Cynthia Harvey

Bottom Line For enterprises migrating to Amazon Web Services, AWS’s own migration service may offer the lowest overall cost: it is free for AWS customers. Its Database Migration Service is particularly popular, and it also offers server migration capabilities, a migration hub with a dashboard and hardware for transferring data via a physical device. To […]

Pursuing a multicloud strategy offers a variety of benefits. When combining public cloud or hybrid cloud, enterprises seek to avoid vendor lock-in using a multicloud strategy. Others are looking to reduce cloud costs or want to use vendors’ unique capabilities in artificial intelligence, serverless computing or augmented reality. Multicloud can also help companies improve reliability, […]

Today, most enterprises have a multicloud IT environment. In other words, they use more than one public cloud or private cloud. Some people use the word multicloud to refer to all three main types of cloud computing — software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). By […]

Businesses seeking to improve their data integration know that today’s data integration software performs complex tasks. They enable applications to access data associated with other applications, and also to migrate data from one platform to another, transforming it as necessary. Given this sophistication, selecting the best data integration tool is far from easy. Adding to […]

Bottom Line: One of the best cloud-based data integration solutions available, Dell Boomi has a very rich feature set. Its low-code development interface and automation features make it easy for even fairly inexperienced business analysts to use. Analysts give it top marks, and it is one of the fastest-growing integration platform as a service (iPaaS) […]

Bottom Line: Any enterprise that uses other IBM database or analytics software will likely be interested in the IBM InfoSphere Information Server. It’s a full-featured platform that unites data integration capabilities with data quality and data governance. Gartner estimates that approximately 10,700 organizations worldwide use the product. Jump to: IBM InfoSphere Features Table Company Description: […]

Bottom Line: Very highly rated by analysts and users, Informatica’s data integration products are among the best in the market. PowerCenter’s claim to fame is its metadata-driven management, which provides advanced capabilities and improves ease of use. Out of the box, PowerCenter is less full-featured than some of the other data integration platforms on the […]

Bottom Line: Organizations that are already using Microsoft SQL Server for their database needs will likely find that the software’s integration services (SSIS) are adequate to meet their needs. It integrates easily with other Microsoft products and offers data quality and master data management features as well as data integration capabilities. Microsoft also offers a […]

Bottom Line: Organizations that use Oracle database software or other enterprise software will likely want to consider the Oracle Data Integrator. It integrates easily with other Oracle solutions and promises low total cost of ownership. It doesn’t have as many capabilities as some other data integration platforms, but those features are available with other Oracle […]

Bottom Line: Organizations that use other SAP software, including its ERP solutions and HANA platform, will likely want to investigate SAP Data Services. It offers both on-premise and cloud-based solutions. Gartner rates the company’s data integration capabilities very highly — it’s a high profile contender. Jump to: SAP Data Services Features Table Company Description: Headquartered […]