微软收购Zoomix软件扩展数据库市场
自六月份早些时候开始，业界一直流传微软将收购位于耶路撒冷的Zoomix公司，但微软没有透露交易的财务条款。据Zoomix公司网站提供的信息称，Zoomix公司的加速器软件结合语义和语言分析，对机械的知识进行分类、匹配并使复杂的企业数据标准化。公司的主要客户是美国、欧洲和中东地区垂直市场的制造、分发、销售和金融企业。
微软公共关系公司表示，微软计划把Zoomix的自动化数据质量技术整合进它未来发布的SQL服务器数据库中。Zoomix表示，它的开发团队将加入微软在以色列的SQL 服务器研究开发团队。
软件卖主提供的数据库、商务智能和数据管理软件把越来越多的数据质量功能整合进这些提高企业整体数据质量的产品中。数据管理始终是企业客户存在的一个重要问题，尤其存在于大企业中不同系统的多种储存方案中，它们彼此之间可能略微不同。数据质量软件可以确保为数据的登录和储存过程提供帮助，随后向决策者提供。
IT分析机构 Ptak、Noel & Associates分析师 Richard Ptak表示，目前我们面临的问题之一是更多的数据、获得信息并通过信息获得事件的知识设法进行处理是非常重要的，也是困难的。微软在它的数据库产品中整合自动化数据质量技术，尤其是入门数据工作流程，可以极大的帮助整个数据的质量，减少错误和矛盾，在连续运作的过程中消费者希望对错误和矛盾尽早纠正。
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Speculation about Microsoft planning to purchase Zoomix, an Israeli start-up focused on data quality software that was founded in 1999, has now been confirmed with a press release. Although the two companies did not give any financial details (rumors suggested Microsoft would be paying between $25 million to $35 million), it is known that the software giant is hoping to integrate Zoomix's software into its SQL Server line of products in order to make it "a complete data platform for all data management needs" and that Zoomix's development staff will be joining the Microsoft research and development center in Israel.
Zoomix Accelerator, the company's main product, uses a guided self-learning technology to learn how to parse, match, classify, and clean data. This accumulated knowledge is then applied to every new piece of information fed into the Zoomix system. According to its product description, Zoomix Accelerator "smoothly integrates with existing applications and business processes, and dramatically reduces the human effort required for successful enterprise-wide data manipulation."
Moshe Lichtman, vice president of Microsoft International and president of R&D in Israel, stated in a press release that "Zoomix will contribute a critical layer of data improvement to Microsoft's SQL Server Data Platform. This capability will enable organizations to meet the requirements of complex information systems, and to streamline business processes, and is therefore expected to have a great impact on the organization's bottom line." The Microsoft Master Data Management team will be working with the SQL Server team to integrate the Zoomix and other DQ capabilities.
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Microsoft buys Israeli company Zoomix for estimated $35m
Speculation about Microsoft planning to purchase Zoomix, an Israeli start-up focused on data quality software that was founded in 1999, has now been confirmed with a press release. Although the two companies did not give any financial details (rumors suggested Microsoft would be paying between $25 million to $35 million), it is known that the software giant is hoping to integrate Zoomix's software into its SQL Server line of products in order to make it "a complete data platform for all data management needs" and that Zoomix's development staff will be joining the Microsoft research and development center in Israel.
Zoomix Accelerator, the company's main product, uses a guided self-learning technology to learn how to parse, match, classify, and clean data. This accumulated knowledge is then applied to every new piece of information fed into the Zoomix system. According to its product description, Zoomix Accelerator "smoothly integrates with existing applications and business processes, and dramatically reduces the human effort required for successful enterprise-wide data manipulation."
Moshe Lichtman, vice president of Microsoft International and president of R&D in Israel, stated in a press release that "Zoomix will contribute a critical layer of data improvement to Microsoft's SQL Server Data Platform. This capability will enable organizations to meet the requirements of complex information systems, and to streamline business processes, and is therefore expected to have a great impact on the organization's bottom line." The Microsoft Master Data Management team will be working with the SQL Server team to integrate the Zoomix and other DQ capabilities.