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Distribution, Migration, and Repurposing Software Market Will Remain
Steady Over the Next Five Years
According to the latest research by IDC, the data distribution,
migration, and repurposing (DDMR) software market will continue
its positive growth curve over the 2002-2006 forecast period signifying
the continued demand for data integration solutions by enterprises.
"The DDMR market grew 11.3% to reach a healthy $1.03 billion
in 2001, but we will see markedly higher growth through 2006 when
it is expected to achieve $2.2 billion, said Susan Funke, research
manager for IDC’s Information and Data Management service.
We also found that the leading vendors in this market grew above
the average growth rate while some of the smaller, more established
vendors declined.
IDC’s current DDMR market definition incorporates five sub-markets:
data quality, data profiling, ETML (extract, transform, move, and
load), data replication and synchronization, and virtual database
management (DBMS) software. Furthermore, IDC recognizes that additional
markets are developing that include semantic mediation.
Key trends observed by IDC in each of these sub-markets include:
• Data quality is finally getting the attention it deserves
for being an integral part of data integration as corporations look
to reduce costs.
• Data profiling is emerging as the demands for interpreting
data from disparate information systems and mapping it into a common
format for easier re-use in applications has gained importance.
• Recent growth of data mining, business analytics, business
intelligence, and metadata management applications that have been
made available with ETML solutions is a sign of ETML’s importance
and relevancy in the market.
• Since September 11 events, disaster data recovery awareness
has increased among customers as data replication vendors have seen
their solutions take on new meaning and importance.
• Virtual databases will be a growth opportunity over the
forecast period as the demand for integrated access to dissimilar
databases evolves.
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