The Innovator’s Dilemma in Two Minutes by Clayton Christiansen

Key Concepts - Disruptive Innovation Disruptive innovation, a term of art coined by Clayton Christensen, describes a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves ‘up market’, eventually displacing established competitors. http://www.claytonchristensen.com/ccvideo01.swf Professor Christensen’s 2-minute explanation of Disruptive Innovation An innovation that is disruptive allows a whole new population of consumersaccess to a product or service that was historically only accessible to consumers with a lot of money or a lot of skill.  Characteristics of disruptive businesses, at least in their initial stages, can include:  lower gross margins, smaller target markets, and simpler products and services that may not appear as attractive as existing solutions when compared against traditional performance metrics. Because companies tend to innovate faster than their customers’ lives change, most organizations eventually end up producing products or services that are too good, too expensive, and too inconvenient for many customers.  By only pursuing “sustaining innovations” that perpetuate what has historically helped them succeed, companies unwittingly open the door to “disruptive innovations”. Some examples of disruptive innovation include: Disruptor Cellular phones Community colleges Discount retailers Retail medical clinics Disruptee Fixed line telephony Four-year colleges Full-service department stores Traditional doctor’s offices   Persistent Metadata Server    .     Legacy ETL

QUEPLIX ANNOUNCES PINAKI MUKERJI JOINS QUEPLIX AS EVP AND CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER

Company Moves to Expand Executive Team With
Recognized Data Integration Leader

SUNNYVALE, Calif., September 13, 2011 – Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced that the company has named Pinaki Mukerji as the new executive vice president and chief product officer.  Pinaki Mukerji, a Silicon Valley veteran, brings many years of research, development and engineering experience to the Sunnyvale-based company.

As Chief Product Officer, Mukerji will be responsible for managing the Queplix engineering team and guiding the company’s technology development.  Mukerji joins Queplix from his most recent position as Senior Vice President, Platform Technology R&D at Informatica®, Inc. (INFA).  While at Informatica® Mukerji was one of the key driving forces behind many of their key product initiatives.

“Pinaki did a brilliant job at Informatica® and I expect he will do even more at Queplix,” said Mark Cashman, chief executive officer for Queplix. “There is no executive with more relevant experience than Pinaki.  Our platform delivers an open, business user ready, enterprise platform for data integration and data management.  Pinaki pioneered many early data integration successes with Informatica® and he is supremely qualified to lead our product vision forward.”

“The Queplix platform for cloud and on-premise is an industry first.  Business users are now empowered to bring projects from concept to deliverable without IT programmers,” said Mukerji.  “Advanced data virtualization is the future.  It is a game changing technology for the data integration world.  It reduces cost and risk and enables performance more than any other technology or architecture.  I am extremely pleased and excited to join the company at such a critical time in the company’s evolution.”

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About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.

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QUEPLIX AND FIRST HOSTED PARTNER TO DELIVER AUTOMATED, COST-EFFECTIVE DATA INTEGRATION SOLUTION IN UNITED KINGDOM

Partnership with UK NetSuite Provider Expands Queplix Footprint to Europe 

SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 10, 2011 – Queplix® Corp., a leader in data integration and data management, today announced that First Hosted Ltd. has joined the QueplixAdvantage™ partner program. First Hosted will participate as a value added reseller forQueCloud™ in the United Kingdom. QueCloud enables companies to securely integrate on-premise and cloud applications such as NetSuite®, Salesforce®, SAP®, and Oracle® applications with unprecedented speed and simplicity.

First Hosted, a NetSuite® solutions provider, is adding QueCloud to its portfolio of software solutions to help customers integrate business applications without incurring expensive consultant and IT fees. The increased business efficiency and reduced set-up costs provided by QueCloud will benefit users, particularly as they perform multiple integrations involving more than two applications.

“Up until now, companies such as those in third party logistics, would have to pay consultants’ fees spanning into many tens of thousands of dollars for integration with their customers’ business platforms, such as Oracle®, Peoplesoft® and SAP® for example,” said First Hosted managing director Andrew Peddie. “QueCloud is automated, quick to deploy and will easily configure common business applications such as Oracle and Salesforce with on-site applications and data like Google®, PeopleSoft® and SYBASE® at a fraction of the typical cost. Adding QueCloud to our range of software solutions allows us to help customers avoid the pain, problems and high cost associated with conventional data integration.”

“We are extremely pleased to partner with a UK distributor who has a real understanding of the best practices to cost-effectively integrate enterprise and cloud-based applications,” said Mark Cashman, CEO of Queplix. “Our new relationship brings advantage for both organizations as cloud computing gains widespread adoption due to the operational and cost efficiencies it affords. We look forward to a long and productive partnership with First Hosted.”

