Robert Eve

Access to and analysis of complete, high-quality actionable information is the key to effective business decisions making. Data virtualization enables IT to provide business with the information it needs with greater agility and lower costs than traditional data integration approaches and technologies.   As a result, business units in every industry are pushing on IT to adopt data virtualization. How does data virtualization apply to your organization? How will you meet your industry-specific data virtualization needs? Will your data virtualization investments pay off? Data Virtualization Adoption Strategies In What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?, five data integration challenges that data virtualization was capable of solving were identified.  Understanding these challenges and solutions can help guide an enterprise's data virtualization adoption strategy ... (more)

Data Virtualization Best Practices

Driven by business demands for greater agility and lower IT costs, enterprise adoption of data virtualization has moved into the technology mainstream. With hundreds of organizations deploying data virtualization, a number of best practices have emerged. In compiling the ten case studies described in the recently published Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility, co-author Judith R. Davis and I identified five best practices common to these successful implementations. In this article, I will pass along the lessons these ten organi... (more)

How Data Virtualization Improves Business Agility – Part 2

Business Agility Requires Multiple Approaches Agile businesses create business agility through a combination of business decision agility, time-to-solution agility and resource agility. This article addresses how data virtualization delivers time-to-solution agility. Part 1 addressed business decision agility and Part 3 will address resource agility. Time-To-Solution Agility = Business Value When responding to new information needs, rapid time-to-solution is critically important and often results in significant bottom-line benefits. Proven, time and again across multiple industries,... (more)

How Data Virtualization Delivers Business Agility – Part 1

Enterprise adoption of data virtualization has accelerated along with a growing need for greater business agility. The close relationship of business agility and data virtualization was described in my recent Virtualization Magazine article, The Agile Business - Why Data Virtualization Is Needed. It can also be observed across hundreds of organizations and is clearly evident in the ten case studies described in the recently published Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility. Three Elements of Business Agility In their quest to b... (more)

What Is Your Strategy for Data Virtualization?

Data virtualization is a data integration approach used by innovative organizations to achieve business agility. Do you want to achieve similar gains, but are unsure where to apply data virtualization? There is no need to guess.  Follow the leaders down one or more of the five paths to data virtualization success. Five Popular Data Virtualization Usage Patterns Data virtualization is a versatile data integration solution that can be deployed to solve a wide range of data integration challenges.  Based on nearly ten years of successful implementations, several common usage patterns... (more)