The IT landscape is always shifting and being contoured by external market forces and internal industry initiatives. New requirements for data management and analysis emerge and, in turn, fresh approaches and technologies are developed. Vendors grow and mature and sometimes outstrip others, while new start-ups take root. Against this changing backdrop, each year, Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine presents a list of 100 companies that matter in data, compelling us to pause and reflect on the market changes taking place.
Its latest annual issue cites these major changes in the market:
* The emergence of NoSQL and the value in SQL as a bridge from RDBs.
* Overcoming data silos with integration and data quality initiatives.
* The growing use of cloud along with on-premises approaches.
* More sophisticated security techniques to address new threats to enterprise data.
DBTA counted IRI among the companies best addressing these changes by: processing MongoDB data, ingesting MarkLogic data, and preparing data for Cassandra. IRI Voracity speeds data integration, improves data quality, leverages Hadoop, and will run in the cloud soon. Its data governance capabilities, including data discovery, masking, subsetting, and synthesis, protect PII in compliance and devops initiatives.
SPI, the African distributor for utility software products and services to the Open Systems segment of the IT industry is the sole Sub-Saharan Africa distributor for USA-based Innovative Routines (IRI).
For further information, please contact Chris Anderson at tel. +27 11 234 1560; fax +27 11 234 1387; e-mail chris@spi.co.za
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IRI, the CoSort Company
Founded in 1978, IRI develops high-performance software for managing and protecting data in legacy migration, DW/BI and development environments. IRI products include Voracity (data discovery, integration, migration, governance, and analytics); CoSort (transformation and reporting); FACT (Fast Extract for VLDBs); NextForm (data and DB conversion); FieldShield and CellShield (data masking); and, RowGen (test data synthesis).
SPI
SPI is a company that provides utility software products and services to the Open Systems segment of the IT industry. It is the sole Sub-Saharan Africa distributor for US-based Innovative Routines; US-based Help/Systems; US-based Linoma Software; France-based Esker; and, UK-based OpusVL (ex-Xi Software). SPI also develops some of its own software utilities to complement the overseas products that it distributes.
SPI has a wide and varied customer base and includes organisations such as Aspen Pharmacare, Johannesburg Municipality, University of Johannesburg, MMI Holdings, Nampak, National Brands, Stellenbosch University and Unisa.
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