BARC Score Data Integration Platforms 2016
The market for DI tools is highly competitive, with some large international incumbents, many successful vendors with a track record spanning decades, and countless smaller specialists that approach DI challenges from a niche perspective. This report analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of all of the leading vendors in the Data Integration market as well as many smaller vendors that often have less visibility, but equally offer good value to their customers.
Data Integration initiatives always include more than just a set of tools. The technical architecture also includes data warehouses and data marts, Data Integration and Data Quality components, dictionaries, repositories, and many other technologies. More importantly, organizations should have a proper BI strategy that goes well beyond an architecture blueprint to include non-technical requirements, alignment with corporate strategy, organizational models, outcome-based priority settings, and a proper roadmap.
Still, when it comes to kicking off or expanding a Data Integration program, the initial focus lies almost always on the required toolsets. While this may not be the ideal starting point, at some stage a platform or product decision has to be made. This document will help with the selection process by evaluating the most commonly used product sets from the major vendor community.