Evaluate

Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• What to know about the Data3Sixty cloud-based data governance platform

  With Data3Sixty's cloud-based grow-as-you-go subscription model, organizations don't have to invest in a major data governance implementation or worry about complex upgrades. Continue Reading

• Alation Data Catalog helps provide collaborative data governance

  Alation Data Catalog provides business analysts and data stewards with search and discovery, governance and collaboration functionality, and automates many data governance tasks. Continue Reading

• Build vs. buy equation changes, as open source big data tools surge

  The build vs. buy decision is a fluid one, as open source big data tools proliferate. This edition of the Talking Data podcast looks at the new quandary. Continue Reading

• What you should know about Collibra Data Governance Center

  Collibra Data Governance Center is a repository- and workflow-oriented data governance platform that also offers features for data management and data stewardship. Continue Reading

• How to narrow down your choices for buying a data governance tool

  Evaluating and selecting a data governance tool depends on not only features and functionality, but also how you will use the tool to add value to your organization. Continue Reading

• Up-and-coming data engineers complement entrenched data scientists

  Even before the hot title of data scientist was fully defined, a complementary role began to bubble up: data engineer. Here's how they differ and why companies may need one, the other or both.Continue Reading

• Enterprise business analytics boosts BI's brainpower

  Social media channels, web applications, sales and marketing systems and other sources are bursting with endless flows of consumer information pouring into corporate data reservoirs. The amount of data created annually, reports IDC, will reach a ...Continue Reading

• Business intelligence app integration, self-service deemed must-haves

  Businesses must either disrupt or be disrupted. One way to do the former is to integrate sales intelligence apps and make them self-service. Sound difficult? It doesn't have to be.Continue Reading

• Determine which database performance tools best mitigate bottlenecks

  This buyer's guide provides detailed insight to help you determine if your organization could benefit from a database performance tool and how to navigate the tool-buying process.Continue Reading

• What to know about Information Builders' Omni-Gen data governance tool

  Omni-Gen from Information Builders features a variety of tools for enterprise data management, data governance and data best practices, all in one centralized package.Continue Reading

• Navigate the data integration product buying process

  The key to selecting a data integration product is to pick the tool that best meets your organization's needs -- not the one with the most features.Continue Reading

• An overview of Quest's database performance management tools

  DBAs can use the Quest Toad product suite for managing database structural performance, and Quest Foglight to proactively monitor SQL, storage and virtualization performance.Continue Reading

• A look inside the SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

  SolarWinds provides DBAs and application teams with a database performance monitoring and analysis tool via a Java application that runs on a dedicated Windows, Unix or Linux server.Continue Reading

• Inside IBM's Data Server Manager and other database performance tools

  IBM offers several products and platforms to help DBAs proactively monitor, manage and optimize the performance of DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows databases.Continue Reading

• A look at the features of the SAS Data Management unified platform

  SAS Data Management offers a suite of tools for handling access to data on legacy systems and Hadoop, as well as for integrating and cleansing data on-premises and in the cloud.Continue Reading