Enterprise Strategy Group Report “Delivering Real-time Enterprise Information Integration for Unified Access"

Monday, November 8, 2010 - Company Release

New whitepaper explores generating revenue, improving client satisfaction, streamlining operations and decision making and controlling costs with unified information access

Attivio, Inc. today announced the availability of a whitepaper by Enterprise Strategy Group titled, "Delivering Real-time Enterprise Information Integration for Unified Access." Published in October 2010 the paper explains the value of information integration and unification processes for better-informed decision making.

According to the report, information integration strategies and evaluation of supporting platforms should be perpetual IT projects as part of continuous improvement goals. These initiatives reflect the commitment and creativity of an organization to use information as an asset. Further, there is demonstrable value in connecting multiple disparate data sources: better-informed decisions can be made and more precise actions can be taken if data sources are correlated.

"Customers want unified information access," commented the study's author, Brian Babineau, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "A foundational element of solid integration is a single index for all data sources, which allows data to be connected without ‘copy' or ‘move' processes. Aside from the obvious business benefits, integrating information and unifying its access simplifies operations because, with the right solution, both can be accomplished in a single platform. This reduces the complexity of having to manage and maintain several disparate products that each performs a specific data integration function."

The evolution in the wealth and volume of content and data, including new applications and data sources, cloud computing, SaaS, email, SharePoint and public content, has made information integration even more important than ever. Organizations must constantly think about new ways to connect and enrich all these sources and address the increasing need to interact with data in real-time. In this paper, Babineau explores information integration strategies that seek to both connect more information and unify its access. With a new mindset that includes supporting more content types and facilitating real-time interaction and analysis, organizations will empower knowledge workers with the right information.

"We are at a point where organizations are working with so many content and data sources, they need to understand the value and competitive advantage that information integration and unified access can bring," said Ali Riaz, CEO of Attivio. "The details provided by ESG in this whitepaper will educate readers on appropriate strategies that enable better decision making they can measure in new revenue, improved productivity and more efficient business processes."

To download the free paper, please click here.