Vendor Landscape Plus: Data Integration Tools

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Informatica PowerCenter

InfoSphere Information Server

BusinessObjects Data

Data Integrator

Integration Solutions

Data Integrator

SQL Server Integration Services

DataFlux

What is a Value Score?

The Value Score indexes each vendor’s product offering and business strength relative to their price point. It does not indicate vendor ranking.

Vendors that score high offer more bang for the buck (e.g. features, usability, stability, etc.) than the average vendor, while the inverse is true for those that score lower.

Price-conscious enterprises may wish to give the Value Score more consideration than those who are more focused on specific vendor/product attributes.

Weight: You can adjust the weight to what is more important to you.

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When both vendor and product weightings are equal to exactly 100%, your custom shortlist will be generated.

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Vendor

Product

Viability

Vendor is profitable, knowledgeable, and will be around for the long-term.

Strategy

Vendor is committed to the space and has a future product and portfolio roadmap.

Reach

Vendor offers global coverage and is able to sell and provide post-sales support.

Channel

Vendor channel strategy is appropriate and the channels themselves are strong.

Total

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Features

The solution provides basic and advanced feature/functionality.

Usability

The solutions dashboard and reporting tool are intuitive and easy to use.

Affordability

The five year TCO of the solution is economical.

Architecture

The delivery method of the solution aligns with what is expected within the space.

Total

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What matters more, the vendor score or the product score? As you weigh the importance, we will generate the vendor shortlist to match your needs.

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Informatica

Informatica PowerCenter
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IBM

InfoSphere Information Server
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SAP

BusinessObjects Data
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Pervasive

Data Integrator
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Talend

Integration Solutions
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Oracle

Data Integrator
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Microsoft

SQL Server Integration Services
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SAS

DataFlux
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What is a shortlist?
A shortlist is a personalized list of vendors based on the criteria above.

Your shortlist offers more information about vendor's strengths, weaknesses, price-points, etc, and ranks them according to your needs.

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Your Challenge

Current integrations are a series of hand-coded, point-to-point integrations with little consistency on the tool or approach used.
Multiple tools and approaches are costly in terms of licensing, skill development, maintenance, and longer project time lines, but it's difficult to justify the cost of a data integration tool.
This solution set will help quantify the cost of internal development, costs of building vs. buying data integration tools, and help select the right tool.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

At some point data integration tools become required for business growth. They improve operations, marketing, and customer experience.
Data integration tools typically reduce development times by 60-75% and improve efficiency and operational success. If a tool can take one developer off your payroll, it has probably paid for itself.
Choose your solution very carefully as products evaluated offer a tremendous range of functionality and target vastly different needs. Tool effectiveness is highly vendor-dependent as many tools don’t actually reduce necessary hand-coding.
Platform standardization doesn’t lock you in with that vendor for tools; looking elsewhere is often more cost-effective.
Prioritize integration; start with the mission critical, especially legacy systems.

Impact and Result

Data integration tools decimate workloads; thirty-day processes can be done in twenty minutes!
On completion of the work outlined in this solution set, you will be able to make a rational and informed vendor selection for a data integration solution, and dramatically improve your integration process.

Get to Action

Evaluate data integration needs and tools
Pick the best enterprise data integration solution.
- Vendor Landscape Plus Storyboard: Data Integration Tools
Determine if the enterprise could benefit from DI tools
Continue with selection process or DIY.
- Data Integration Tool Readiness Assessment
Use requirements to set evaluation priorities
Develop a custom shortlist based on the criteria most important to the enterprise.
- Data Integration Tool Vendor Shortlist
Identify vendors and solicit information
Harvest apples-to-apples comparisons of DI tools.
- Data Integration Solution RFP Template
Evaluate RFP responses to establish a shortlist
Move forward with only applicable solutions.
- Data Integration Solution Evaluation & RFP Response Tool
Test potential DI solutions
Identify the solutions that best meet enterprise needs.
- Data Integration Vendor Demonstration Script

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Develop a Business Process Management (BPM) Strategy

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