The partnership extends Queplix’s presence into Europe and further advances delivery of its technology on a worldwide scale.

“The relationship with First Hosted further validates our advanced data virtualization technology – the horsepower behind our data integration and management solutions,” added Cashman. “We expect to see continued Advantage partner programparticipation and expansion as companies look to solve their data integration problems more effectively and efficiently. Value added resellers are a very important part of our strategy and we will continue to recruit the industry leaders on a global basis.”

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About First Hosted 
First Hosted Ltd is a NetSuite, NetSuite CRM provider and consultancy which offers operational and software systems advice, consultancy, implementation, training and support to organizations to support and improve performance and growth in a way not possible with conventional techniques. First Hosted’s team of business experts provide simple advice to businesses on the best IT maintenance free internet-based business applications for them. Services also include aftercare, implementation, web integration, e-marketing and training. For more information please visithttp://www.firsthosted.co.uk.

About Queplix Corp.
Queplix™ is a leader in data integration and data management. Our products enable customers to securely integrate, deploy and manage cloud and on-premise applications and data with speed, simplicity and automation. Uniquely, no programming or SQL is required. Our data virtualization and powerful data management automatically harmonize the data between applications. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings, a rapid return on investment and the strategic benefits of true data mobility. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.
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Application Software Blade™ for Oracle® E-Business Suite 12.1

The Automated Approach to Data Integration

See The Video – Integrate Oracle E-Business Suite With Anything

Queplix® has created a highly automated, fast and easy approach for integrating Oracle® E-Business Suite with other on-premise and cloud based applications.  Queplix Application Software Blades leverage the power of advanced data virtualization to lower your total cost of ownership, speed implementation and lower risk.  The system is designed for a business user – you don’t need to be an SQL programmer.  Absolutely no SQL is required. Once data is integrated it remains easily accessible, providing you have requisite security, to any number of additional applications. Our Application Software Blades provide complete connectivity, data flow, security, and automation for the integration process – check boxes, configure and go.

Supported Capability for Oracle® E-Business Suite 12.1

There are eleven Oracle® Applications that can be integrated using our Application Software Blades.  These include:

• Oracle® Marketing and Sales Application
• Oracle® Channel Revenue Management Application
• Oracle® Order Management Application
• Oracle® Logistics Application
• Oracle® Procurement Application
• Oracle® Manufacturing Application
• Oracle® Service Application
• Oracle® Projects Application
• Oracle® Financials Application
• Oracle® Human Resources Application
• Oracle® Agile® Application – see our separate webpage on our Application Software Blade for Agile®

Data and Application Migration

Queplix Virtual Data Manager or QueCloud can use these Application Software Blades to enable data migration in any direction.  Our Virtual Migration Manager is part of every one of on-premise systems and standard in our QueCloud.  Virtual Migration Manager is highly automated, fast and easy to deploy.  Find out why consultants and software professionals worldwide use Virtual Migration Manager to move data out of legacy systems and into new applications.

Build Your Data Warehouse

Queplix Virtual Data Manager or QueCloud can use these Application Software Blades to help you build out your Data Warehouse much faster than using legacy toolsets like ETL or EII.  Your return on investment for using the power of advanced data virtualization will save 75% or more of your time and efforts to merge various data sets into your Data Warehouse.

Download the Application Software Blade for Oracle® datasheet and learn more.

Learn more about Oracle® E-Business Suite.

Our professional services team can help you with any implementation – reduce your expense by 75% or more.

DATA INTEGRATION: Top 5 Best Practices

The explosion in information technology tools and capability has accelerated. Our information technology environment is moving at absolute light-speed. Yet the back of data integration is broken. 90% of the customers are using 20 year old ETL technology designed to move batch files into the data warehouse at 1 am. It is a manual process. Worst of all, is that some vendors have even put this 20 year old technology in their newly minted 1 year old cloud. Who wants 20 year old technology in a 1 year old cloud?

To add insult to injury, data quality is … “another product.” I humbly submit that without resolving data quality issues and providing for their ongoing maintenance you cannot integrate even two applications, load your data warehouse, consider a future Virtual MDM deployment.

The cause of this is simple. Look at the revenue mix for the two major vendors that control the market for large enterprise. Their business is about professional services – not software tools. They are in business to sell you, their customer, as much professional services at the highest rates you can imagine. Legacy ETL technology is a bonanza to a company that sells your company services by the hour.

