Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management (see Note 1) of Customer Data Solutions provides insight into the portion of the packaged master data management (MDM) solution market that focuses on how organizations master and share a "single version" of customer data with multiple views of it across the organization. Achieving a "single version" of master data is a key initiative for many...

The SEG market is mature. The penetration rate of commercial SEG solutions is close to 100% of enterprises. Buyers are becoming more price-sensitive; 80% of recently surveyed reference customers said that price was important or very important in their next SEG purchase (see Note 1). The market growth rate has leveled off, and there are no significant market entrants or acquisitions — all classi...

This research provides guidance for companies that are investing in management software for physical assets and equipment, and it updates the 2010 "Magic Quadrant for Delivery Utility Enterprise Asset Management." We evaluated enterprise asset management (EAM) products for power generation in the "Magic Quadrant for Power Generation Enterprise Asset Management Software," with a greater focus on...

the present study was undertaken to investigate the beneficial effects of widely-prescribed lipid lowering drugs, pitavastatin, atorvastatin and simvastatin 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme-a (hmg-coa) reductase inhibitors in cognitive dysfunctions of mice. intra-cerebroventricular (icv)-streptozocin-(stz)- and high-fat diet (hfd)-induced amnesia served as interoceptive memory models where a...

Corporate performance management (CPM) applications are primarily used by the office of finance to support the core financial processes of consolidation, reporting and budgeting; however, they're increasingly being used outside of corporate finance to help link corporate and operational plans, to provide wider access to financial analytics, and to help develop strategies that deliver in regard ...

Open Text’s acquisition of Vignette in July 2009 and Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun Microsystems continue the horizontal portal market’s trend toward vendor consolidation. Most new horizontal portal projects are being launched based on a narrowing list of horizontal portal vendors. Some open-source horizontal portal and portal-as-a-service options provide alternatives for enterprises unwil...

Market Definition/Description Enterprise search technology relates users' queries to many different kinds of information in order to identify relevant, contextualized information and, in the process, perform light analysis. Vendors in the enterprise search market provide the means to discover information, index it, and combine it with information derived from live queries in order to help peopl...

In this paper we investigate the shaping and effects of a simple industry analysis tool – the Magic Quadrant – so as to demonstrate it has virtues not readily appreciated by social scientists interested in the relationship between technology and markets, objects and organisation. These are its role in facilitating ‘comparison’ between vendors in the market for information and communication tech...