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So have you seen the latest headline about information on demand?
IBM said Thursday February 16th 2006 that it will invest $1 billion over the next three years on information-management products and services devoted to tasks as varied as spotting criminals and serving banking customers better.
So what does that mean to me and you?
IBM, Oracle, SAP and other information management vendors see this technology as a means to store, augment and consolidate structured and unstructured data from heterogeneous locations. RDM and MDM solutions ensure cross-system data consistency in much the same manner as EII — through a metadata layer, virtual views and federated querying. RDM and MDM are generally focused on product content management and cross-media catalog publishing and access via the Web.
So hold on to you hats people, watch as all the technology giants run around merging and acquiring companies left and right trying to claim themselves as the "Information on Demand" company to handle all of your business needs.
IBM expands on demand portfolio with Meiosys buy.
I would stand back and take a deep breath on this one, I would not allow myself to get caught up in techie buzzwords until this comes full circle, why?
Because if history shows us anything it is that it repeats itself and sometimes the answers are already right in front of us.
Good luck and have a Happy Information on Demand Day! :)