Even worse, they don’t offer you the right mix of services and technology. The integration was done to specification but it doesn’t seem to work. I guess we’ll just have to sell you additional consulting to do the data quality clean-up.

The five best practices in data integration break this model. We turn the model upside down. By using advanced data virtualization, and pushing back at the legacy monopoly attached to your wallet, you can reduce your costs and speed your time to implementation.

BEST PRACTICE #1: Use an Automated Metadata Discovery Tool and Data Dictionary. IEEE did a seminal study recently in the area of data integration to understand how the time was allocated. Over 40%+ of the time in any data integration project is spent on discovery. What is the structure of the data? Which field corresponds to others so that we can identify the source record of truth and harmonize it over to the target? Advanced data virtualization can completely automate the discovery of data structures, provides insight into how things relate (semantics) and then automates the integration between the systems. All of this is automated and easy to deploy. You will be able to reduce your time, in this project phase alone, by 75% or more because you use a metadata discovery tool.

BEST PRACTICE #2: Data Quality Must Be Integrated At Every Step in Your Project. Data quality is an essential project component for a small, medium or large company. Not a separate project. Advanced data virtualization technology provides full data quality tool sets, fully automated, with the product. It is the starting point to any data integration, the core to best practices implementation and the ongoing steady hand that keep your data harmonization working into the future. Without good data quality, each data harmonization will reject hundreds to thousands of records that “don’t synchronize.” And this creates tons of additional work.

BEST PRACTICE #3: Understand Your Needs Versus Vendor Architecture. “Tomorrow never comes” is not the right way to deploy critical applications that serve your business. Advanced data virtualization brings a hub and spoke architecture that easily extends and adds the next application to your integration architecture. This is in sharp contrast to the pipe (or pipe and hub for mdm) architectures you must assemble with ETL.

BEST PRACTICE #4: Bring in Tools Suitable For Business Users – No Programming Required. Advanced data virtualization enables your business user to point, click and select to build out integrations. Data transformations between systems come together using a formula builder very similar to Microsoft® Excel® – highly intuitive and obvious. This works the same with relational data, objects, complex API’s with products like SAP®, XML and even NoSQL data sources. One simple object framework designed to work with everything – fast, easy and automated.

BEST PRACTICE #5: Data Enrichment is Easy – Automate It For Business Benefit. Today products like D&B360® and others offer clean data sources for many elements of your important customer data. Yet most of our customers are still manually correcting data at the time of data entry in the ERP system, and then hoping that the support and SFA systems catch up. There is a better way – you can harmonize data directly with a source of data enrichment using business rules. This improves business process and provides strong ROI.

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Analysis of Data Integration Technologies — A New Whitepaper

Introduction
Rapid technology change and innovation is an expected component of modern life. This is self-evident today with the feverish pace of development within such sub markets as
smart phones and tablets. It is interesting to note, however, that some technology areas experience a perception within the public mind (and within target business customers
specifically) of having achieved a “plateau of maturity”which neither requires nor offers opportunity for continued innovation.

Perhaps surprisingly, one such area is within data integration
technologies. The reasons why this is surprising include
the fact that the necessity for data integration continually
presents itself for customers and enterprises of all types and
sizes as well as the fact that due to a plethora of platforms
and systems which are in use today (both old and new), this
area’s complexity increases constantly.

As Gartner stated in their 2010 “Magic Quadrant for Data
Integration Tools” report: “Market conditions favor offerings
with low costs and rapid time to value, but buyers that see
data integration as strategic also seek rich capabilities to fuel
their information infrastructure.

Complete Whitepaper Here:  http://www.idealnetinc.com/IdealNet_Analysis_of_Data_Integration_Technologies.pdf

Twleve Reasons

CORAID DEPLOYS QUEPLIX DATA VIRTUALIZATION TO INTEGRATE CUSTOMER DATA ACROSS SALESFORCE AND NETSUITE

Virtual Data Manager Ensures Data Consistency Between Applications to Enhance Salesforce Automation, Enterprise Resource Managment, and Customer Relationship Management

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 6, 2011 – Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data virtualization, today announced that Coraid® Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, has deployed Queplix Virtual Data Manager™ to synchronize critical customer data across Salesforce® and Netsuite® for enhancement of its salesforce automation, enterprise resource management and customer relationship management (CRM) efforts. This synchronization ensures that all Coraid users are consistently working with the best possible data about their most valuable resource – their customers – whether they are using Salesforce or Netsuite.

