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Data warehousing

• November 01, 2012 01 Nov'12

  West Midlands Police develops golden view of criminals, suspects

  West Midlands Police, the second largest force in the UK, seeks to reduce risk to its officers and the public by using DataFlux software that gives a master record for criminals and suspects.

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  Teradata brings big data into the SQL family

  Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

  ‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Sybase: Data warehousing too slow for ‘big data’ analytics

  Sybase EMEA business development director speaks about ‘big data’ analytics’ need for speed and pronounces traditional data warehousing “antiquated.”

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Royal Mail delivers enterprise master data management

  The Royal Mail has delivered a master data management programme stemming from a new electronic data warehouse and BI initiative. Project team leaders claim a people-plus-technology synthesis.

• October 14, 2011 14 Oct'11

  BBC evolves digital asset management with Life

  The BBC’s Life series marked an ongoing shift from film to digital media that is making the need for rigorous metadata and digital asset management in broadcast media more pressing.

• August 03, 2011 03 Aug'11

  Round table: the value of big data

  Learn what our round table of experts thinks of the value and significance of “big data.”

• April 12, 2011 12 Apr'11

  Teradata data warehouse joins SSD technology to HDDs, virtual storage

  At Teradata Universe in Barcelona, the company announced the Active EDW 6680, a data warehouse system that mixes SSD technology, hard disks and storage virtualization software.

• March 21, 2011 21 Mar'11

  When data goes bad: how data quality analysis can fix problems

  How can data quality be improved for business benefit? Data quality is complex, and thrown into relief by the pressing requirement for analysis. Learn how to clean it up through data quality analysis.