Data Quality,
Data Warehousing,
Master Data Management,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Information Applications,
Information Management,
Kalido
The information management (IM) technology market is undergoing a revolution similar to the one in the business intelligence (BI) market. We define information management as the acquisition, organization, control and use of information to create and enhance business value. It is a necessary ingredient of successful BI implementations, and while some vendors such as IBM, Information Builders, Pentaho and SAP are in addition integrating their BI and IM offerings, each discipline involves...
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Topics:
Data Quality,
Social Media,
IT Performance,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Technology,
CIO,
Complex Event Processing,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Information Management,
Information Technology,
Operational Intelligence
SAP has launched its Enterprise Information Management (EIM) 4.0 release as part of its “Run Better Tour.” It includes a broad range of information management components spanning data integration, data quality, data profiling, metadata management and more. The launch was done in conjunction with SAP Business Intelligence (BI) 4.0, which got much bigger billing at the event –to the point where one might call this a stealth marketing campaign. However, the event did identify three themes intended...
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Topics:
Data Quality,
SAP,
Social Media,
IT Performance,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Technology,
CIO,
Complex Event Processing,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Information Management,
Information Technology,
Operational Intelligence
The proper management of data is ever more important and complex. Business people must have easy access to data from all over the enterprise, but unguarded access and distribution may enable users to bypass the IT organization’s rules for data management, copy and paste whatever they like into spreadsheets and share it in uncontrolled fashion. Firm control of enterprise data requires policies and practice for governance, yet our benchmark research found that only 12 percent of organizations are...
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Topics:
Master Data Management,
MDM,
IT Performance,
Data Governance,
Information Management,
Kalido
The proper management of data is ever more important and complex. Business people must have easy access to data from all over the enterprise, but unguarded access and distribution may enable users to bypass the IT organization’s rules for data management, copy and paste whatever they like into spreadsheets and share it in uncontrolled fashion. Firm control of enterprise data requires policies and practice for governance, yet our benchmark research found that only 12 percent of organizations are...
Read More
Topics:
Master Data Management,
MDM,
IT Performance,
Data Governance,
Information Management,
Kalido
