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Tuesday, 31 January 2006

What Do Informatica, Similarity Systems and SAP Have in Common?

Other members of the Business Intelligence Network have already commented on Informatica's proposed acquisition of Similarity Systems and so I won't replicate their views here. This acquisition does, however, demonstrate the move by the original ETL vendors toward a complete enterprise-wide data integration platform that supports ETL, EII, integration with EAI technology, metadata management, and data profiling and data quality tools. The Similarity acquisition fills out the data profiling and data quality component of this platform for Informatica.

The direction by the main data integration vendors toward a complete enterprise data integration platform will make it difficult for third-party vendors that focus on one aspect of the technology stack to survive, and so we can expect more product consolidation in this segment of the marketplace.

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Monday, 23 January 2006

EII Acquisitions and Developments You May Have Missed

Enterprise Information Integration (EII) was a hot topic last year. If, however, you ask IT folks to name EII vendors and products, the list will most probably be quite short. Most people can name the Composite Software Information Server and the IBM WebSphere Information Integrator, but after that they begin to struggle.

There are a lot of companies involved in EII, but many of these are small and several of them very acquired last year. There are a few left that are ripe for the picking (and so watch this space).

Here are some EII developments you may have missed.

Posted by Colin White at 4:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)