Robert Eve

In the Virtualization Journal article, Maximize Your Integration Competency Center with Data Virtualization, I described multiple ways that data virtualization projects could benefit from ICC processes and support. But perhaps I put the cart before the horse. Instead I should hav... (more)

On April 12, 1912, the maiden voyage of the seemingly unsinkable RMS Titanic ended in disaster. One hundred years later to the day, is IT is on course for a similar collision, with similar catastrophic fate? An Increasingly Icy Relationship Between Business and IT Business dissat... (more)

Data virtualization is a hot topic today as business and IT realize data virtualization's business agility, time-to-solution and resource savings benefits. As a result, numerous new articles, research reports, white papers, videos and other content become available every day. I... (more)

Financial services IT generally leads any new technology wave. Large telecoms, pharmaceuticals, and energy firms follow quickly, with retail, government and smaller enterprises typically adopting as new technologies move to mainstream. Given that data virtualization has now reach... (more)

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. BI Today Is Too Slow According to the TDWI Benchmark Report: Organizational and Performance Metric... (more)

Have you ever heard the anyone boast that "at our company, our customers are our number one priority?" While this is easy to say, it is tough to do without complete insight into those customers. With full insights into everything there is to know about a customer, imagine how y... (more)

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 appr... (more)

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 ... (more)

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... (more)

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... (more)

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 Virtualizat... (more)

Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility is the first book published on the topic of data virtualization. Along with an overview of data virtualization and its advantages, it presents ten case studies of organizations that have ad... (more)

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 artic... (more)

Business Agility Requires Multiple Approaches 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 1 addres... (more)

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 Virtual... (more)

Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility is the first book published on the topic of data virtualization. Along with an overview of data virtualization and its advantages, it presents ten case studies of organizations that have ad... (more)

Cloud Computing Adoption is Accelerating Who wouldn't be interested in extensible functionality and computing resources at an attractive, pay-as-you-go price? The economics of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) are jus... (more)

"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment." This quote from Charles Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859 captures the essence of every organization's need to continuously ... (more)

Dynamic Times Require Dynamic BI Today's IT organizations face the daunting task of responding to constantly changing business demands, many of which require timely development of new or revised IT solutions. Mergers and acquisitions are just one example. Another is the fact that... (more)

A Tectonic Shift - Think Data Virtualization First! Wayne Eckerson, Director of Research at TechTarget and former head of research for TDWI, "used to think that data virtualization tools were great for niche applications, such as creating a quick and dirty prototype or augmenting... (more)