Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-4-25
[Post from Infoglide Software] Identity Resolution Market “on the Rise”
“In case you missed it, leading data quality vendor Informatica announced last week that they are acquiring Identity Systems from its parent Nokia for approximately $85M in cash, validating a recent prediction by Gartner analyst Mark Beyer that “entity resolution and analysis” (aka Identity Resolution) products provide valuable benefits to user organizations, are part of a market space that’s “on the rise,” and will move fairly rapidly through the hype cycle to implementation.”
IT-Director.com: Informatica to acquire Identity Systems
“Of course the other point is that this gives Informatica a distinct lead in this area over everybody else in the data quality space (Trillium, Dataflux, SAP et al) with the exception of IBM. Which leaves one final question: who is going to buy Infoglide?”
PogoWasRight.org: Wacky Canadians Still Believe in Privacy (commentary)
“Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff caused a little ruckus up north a couple weeks ago as he was pushing his plan to share databases of international air travelers’ fingerprints with the Canadians, Brits and Aussies.”
Content Matters: Informatica Acquires Identity Systems
“Identity Systems is among the leaders in the identity resolution space, competing against IBM, which acquired Language Analysis Systems (LAS) and System Research & Development (SRD), and Austin-based Infoglide Software.”
Kotaku: Man Swaps Garbage Filled 360 For Cash
“Wal-Mart has long been known for its liberal return policy, but one Xbox 360 owner took it too far.”
Gartner: Informatica Expands Data Quality With Identity Systems Buy
“Identity Systems’ tools can conduct cross-language matching — for example, matching ‘Robert’ in English with the Chinese character equivalent. Matching has long been a part of data quality management, but Informatica will now be able to offer other options beyond traditional matching approaches, which support many marketing, sales support, fraud detection and intelligence applications. This will be of interest to master data management (MDM) and business intelligence program strategists.”
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