What feature are considered best of breed?:
- Good data quality
- proper metadata management
- agile SOA
- Performance tuning
What are our needs:
- Multi-domain support - (Informatica, Orchestra, Riversand is .Net only, TIBCO) - Oracle is not multi-domain
- Data modeling
- Governance models
- Integration focused vs. information management
- Synchronization
Most vendors are built for a single data domain - CRM or Product.
- We would need to break new ground with educational data.
Open Source vendors:
- Akeneo - Not in gartner quadrant. Not multi-domain. Product focused.
- Pimcore - not in gartner quadrant. Not multi-domain. Product & Content Management focused.
- Talend - not in Gartner Quadrant at all
Feedback from users:
- significant time and expense involved.
Interesting stuff:
- Kettle ETL (open source)
- DataCleaner (commercial open source) for data quality