Information management

How to manage semi-structured data

Semi-structured data is here to stay, and it offers the potential for business advantage to companies that handle and analyse it well. Mark Whitehorn has advice on how to do that. Continue Reading

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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

IT in Europe e-zine: Data Management & BI Edition

The benefits of effective data management and business intelligence are many; so are the challenges. Get practical information and advice on data management & BI strategies in the IT in Europe ezine. Continue Reading

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• SearchDataManagement.co.UK staff

Predictive analytics, data visualisation, player tracking at play at Wimbledon

IBM provided predictive analytics, player tracking and data visualisation at Wimbledon. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Hadoop's run into enterprise cloud

Free enterprise cloud software from Hadoop is causing a lot of buzz in the market, and the economics of the public cloud are leading customers to more mid-sized cloud providers. Continue Reading

SAS CEO offers analytics over BI, reveals use cases for text analytics

In an interview, SAS CEO Jim Goodnight advocates analytics over BI query and reporting, explains text analytics use cases and touches on predictive asset management. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Business intelligence center of excellence (BI CoE): A handy reference

To extract maximum benefit from a BI solution, setting up a BI center of excellence (BI CoE) is essential. Here’s how you should go about it. Continue Reading

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• Naren N.S.

Data governance framework seen as bedrock of airline MDM strategy

Data governance emerges as a prerequisite for a sustainable, long-term master data management strategy. Continue Reading

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• Jessica Twentyman

DHL uses product-level track and trace system for high-value air cargo

Logistics company DHL is one business that uses product level track and trace for high value cargo. OnAsset Intelligence provides sensors and data. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

From the Editors: Master Data Management journeys never-ending, but still worth it

Master data management is like the quest for the Holy Grail -- elusive, yet well worth the journey. See how MDM has demonstrated value within the private and public sectors. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Database normalization in MySQL: Four quick and easy steps

Normalization helps in achieving resource optimization with improvements in MySQL database design. Learn about database normalization in MySQL Continue Reading

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• Ronen Baram

What to look out for when migrating to cloud databases

Companies going for a mix-and-match approach to migrating databases to the cloud are meeting interoperability problems. Early evaluation is necessary for integration. Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

Lloyds bank on master data management for business integration in M&A

Mergers and acquisitions have complicated Lloyds Banking Group's efforts to gain a single customer view through master data management. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

6 data warehouse design mistakes to avoid

Although difficult, flawless data warehouse design is a must for a successful BI system. Avoid these six mistakes to make your data warehouse perfect. Continue Reading

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• Amit Agarwal

Volkswagen creates common data services in pursuit of car industry pole position

Volkswagen’s common data services approach is crucial to the IT-enabled transformation of its five businesses. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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. Continue Reading

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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

PizzaExpress parent turns to customer data analytics to target diners

The Gondola Group of restaurants, which includes PizzaExpress, Ask, Zizzi, Byron and Kettner's, has gone digital with targeted promotions to casual diners over the past 18 months. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Dundee BI masters programme takes BI practitioners to next level

Dundee University’s business intelligence masters programme is training practitioners to take a step back, focus on user requirements and think about wider applications to science. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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. Continue Reading

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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

Business intelligence implementation best practices

Business intelligence implementations are riddled with challenges. Use these best practices to make your business intelligence implementations successful. Continue Reading

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• SearchBusinessIntelligence.IN Staff

ETL tool buying guide

While procuring an extract, transform, and load (ETL) tool, your considerations should range from data formats, profiling, data quality to meta data support and more. Continue Reading

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• Dr. Pramod Singh

Ensure data quality management during integration

Data quality management is the first and crucial step to data integration. Here are some tips to help maintain the data quality in your organization. Continue Reading

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• Bijoy Abraham, Contributor

Data management a focus for UK CIOs and the retail sector in 2011

This could be an important year for data management, and business intelligence in particular in the UK, according to a recent survey. CIOs and retail in particular are optimistic about their IT projects. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Site and News Editor

Tier Wars: Hardware, storage management software and document management software stake a claim for

Storage tiering is a hot meme, and rightly so because it can lower costs and is an important way to use the speed of solid state disks to your advantage. But with three tiering choices in the market – hardware, storage software and document management software - all offering tiering features, how can users decide which tool is the best tiering option? Continue Reading

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• Simon Sharwood

TPC-E: New IT benchmarks for OLTP database servers

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has released new benchmarks for online transaction processing (OLTP) database servers and hopes CIOs will use the new measures to inform their purchasing decisions. Continue Reading

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• Matthew Emmerton, Contributor

Gartner's Top 10 disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012

What are the new technologies that will change the way IT departments operate? Adam Turner reveals Gartner's top ten future disruptors. Continue Reading

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• Adam Turner, Contributor

Should I use data deduplication to manage unstructured data?

Absolutely; there are two areas where data deduplication, or single-instance storage, can help... Continue Reading

Storage Outlook '07: In search of better data management

Brian Peterson, storage architect for a Midwest-based Fortune 100 company, says better data management and business processes will be the main goal in 2007. Continue Reading

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• Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer

Zoning 101: Why zone?

Zoning can offer a number of benefits for your SAN. This tip details the advantages of zoning and offers an explanation of the different methods. Continue Reading

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• Rick Cook

Zoning, part 2: Hard zoning vs. soft zoning

Zoning is a fundamental management technique that basically controls who can see what in a storage area network (SAN). The following is part 2 of a three-part series on zoning. Continue Reading

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• Simon Gordon

Zoning, part 1: An overview of zoning

Zoning is a fundamental management technique that basically controls who can see what in a storage area network (SAN). The following is part 1 of a three-part series on zoning. Continue Reading

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• Simon Gordon

Zoning, part 3: Zoning schemas

Zoning is a fundamental management technique that basically controls who can see what in a storage area network (SAN). The following is part 3 of a three-part series on zoning. Continue Reading

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• Simon Gordon