In the realm of technology that matters for business and IT, our firm as part of our responsibility continually assesses the latest technology and how it can impact organizations’ efficiency and effectiveness. Our benchmark research in technology innovation found that 87% of participants indicated the importance of increasing the organization’s value through technology innovation. Every year we take our knowledge from research and technology briefings to focus on our Technology Innovation Awards and determine the vendors and products that have the potential to drive change in the market, the competitiveness of an organization’s business and sometimes just how efficiently a company operates. Our firm believes that Innovation can come from any size technology vendor from the smallest to the largest that are measured on a spectrum of attributes that contribute to the specific impact of the technology.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Datameer,
Mobile,
Sales,
Social Media,
Sustainability,
Customer,
ESRI,
Globoforce,
GRC,
HCM,
Kronos,
Kyriba,
Location Analytics,
Marketing,
NetBase,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Overall Operational Leadership,
Peoplefluent,
Planview,
SQLstream,
VMWare,
VPI,
IT Analytics & Performance,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Hortonworks,
IBM,
Informatica,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Information Technology,
KXEN,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Contact Center,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Financial Management,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Johnson Controls Panoptix,
Roambi,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Service & Supply Chain,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Upstream Works,
Vertex,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Xactly
Salesforce is a global software-as-a-service (SaaS) company to be reckoned with. The swarming crowds at its Dreamforce event last week were estimated to exceed 90,000. The company is rapidly growing an ecosystem that includes Sales, Service and Marketing Clouds; Force.com for building applications; and Data.com for storing data in the cloud centrally for use across Salesforce products. It is also focusing on social computing, as I outlined at the beginning of the event. Hundreds of Salesforce partners complement and in some cases compete with the company with a large range of applications and tools available on the Salesforce AppExchange.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Master Data Management,
Salesforce.com,
Social Media,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
SnapLogic,
Zyme Solutions,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Informatica,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Data,
data integrity,
database.com,
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Kapow,
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
Ventana Research has just released the 2012 Value Index for Data Integration, in which we evaluate the competency and maturity of vendors and products. Our firm has been researching this software category for almost a decade. Our latest benchmark research in information management found that data integration is a critical component of information management strategies, according to 55 percent of organizations. Our benchmark research on organizations using this software not only uncovers best practices and trends, but it also highlights why IT is using data integration to advance its competencies across people and processes.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Master Data Management,
Microsoft,
Pentaho,
SAP,
SAS,
Social Media,
Talend,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
SnapLogic,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Mobility,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
IBM,
Informatica,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Location Intelligence,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Syncsort,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
At this year’s Information Builders Summit, the company’s annual conference for users and analysts (Twitter: #Summit2011) in Dallas, the long-time supplier of business intelligence and information management software showed how it has been able to sustain double-digit revenue growth thanks to highly accessible and scalable software that operates on a variety of platforms and data sources. Its recent expansion into information management, master data management and integration helps organizations link data to business analytics quickly – something our benchmark research has found to be essential. It also is continuing to advance BI on mobile devices.
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Topics:
Social Media,
Sustainability,
Google,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Playbook,
RIM,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Information Builders,
Location Intelligence,
Mobility,
Operational Intelligence,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Digital Technology
At the Information Builders 2010 conference I spent some time to learn about the latest in its business intelligence (BI) technology and also performance management, which my colleague has analyzed recently (See: “IBI’s Eye Popping New Performance Management Software”). But I focused more on information management, which is becoming a strategic component of the company’s portfolio. Its iWay Software includes a suite of integration adapters used to interoperate across processes and data types along with its integration server, and I investigated several products that use these two foundation components for various aspects of information management.
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Topics:
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Data Integration,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM)
At the Information Builders 2010 conference I spent some time to learn about the latest in its business intelligence (BI) technology and also performance management, which my colleague has analyzed recently (See: “IBI’s Eye Popping New Performance Management Software”). But I focused more on information management, which is becoming a strategic component of the company’s portfolio. Its iWay Software includes a suite of integration adapters used to interoperate across processes and data types along with its integration server, and I investigated several products that use these two foundation components for various aspects of information management.
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Topics:
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Data Integration,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM)
