2007/07/23

Business Objects Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Data Quality Tools Report

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According to Gartner, 'leaders' are vendors in the market who demonstrate strength across a complete range of data quality functionality, including profiling, parsing, standardization, matching, validation and enrichment. They exhibit a clear understanding and vision for where the market is headed, including recognition of non-customer data quality issues and the delivery of enterprise-level data quality implementations. Leaders have an established market presence, significant size and a multinational presence (directly or as a result of a parent company).

With its acquisition of Firstlogic Inc. and recent product release of BusinessObjects™ Data Quality XI Version 11.6, Business Objects now provides best-of-breed data quality solutions as part of its long-term strategy to offer customers a trusted foundation of solutions to enable enterprise information management (EIM). Business Objects data quality and data management solutions include a full spectrum of capabilities including data assessment and measurement, data cleansing, data enrichment, matching and consolidation, continuous monitoring and new addressing standardization and parsing options.

"Enterprise information management is a critical success factor for companies looking to create a single foundation of trusted business information," said Pascal Clement, vice president of EIM at Business Objects. "We are committed to delivering the industry's best data integration, data quality, and metadata management solutions as part of our complete portfolio of business intelligence offerings. We're pleased about our Leaders Quadrant position, and look forward to continuing to serve our customers with excellence."