01/24/2006

Ipedo, a provider of enterprise information integration software, today announced the release of its 2005 Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Survey results, which show increasing synergy between EII and Web Services, especially among organizations that have successfully deployed multiple EII applications. The survey was co-sponsored by ebizQ, a business integration web site, and Decideo, a European on-line business intelligence community.

The survey polled more than 170 leading users of data integration technologies, including CIOs, enterprise architects, vice presidents of IT, and development managers. The respondents worked in a wide variety of industries including financial services, energy, manufacturing, insurance, technology, defense, retail, IT services, consulting, and government.

The main reasons why companies are embracing EII are to access disparate information more easily (49%), to complement other data integration approaches (37%), and to facilitate migration to service oriented architectures (SOA) (30%).

"2005 was a big year for EII, both in the number of deployments and size of each individual implementation" said Nick Zhang, CEO of Ipedo. "This study demonstrates that EII has emerged as a key component of major enterprise IT initiatives, such as Web Services and business intelligence, across a wide range of industries of all sizes."

The second annual EII Survey included questions focused on how and why organizations use integrated information, the number and composition of data sources in EII projects, and details about EII implementations. Some highlights of the study include:

• Expert EII Users Embrace Web Services: A segment of EII users is emerging that has deployed multiple EII applications. This group has been much more aggressive than other EII users in using Web Services, with 63% using a Web Service as a data source in their EII projects and 53% publishing their combined information as a Web Service.



• EII Complements Other Data Integration Efforts: Almost half (47%) the people who have deployed multiple EII applications use EII in conjunction with other data integration approaches such as ETL or EAI. This shows growing acceptance of EII as one of several core integration technologies available to IT professionals.



• EII Feeds Business Intelligence Applications: Business intelligence was the most popular destination for integrated information with 58% of all respondents mentioning Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, MicroStrategy, or other BI tools. Web-based applications were the second most popular destination with 47%, followed by Web Services with 42%.

Report Access

For a summary report on the survey results that describes EII projects, EII data sources, and EII implementations, please visit http://www.ipedo.com/surveyresults.html.