Data Management

Umbrella Technology Focus:

Data Management Infrastructure Planning, building, integrating, and optimizing data management infrastructure, addressing the full data life cycle and both traditional (e.g., on-premises, database management system-based) and emerging (e.g. data management, software-as-a-service ) architectures.

Primary Areas of Focus for 2008

Burton Group believes the industry is in the midst of a renaissance in data management. With increasingly powerful database management systems (DBMSs), rapid expansion in XML data management, and business intelligence tools now compelling for all information workers, enterprises have unprecedented opportunities to advance business performance through improved data management. Burton Group Data Management Strategies (DMS) coverage area helps enterprises understand and exploit these new data management opportunities, focusing on the following topic areas:

Business intelligence (BI): BI techniques and tools are expanding from specialized (and expensive) to democratized (and cost-effectively available to all information workers). BI focus areas for 2008 include data mining, data warehousing, enterprise reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), and real-time data analytics.

Data management: With increasing competitive pressures and expanding regulatory requirements, data management is more mission-critical than ever. Focus areas for 2008 include data classification, data enrichment, data integration, data modeling techniques and tools, data quality, data replication/synchronization, data security, data services, integrating structured and unstructured data, master data management (MDM), metadata management, and XML data management.

Database management: The enterprise infrastructure role for DBMSs is rapidly expanding, going far beyond basic structured data to include XML content and a variety of non-traditional data models. Focus areas for 2008 include extended relational DBMSs, XML data management in DBMSs, specialized DBMS models (such as object and streaming database servers), and the role of DBMSs within broader superplatform architectures.

Technologies and standards: Real and de facto standards are helping to streamline data management and integration. Focus areas for 2008 include: Atom Publishing Protocol, business domain models such as HL7 and XBRL, RELAX NG, REST, Schematron, SQL, the Semantic Web, XForms, XML, XML Schema, XPath, XQuery, and XSLT.