Robert Eve

Access to and analysis of complete, high-quality actionable information is the key to effective business decisions making. Data virtualization enables IT to provide business with the information it needs with greater agility and lower costs than traditional data integration approaches and technologies.   As a result, business units in every industry are pushing on IT to adopt data virtualization. How does data virtualization apply to your organization? How will you meet your industry-specific data virtualization needs? Will your data virtualization investments pay off? Data Virtualization Adoption Strategies In What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?, five data integration challenges that data virtualization was capable of solving were identified.  Understanding these challenges and solutions can help guide an enterprise's data virtualization adoption strategy ... (more)

Roadmap for Data Virtualization

It is clear that information management is becoming more difficult. Business users today are far more demanding as competition and cost-cutting drive IT requirements, and information savvy business staff members deploy more "do-it-yourself" capabilities such as those described in Data Virtualization at Pfizer: A Case Study. Information overload due to exponential volume growth and omnipresent delivery on our desktops, phones and tablets, is something we all feel at a personal level. Further, the IT environment keeps getting more complex as add new big data sources, such as Hadoo... (more)

Data Virtualization Best Practices

Driven by business demands for greater agility and lower IT costs, enterprise adoption of data virtualization has moved into the technology mainstream. With hundreds of organizations deploying data virtualization, a number of best practices have emerged. In compiling the ten case studies described in the recently published Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility, co-author Judith R. Davis and I identified five best practices common to these successful implementations. In this article, I will pass along the lessons these ten organi... (more)

The Time Is Right for Data Virtualization

Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility is the first book published on the topic of data virtualization.  In writing the book's foreword, well-known IT industry analyst Colin White of BI Research, summarizes data virtualization's history and value, concluding that data virtualization's time has come. This article includes excerpts from the book's foreword. Supporting Business Users' Information Needs Providing business users with the data they need to make effective decisions has always been difficult. Increasing data volumes, var... (more)

Data Virtualization Adoption Propelled by Significant Business Benefits

Enterprise adoption of data virtualization accelerated in 2011 propelled by organizations growing need for greater business agility, lower costs and better performance. These benefits were fully described in an earlier series of articles: The Agile Business - Why Data Virtualization Is Needed How Data Virtualization Delivers Business Agility - Part 1 How Data Virtualization Improves Business Agility - Part 2 How Data Virtualization Improves Business Agility - Part 3 The success of data virtualization can now be observed across hundreds of organizations and is clearly evident in t... (more)