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Lessons Learned: Survey of Financial Services Companies Uncovers Data Governance Trends Summary
 DataFlux conducted a survey to understand data management trends in the financial services industry. This white paper is based on that survey and examines how this industry is approaching managing its data, the breadth and depth of data governance in this sector, what motivates data management strategies, and what kind of rules the industry thinks should be introduced in the future to promote success.

Topics: Data Governance, Data Management, Information Management login required
0 comments 		06-05-2010
Raising the Bar on Business Analytics: Innovation Powered by Grid Summary
 Business analytics could be your greatest asset in delivering insight into customer behavior, operations, financial performance and risk management. Read how business analytics on a grid computing platform can significantly benefit your organization.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics login required
0 comments 		28-04-2010
Staffing for Intelligence Summary
 This technology brief explains how to get the best return on your analytics investment by seeking out a new combination of skill sets in your data professionals – and creating cross-functional liaison roles that bridge the gap between IT and business.

Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence login required
0 comments 		15-04-2010
The Search for the Elusive ROI: Tracking Down Value in a Jungle of Enterprise Management Products Summary
 In the enterprise management space, ROI research provides a glimpse into “real world” IT and the experiences of a variety of companies. Every IT organization is on a quest to deliver high value to the business in the most cost effective way possible. While ROI is important in all areas of the business, skillful product selections within IT can yield particularly high levels of quantifiable value.

Topics: Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Data Acquisition and Delivery, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, ROI (Return On Investment), Data Management login required
0 comments 		10-03-2010
Pervasive Metamorphosis 2009: Integrating the Enterprise and Beyond Summary
 Pervasive Software held its ninth Metamorphosis conference event in Boston on April 29 and 30, 2009. This Enterprise Management Associate(EMA) Brief summarizes the conference content and Enterprise Management Associates’ key takeaways regarding products and announcements. It also provides a brief summary of Pervasive and its value proposition, as well as information on how Pervasive customers are using its products. Finally, it recommends that companies attempting to “reinvent the wheel” for every new integration investigate Pervasive’s wide range of on-premise and cloud-based product offerings.

Topics: Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Cloud Computing, ROI (Return On Investment), Data Management login required
0 comments 		09-03-2010
Avoiding the Integration Tar Pit Summary
 If you don’t plan and design the data integration parts of your projects, you are destined for a data integration tar pit, with a tangled mess of point-to-point integrations of exponentially increasing complexity. This Bloor Research on agile integration discusses fast delivery of cost-effective data integration which can respond immediately to changing business needs and which doesn’t grow more complex (and expensive) to manage over time.

Topics: Data Integration, Data Acquisition and Delivery, Data Quality, Metadata, Data Profiling, Data Migration login required
0 comments 		08-03-2010
Scalable Data Quality: A Seven Step Plan for Any Organization Summary
 Bad data is a challenge for all organizations as it can lead to lost revenue, operational inefficiencies and unnecessary costs. Organizations can benefit from a strong data quality initiative – one that scales to meet growing business needs.

Topics: Information Quality (IQ), Data Quality login required
0 comments 		27-02-2010
Geocoding: Acquiring Location Intelligence to Make Better Business Decisions Summary
 In a tight economy, the need for making sound business decisions while finding efficiencies is critical. That’s why more companies are adding location intelligence to their data to make better business decisions – and gain a competitive advantage. (Note: this white paper takes about 3 minutes to download.)

Topics: Information Management, Data Quality login required
0 comments 		27-02-2010
Data Manufactory – NextGen Unified Data Management Summary
 Data manufactory is a coordinated management process recognizing that organizations manufacture data and can dramatically improve their efficiency and quality by adopting manufacturing best practices.

Topics: Information Management, Data Management, Business Process Management (BPM) login required
0 comments 		23-11-2009
EDA Gives Clients Competitive Edge via Deduplication Tool Summary
 Equipment Data Associates' (EDA) goal is to provide its clients with metrics and analytical tools to gain strategic insights into customer behavior and identify new prospects. With such detail-driven data, EDA knew it had to ensure total and complete accuracy and solved the problem of duplicate records with MatchUp Object, a multiplatform API from Melissa Data.

Topics: Information Management, Data Quality login required
0 comments 		11-11-2009
A Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine Summary
 This white paper outlines how Oracle Exadata and the Sun Oracle Database Machine provide a unified database platform that accelerates database performance allowing you to be more productive, easily scales to handle incremental growth and delivers mission-critical data availability and protection.

Topics: Information Management, Data Warehousing, Storage, Appliances login required
0 comments 		04-11-2009
City of Tempe Utilizes Address Validation Tool to Build Data Warehouse Summary
 Tempe sends thousands of mail pieces each week. But the city’s contact data contained inaccurate and incomplete address information. The city’s goal was to consolidate and validate its contact data to build a data warehouse. Read how they did it.

Topics: Information Management, Data Quality login required
0 comments 		13-08-2009
Understanding Data Governance ROI: A Compliance Perspective Summary
 This white paper examines the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts with a focus on the types of contributions these efforts make, especially in the area of managing compliance costs. The paper also introduces an ROI formula for use in circumstances where it’s important to quantify the value of those contributions.

Topics: Information Management, Business Intelligence, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Architecture, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Governance, Information Quality (IQ), Data Management login required
0 comments 		29-05-2009
The Three Key Phases for Data Migration – and Beyond Summary
 Companies that have already done major data migration or consolidation work often struggle with incompatible system designs and technologies, limited knowledge of what data exists and a lack of standards on what constitutes "good" data. This white paper examines how data management technology can solve these issues through a three-phase process of analyzing, improving and controlling data.

Topics: Information Management, Data Quality, Information Quality (IQ), Data Management login required
0 comments 		29-05-2009
Enterprise Information Management: Strategy, Best Practices and Technologies on Your Path to Success Summary
 Data management practices and technology form the core of all business initiatives. Without complete and accurate customer, product, sales or other information, your business initiative is unsustainable. An information management strategy for integrating, improving and delivering information should include solutions like data integration, data quality and metadata management.

Topics: Information Management, Data Quality, Databases/Database Administration, Master Data Management (MDM), Information Quality (IQ), Enterprise Information Management (EIM)
0 comments 		24-03-2009

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