“Integration between these two cloud-based business applications is an essential part of day-to-day operations at Coraid. It’s imperative that users can gain access to the most correct, up-to-date information,” said Josh Leslie, vice president of North American sales at Coraid. “We had used an alternate cloud integration technology, but it wasn’t able to deliver the data quality and business-rule implementation we needed. Queplix Virtual Data Manager not only solved the problem of consistent data but also was the only solution we found that provides a clear view to the business rules that govern Coraid’s internal processes. We also will be changing and improving business process by automating links into Dun and Bradstreet for data quality.”

Queplix Virtual Data Manager streamlines and simplifies the process of synchronizing data across different platforms through Data Harmonization™ with absolutely no SQL required. Legacy solutions that involve multiple steps such as topology and data schema analysis, and that rely on ETL and ‘wire frame’ diagram tools, make data integration a complex and costly process.

In contrast, the Queplix architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades™ that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. There, the data is automatically harmonized with other systems. The initial setup and ongoing Data Harmonization ensure that Coraid users have the same consistent view of information from both Salesforce and Netsuite. Queplix offers the only integration solution that uses the power of data virtualization, and does not require SQL or coding. This made it easy for the Coraid team to participate in the implementation process, and Queplix professional services delivered the turnkey implementation to Coraid on time and on budget.

“Enterprises today face a very real problem when it comes to ensuring that all users have access to consistent, up-to-date information, because the same data may be stored in and used by different systems,” said Julie Lockner, vice president and senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “Solutions such as Queplix data virtualization, that provide an easier, more cost-effective way to achieve data consistency across applications, offer an attractive alternative to traditional ETL tools.”

“Companies like Coraid want to focus on their business, not on the difficulties of getting their systems to work the way they need them to,” said Mark Cashman, CEO, Queplix. “Our Virtual Data Manager removes a major obstacle to data integration, enabling customers to achieve integration quickly and at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions.”

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Resource library: For more information about data virtualization and application integration, visit Queplix Resource Library.

About Queplix Corp.
Queplix is a leader in data virtualization. Data virtualization enables our customers to automatically and securely integrate cloud, SaaS and on-premise applications and data with speed and simplicity. Uniquely, Queplix brings powerful data management to automatically harmonize the integrated applications and data for higher business value. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings and rapid return on investment. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.

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Data Integration Without ETL — Integrating Netsuite® and SalesForce®: A Case Study

Friday Mar 11, 2011 – 10 am PST / 1 pm EST.  Data Integration Without ETL.  Integrating Netsuite® with Salesforce® – A Case Study Where We Successfully Replaced a Leading “Cloud Integration” Vendor with CloudETL™.

* Understand how CloudETL™ replaced a failed installation by a “leading cloud integration vendor…”
* Understand the detailed deployment, step-by-step implementation, business process issues, quality issues and operational issues.
* Nothing but the facts.  The facts shall set you free!
* Never use wire diagrams or cumbersome non-reusable templates again.
* Understand the benefits, advantages and ease-of-use that CloudETL™, VirtualETL™ and Virtual Data Manager™ provide.



Is ETL Dead?

Queplix Webinar: Thinking of ETL? Don’t Do It. Find out Why

03.02.2011– Traditional ETL is accepted as the defacto method for data integration, data mart and data warehouse loading, and very important for business functions such as business intelligence. Application and data integration teams have found no other acceptable alternatives. Yet there remain very significant challenges with legacy ETL tools. Misaligned expectations, missed project implementation dates, and misfired budgets are the high price many organizations pay due to the considerable complexities and operational problems associated with today’s ETL. Perhaps front and center, is the notion that the use of ETL is more about professional services than anything else. Most of the cost is in the set-up and ongoing maintenance.

ETL as a legacy technology, is focused solely on SQL. New applications such as Salesforce.com®, Netsuite®, Taleo®, RightNow® and many others are cloud based and object oriented and do not fit easily into the legacy paradigm. So bridging the gap to cloud applications is difficult and time consuming. It is perhaps even worse to connect to major legacy applications such as SAP® – the complexity of the API requires special consulting resources to support the ETL programming that must be done. Finally, most IT executives and CFOs have always been concerned that ETL is very much a “black box” technology – you cannot easily understand or audit the internal workings.

On Friday, March 4th, Queplix™ Corp. (www.queplix.com) will host a webinar exploring advanced data virtualization technologies that eliminate these complexities and offer an alternative approach to the legacy ETL model that is holding today’s enterprises hostage. The webinar will examine advanced data virtualization and automation processes that can supercharge ETL efforts and cut implementation time by 75% or more. ETL teams find advanced data virtualization in products such as VirtualETL™ and CloudETL™ can reduce implementation time by 75% or more and easily bridge the gap to the object and XML world.

For more information visit:  http://www.queplix.com/newsandevents/events.html