Sophisticated modern businesses like banks and insurers are data rich. Data is fundamental to their business effectiveness and efficiency.

However, data is not just relevant to the business processes that create it. Many classes of data are essential outside of their main business purpose. This may be for internal reporting and analysis, for use by…

Gartner released their Magic Quadrant for operational database management systems. As expected the leaders in this market space in terms of completeness and execution are the well-established solutions such as Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.

Although the robust and well-established solutions are still the preferred choice in the market, Gartner indicates that the open-source solutions are making way into the market as well. It is predicted that by 2018 more than 70%…