Comments on: RIP – IBM Acquires Initiate Systems http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/acquisition/rip-ibm-acquires-initiate-systems/ Realizing value from information Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Oliver Halter http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/acquisition/rip-ibm-acquires-initiate-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Oliver Halter Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:40:09 +0000 http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/?p=1003#comment-389 Kevin, I don't think it was the primary motivation. Initiate typically doesn't store a vast amount of data; their 'model' largely centers around the demographic information about a person or organization that allows to match them to another identity. All other data is typically resolved via lookups to the original data sources. So Initiate acts like really smart white pages where you can find someone and see all their references in other systems. I really think that IBM got tired of losing opportunities to Initiate and either bought them to bury them or to replace the former DWL product at the core of their CDI strategy. Let me know if you want to chat about this more, Oliver Kevin,

I don’t think it was the primary motivation. Initiate typically doesn’t store a vast amount of data; their ‘model’ largely centers around the demographic information about a person or organization that allows to match them to another identity. All other data is typically resolved via lookups to the original data sources. So Initiate acts like really smart white pages where you can find someone and see all their references in other systems.
I really think that IBM got tired of losing opportunities to Initiate and either bought them to bury them or to replace the former DWL product at the core of their CDI strategy.

Let me know if you want to chat about this more,
Oliver

]]> By: Kevin Davis http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/acquisition/rip-ibm-acquires-initiate-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Kevin Davis Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:38:23 +0000 http://www.theinformationadvantage.com/?p=1003#comment-388 Oliver, Could it be that IBM needed a good healthcare data model? From what I understand the current on is financial services driven. Sure seems like a brute force way to get it!! Thoughts? Kevin Oliver,
Could it be that IBM needed a good healthcare data model? From what I understand the current on is financial services driven. Sure seems like a brute force way to get it!!

Thoughts?
Kevin

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