Robert Eve is the EVP of Marketing at Composite Software, the data virtualization gold standard and co-author of Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility. Bob's experience includes executive level roles at leading enterprise software companies such as Mercury Interactive, PeopleSoft, and Oracle. Bob holds a Masters of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
ICCs can be used wisely to help, or unwisely to inadvertently hinder, adoption of new data management technologies such as data virtualization.
Because of both organizational resistance and technological concerns, enterprises often struggle when adopting new data management technolog...May. 1, 2012 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,093
Like their business counterparts, IT has proven to be amazingly adaptive in times of challenge. Wary for business’s growing dissatisfaction, with a few wise course corrections, for example the adoption of data virtualization, IT can continue as business’s vehicle for success.
Business...
With the DV Café, staying abreast of key data virtualization trends and insights is now much easier. Not only is the freshest data virtualization content consolidated in a single place, the DV Café’s format make this content enjoyable to consume. Further, the DV Café’s “best of data vi...
Given that data virtualization has now reached mainstream, how is small and mid-sized organization adoption of data virtualization proceeding? And how are these firms benefiting?
Data virtualization is a data integration approach and technology organizations use to provide users with ...
Organizations and decision processes are changing. Business intelligence has to adapt. These dynamic, new reporting and analytical needs can be summarized in single word – Agility.
Organizations and decision processes are changing.
Business intelligence has to adapt.
These dynamic,...
With full insights into everything there is to know about a customer, imagine how you could improve customer satisfaction, reduce customer churn, more easily upsell additional offerings and more.
The business case for unified, 360° views of your customers is compelling.
"From an abs...
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.
In What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?, five data integration challenges that data virtualiz...
Just as business and technology continuously evolves, so too will the scope and impact of data virtualization adoption and offerings. The offerings that best meet expanding access, optimization, deployment, ease-of-use, and governance requirements, along with the organizations that ad...
With hundreds of organizations deploying data virtualization, a number of best practices have emerged. In this article, I will pass along the lessons these ten organizations learned along the way, as they are a valuable to help other organizations avoid common pitfalls and realize the...
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 histo...
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While the benefits derived from greater business agility are significant, costs are also an important factor to consider.
This is especially true in today’s extremely competitive business environment and difficult economic times.
This article, the last in a series of three articles...
Agile businesses create business agility through a combination of business decision agility, time-to-solution agility and resource agility.
This article addresses how data virtualization delivers time-to-solution agility. Part 1addressed business decision agility and Part 3 will addr...
Enterprise adoption of data virtualization has accelerated along with a growing need for greater business agility.
The close relationship of business agility and data virtualization was described in my recent Virtualization Magazine article, The Agile Business – Why Data Virtualizati...
Pfizer Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets medicines for both humans and animals. As the world’s largest drug manufacturer, Pfizer operates globally with 111,500 employees and a presence in over 100 countries.
Worldwide Pharmaceutical Sciences ...
Not only are the volumes daunting, these integrations can be challenging to build and maintain. Extending your old integration methods won’t work. Take data integration for instance. There are multiple new requirements that must be addressed. Traditional direct database queries and...
Enterprises that have added data virtualization to their IT infrastructure are gaining significant business decision agility, time-to-solution agility and resource agility benefits as they address their business agility challenges.
While the importance of business agility is well und...
Self-service BI is business’s natural response to a fast moving business environment where traditional IT cannot keep pace. Data virtualization is a data integration approach and technology that can enable self-service BI more successfully and sooner.
Today's IT organizations face ...
Leading analyst, Wayne Eckerson says "data virtualization is the key to creating an agile, cost-effective data management infrastructure. In fact, data architects should first design and deploy a data virtualization layer prior to building any data management or delivery artifacts.”
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The world's largest gathering of data virtualization experts and implementers, Data Virtualization Day, was held October 13 in New York City. Sponsored by Composite Software, it drew nearly 200 attendees from over 80 different companies, along with several noted analysts.
In "Real Tim...
Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility explores today's data virtualization solutions and presents ten Composite Software-enabled case studies describing how enterprises across a wide range of industries and domains have successfully ...
Data virtualization enables IT to deliver this information to business with greater agility and lower costs than traditional data integration approaches and technologies. But how does data virtualization apply to my situation?
What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization? described d...
As with any new technology, you know you need to begin your data virtualization adoption journey with a business justification and a technical evaluation, before you can commence a phased implementation.
The business value of data virtualization comes from its ability to help organiza...
Data virtualization is a versatile data integration solution that can be deployed to solve a wide range of data integration challenges. Based on nearly ten years of successful implementations, several common usage patterns have emerged to help guide your enterprise’s data virtualizati...
Data discovery is a solution that helps IT see patterns amongst source data. It enables IT analysts and architects to examine data, locate key entities and reveal hidden connections in data scattered throughout an organization.
It has been said that the ability to see patterns is a s...
Is your organization considering adding data virtualization to your data integration, SOA, and cloud technology stack?
Or have you already started your data virtualization adoption journey?
"Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility" will be the unifying t...
Leading enterprises in number industries rely on the data virtualization to integrate the terabytes of critical strategic and operational data across merged organizations.
The promise of larger market share, greater economies of scale and superior financial performance make mergers ...
The IT industry is fascinating due to its ever-changing technology and markets.
But like a pointillist painting, sometimes the best way to understand the big picture is to step back a bit.
When I do that today, what do I see?
Big data has made a big bang with massive "Web-scale" use...
To respond to this dynamic business and technology challenge, communications and media companies have made significant IT investments. These and multiple mergers have resulted in numerous data silos and incredible IT complexity. As a result, communications and media companies are see...
With data volumes and complexity expanding rapidily, new technologies such as data virtualization are critical. Here are twelve good reasons to use it.
An IDC research study found that, in 2010, the universe of information exceeded one zettabyte, or one trillion gigabytes, for the f...
If you agree that data abstraction provides many benefits, how can an enterprise information architect ensure a successful data abstraction implementation? Step one is to select a data virtualization platform on which you can develop, deploy and manage your data.
Once you have the te...
What has the industry been calling the concept that we now call ‘data virtualization’ over the past ten years?
"What's in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet; "
What's in a Name?
In Juliet's famous scene from Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespea...
Four of the top five global energy companies rely on data virtualization to provide the diverse information required across a range of strategic initiatives and business-critical IT projects.
Discovering new upstream sources, smoothly delivering products through downstream distributio...
An Integration Competency Center is the nexus for an enterprise-scale strategy that successfully combines and evolves the people, process and technology required achieving all the business and IT benefits that integration middleware can deliver. Including data virtualization in your e...
Enterprises are turning to enabling technologies such as data virtualization support the accessibility, security, consistency, quality and auditability capabilities required for effective data governance.
As with motherhood and apple pie, who can argue with data governance?
Business...
In late 2008, I wrote the cover article for the November edition of Virtualization Journal. Ten Mistakes to Avoid When Virtualizing Data described the ten most common mistakes made by data virtualization’s early adopters. Are these the same mistakes data virtualization adopters are ma...
The business case for unified, 360° views of key enterprise data is compelling. But enterprises are complex. And enterprise IT is even more so. Data is siloed everywhere. Getting a single view of anything can be a significant challenge.
Proving compelling return is critical for any investment today. This is especially important for IT investments which are often an enterprise or government agency’s largest capital expense. There are many ways that data virtualization can deliver value to your business functions and I...
With money tighter than ever, federal agencies are under increasing pressure to improve efficiency, share information more readily and execute on ever expanding congressional mandates.
But this is far easier said than done in IT environments with government-sized volumes, decades of...
Unlike the Ritz where the highly trained staff can anticipate your needs just by the look in your face, most enterprises’ huge investments in CRM systems, marketing analytics, customer self-service and more have resulted in islands of nonintegrated automation and inconsistent, inaccess...
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