Identity Resolution Still On the Rise
By Mike Shultz, Infoglide Software CEO
We’ve noted several times over the past couple of years how the market visibility of entity resolution has been evolving. Now the consolidation of the master data management (MDM) market is causing even more conjecture about the crucial role of this technology.
We’re continually on the lookout for the trends and opportunities that affect the identity resolution space. We’ve written about entity resolution moving into cloud computing, the growing use of entity resolution by state agencies, the crucial role that identity resolution plays in fusion centers, how it’s related to “social CRM”, and how it might be used in e-discovery.
A few days after IBM’s recent announcement about buying Initiate Systems and a little over a week after Informatica’s acquisition of Siperian, Wayne Eckerson at tdwi wrote an insightful article in which he noted that these acquisitions are about MDM, yet they are also about identity resolution:
“Siperian is well-known for its master data management (MDM) solution… Initiate, on the other hand, is well-known for its identity resolution hub… At this point, I need to cycle back to Siperian and point out that it, too, provides identity resolution capabilities. And I forgot to mention that Initiate also has some MDM capabilities. You could say that Siperian is mostly MDM, but with identity resolution and other capabilities, whereas Initiate is mostly about identity resolution, but with MDM and other capabilities.”
Considering IBM’s acquisition of Initiate Systems, along with Informatica’s purchase of Siperian shortly before that, plus its 2008 purchase of Identity Systems, it’s clear that IdentityResolutionDaily is going to have even more to write about this year than before!
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