TopQuadrant Describes the Unicorn System in Report Entitled "Semantic Integration: Strategies and Tools" July 14, 2003
Irene Polikoff and Dean Allemang of TopQuadrant describes the Unicorn System extensively in this new report: "Unicorn is a design time tool that imports schemas from multiple data sources including XML, RDBMS, COBOL, IMS, and EDI. They are then mapped to a central enterprise model (ontology). Mapping supports creation of data transformation rules. Unicorn can generate transformation scripts as executable SQL, XSLT, Java Bean code. The market for semantic integration is expected to grow fairly quickly fueled by the needs of enterprises." --------------------------------------------
	Gartner Research Covers Unicorn in Recent Metadata Report June 11, 2003
Gartner Research Vice President and Research Director Michael Blechar covers Unicorn Solutions in a recent report entitled "Seven Architectural Cuts of Metadata," listing it as one of several Metadata Repository Vendors. (Used with permission.) --------------------------------------------
	Unicorn Covered in Gartner Report Entitled "Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware, 2003" May 30, 2003
Gartner Vice President and Research Fellow Roy Schulte mentions Unicorn Solutions when describing "Vocabulary-Based Transformations" in this comprehensive Gartner Report co-authored by eight analysts. Schulte writes, "An abstract or conceptual vocabulary (or taxonomy or ontology) is the definition of a set of terms, both elementary and composite, their structural relationships and their constraints in a metadata-independent manner. Sophisticated forms of transformation leverage pre-built vocabularies to enable semantic adjustments including, but not limited to, synonyms. Vocabulary-based semantic transformation may eventually reduce the development time needed to implement the majority of application integration scenarios. Business processes that require integration of systems with disparate data models will be implemented at lower cost and without as much custom coding." (Used with permission.) --------------------------------------------
	"Four Levels of Data Integration" Report Touts Unicorn Providing "Full Model-Based Integration" May 10, 2003
Unicorn is highlighted as one of only two U.S. vendors doing the most advanced level of data integration known to enterprises: "full model-based integration." The report entitled "Four Levels of Data Integration" by Robert Worden states that this is the fourth and highest data integration "level of increasing sophistication and power." "The Level 4 solution to data integration is to map all data sources onto a central data model ... then to do all data translations automatically from these mappings," a process Unicorn accomplishes through its Unicorn System Information Model. --------------------------------------------
	TopQuadrant Features Unicorn in "Ontology Tool Support: Ontology Development Lifecycle and Tools" Technology Briefing April 10, 2003
Irene Polikoff, Editor of TopQuadrant’s quarterly Technology Briefings, mentions Unicorn as a "deployment vendor" focusing on ontology-based Enterprise Data Management, structured data, ontology creation, data modeling, and OWL, RDFS, and DAML+OIL support. --------------------------------------------
	"Semantic Web Technologies Take Middleware to Next Level" August 20, 2002
Gartner analysts Jim Jacobs and Alexander Linden publish a report on the benefits of ontology models, the technology at the core of the Unicorn System. "The objective of an ontology is to provide a formal specification of part of the real world. Ontology-based techniques are beginning to provide the structure to realize effective application discovery, maturing to yield tool and methodology frameworks that can support end users. Using a unified semantic model in the form of a full ontology, or even a simplified taxonomy, can provide a common ground for each data model. Even without developing full application discovery, the ontology can provide design and integration time coherence to avoid the traps of these variances." (Used with permission.) --------------------------------------------
	Unicorn Featured in Yankee Group Report Entitled "Unifying Information Access for Enterprise Users" April 2002
Yankee Group analyst Robert Perry mentions Unicorn Solutions and the Unicorn system numerous times in his April 2002 report entitled "Unifying Information Access for Enterprise Users." The report details the benefits of unified information access and also includes details of a recent case study in which the Unicorn system solved painful data problems in a Global 100 enterprise. The Unified Enterprise View (endorsed by Unicorn) is also cited as providing the most data granularity and increased recombination capabilities of any single product group.