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Life Time Fitness, a
leader in the health club industry, recently developed
advanced data management capabilities including: real-time
performance, highest customer care with better customer
information views, and data consolidation to enable
cross-selling. |
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Don't Fear the Data |
| Network Computing recently devised a data
integration project to compare commercial EII offerings.
Seven EII vendors were invited to participate in the
evaluation. The criteria included how well the EII
products integrate data sources, manage the system and
configure client access. Composite Information Server
(CIS) took the Editor's Choice award, with IBM's DB2
Information Integrator (DB2II) coming in second. |
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The Myth and the
Magic of Enterprise Information Integration
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| Enterprise Information Integration (EII) has
been gaining prominence among vendors for its ability to
extend the data warehouse not replace it. This article
provides several ways in which EII extends the data
warehouses to bring a faster and greater return on
information. Included is the ability to combine
real-time data with data warehouses, and the ability to
link unstructured data, Internet data and data from
partners and external systems to support advanced
decision-making. |
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Another Data Federation
Candidate |
| Jim Green, Chairman and CEO
of Composite Software was recently interview by Philip
Howard of IT-Director.com. In his report, Howard says
that Composite is worth watching for its focus on
performance (based on technologies like an advanced data
optimizer and export-enabled data caching) and
Composite's implementation of EII within a Web Services
environment. |
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The Impact of New BI Trends on Data
Integration |
| This article
explores the impact of Business Intelligence trends on
data integration. The trends include: business
performance management, real-time analysis, dashboards
and data visualization, and reporting. The common theme
determining the success of these initiatives is the
integration of the underlying data. |
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Transparency Is Clearly On The
Way |
A transparent enterprise
provides real-time visibility to all data (digital,
physical, and telemetric). Daniel Weitzner, of WWC
Consortium and MIT AI Lab, says that the rise of new
business intelligence systems, falling storage prices,
rise of sensor networks, and public policies that demand
greater enterprise openness will make transparency a
reality soon.
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