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TDWI Report: Achieving Greater Agility with Business Intelligence

Improving Speed and Flexibility for BI, Analytics, and Data Warehousing

TDWI Report: Achieving Greater Agility with Business Intelligence

It is an exciting time for organizations that have been frustrated with the slow pace of BI and DW development and concerned that the results are not delivering enough value and flexibility. Technology and development practices are evolving to support a world in which change, not stasis, is the constant. This report, from The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI), examines organizations’ experiences with agile methods and technologies and recommends best practices for improving business agility.

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Attivio: Unified Information Access on a Solid Search Base

Authored by IDC

IDC Attivio Unified Information Access Profile

IDC has published an in-depth profile of Attivio and the core functionality and differentiators of the Active Intelligence Engine. According to the report, “The AIE platform provides a foundation for building InfoApps, task-based, easy to use work environments that combine information access with collaboration, workflow, and knowledge bases. These work environments are designed to support a specific process such as business operations, marketing, customer support, sales, or publishing.  They hide the complexity of too many scattered applications and information sources beneath a well-designed user interface."

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Attivio’s Active Intelligence Engine Provides Unified Information Access Platform for SaaS Vendors

THINKStrategies Attivio Profile for SaaS VendorsAuthored by THINKStrategies

The profile by ThinkStrategies, a leading SaaS analyst firm, details how Attivio's UIA platform has become increasingly attractive to SaaS vendors because of the functional challenges of keeping pace with users' escalating data access requirements combined with the time-to-market mandates of intensifying competition within the SaaS/Cloud marketplace.

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Attivio focuses on total-data opportunity with AIE 3.0

451 Group Review of Attivio

Authored by The 451 Group

In this report, noted analyst firm The 451 Group reviews the new features of Attivio's Active Intelligence Engine Version 3.0. 451 cites several new features designed to make the integration and analysis of a combination of unstructured and structured data easier.


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Analytic Architectures - Approaches to Supporting Analytics Users and Workloads

Analytic Architectures: Approaches to Supporting Analytics Users and Workloads

Authored by Wayne Eckerson, BeyeNetwork

Wayne Eckerson, renowned BI authority, offers up some useful predictions on what highly effective BI will look like over the next ten years, as well as an action plan to get there in a major new BeyeNETWORK report – Analytic Architectures: Approaches to Supporting Analytics Users and Workloads.

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It's the Dawning of the Age of BI DBMS

Forrester Research: It's the Dawning of the Age of BI DBMSAuthored by Boris Evelson, Forrester Research

According to this just released report from Forrester, mainstream relational databases, originally designed for transaction processing and not analysis, are an awkward fit for BI. They require lots of tuning and customization and constant optimization - which is difficult, time-consuming, and costly.


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Unified Access to Information: Less Seeking, More Finding

IDC Unified Access to Information: Less Seeking, More Finding

Authored by Susan Feldman and Hadley Reynolds, IDC

According to a new report from IDC, applications built on unified information access platforms present their features in an easy-to-use environment that hides the complexity of the underlying technologies and data stores and helps workers make more informed decisions. This will be a rapid growth segment in the enterprise software space, reconfiguring both the traditional search and the traditional BI markets.

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Delivering Real-time Enterprise Information Integration for Unified Access

ESG Whitepaper Delivering Real-time Information Integration for Unified Information Access

Authored by Brian Babineau, Senior Consultant, Enterprise Strategy Group

Almost every line of business and support function is experiencing rapid change in their respective applications and data sources; more applications are being delivered via cloud or Software-as-a-Service; semi-structured applications such as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are being used for everything from content portals to file share replacements; and public content, thanks to social networking and rating sites, is often an influence when making business decisions. This paper examines how organizations must constantly think about new ways to integrate and enrich information, accounting for all the new data sources and the desire to interact with data in real time.

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Attivio: Unified Information Access at Cloud Scale for IntraLinks

IDC Report - Attivio: Unified Information Access at Cloud Scale for IntraLinks

Authored by Susan Feldman, Research Vice President, IDC

This IDC update describes how IntraLinks, a SaaS vendor for collaborative information exchange, chose and deployed Attivio Active Intelligence Engine (AIE), a unified information access platform, in order to upgrade its legacy search engine. This case study examines the challenges of providing information access in a SaaS-based model to multiple users and organizations. It describes how Attivio and IntraLinks solved the problems of differing user needs, multiple access rights models, multiple sources of information, and the dynamic nature of information access and use within enterprises today.

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451 Group Market Development Report: Attivio cranks core engine as it drives search-based apps business forward

451 Group Market Development Report: Attivio cranks core engine as it drives search-based apps business forward

Authored by Nick Patience, 451 Group

Attivio has released version 2.1 of the Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) as it strives to compete with larger enterprise search firms while also carving out a niche for itself as one of the main proponents of search-based applications – that is, applications that are built on top of a search engine, rather than solely a relational database (although they often work alongside a database).

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Enterprise Strategy Group Report - Today's Information Access Requirements Outpace Open Source Search Options

Enterprise Strategy Group Report - Today's Information Access Requirements Outpace Open Source Search Options

Authored by Brian Babineau, Senior Consultant, Enterprise Strategy Group

This paper examines the new information access functionality and administrative requirements — including enterprise concerns for scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance — while measuring the ability of current open source alternatives to meet these demands. ESG also investigates the financial aspects of open source search adoption to ensure organizations consider all costs of a solution, not just a license fee, when making their next investment.

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451 Group Impact Report - Attivio adds to its search story and gets sentimental

451 Group Impact Report - Attivio adds to its search story and gets sentimental

Authored by Nick Patience and Katey Wood, 451 Group

Attivio has the engineering pedigree to be a worthy FAST successor, now that FAST is part of Microsoft – indeed, it claims good replacement business in the OEM markets of both FAST and Autonomy. New capabilities in version 1.5 open up even more use cases for the product, including voice-of-the-customer and market research applications, publishing industry tools and e-discovery. But while other search companies are expanding into vertical search-based applications, Attivio has committed itself to not competing with its partners.

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IDC Vendor Spotlight - The Case for Unifying Information Access

IDC Vendor Spotlight - The Case for Unifying Information Access

Authored by Susan Feldman, Research Vice President, IDC

IDC believes that BI and search are converging in new products and technologies as demand for unified access to information escalates. This paper examines the features and capabilities of these newer search and information unification technologies and explains why they are so important to the businesses that need to mine the myriad of information stored throughout their organization. It also examines enterprise software vendor Attivio and the role that its next-generation information access platform, the Active Intelligence Engine (AIE), will have in this strategically significant market.

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