Andrew WhiteTIBCO announced yesterday that it had acquired Netrics, a small, private vendor that deals with data quality (matching) technology. The press release stated a direct connection with Netrics value-add and TIBCO MDM, data governance and event-driven solutions.
Clearly data quality is applicable to many kinds of data integration and data management routines. MDM is one such (not sure there is such a thing as ‘data governance’ that sits outside of context, but that’s another idea for a blog) program and Netrics has previously partnered with several MDM vendors to provide matching capability as part of a broader data quality focus. Netrics focus had been entity resolution and matching, very common in party data oriented MDM programs (think MDM of Customer Data). I have not seen Netrics play as much a role in MDM programs related to “things” (think MDM of Product Data) though they did sport a very small number of clients in this area.
With Oracle recently acquiring SilverCreek (specialist focus on the product domain) this new acquisition highlights the dwindling set of DQ tools for MDM (and other interested) vendors to partner with, and/or acquire. The acquisition seems logical, and good, for packaged MDM (TIBCO offers one) though; but as the music dies down, who will be left standing without a partner….
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