Information Management
Insight, analysis and guidance into business intelligence, business intelligence systems, business intelligence data, data warehousing, data quality and data integration.
The way organizations compete with one another has undergone a sea change owing to the evolving knowledge-intensive society. Intellectual and knowledge assets possessed by organizations need to be used optimally to derive maximum benefit. Managing this cache of knowledge or Knowledge Management hence becomes an important managerial task.
The current recession surprised nearly everyone with its size and suddenness. Few foresaw the carnage it would wreak on Wall Street or its flash-freeze effect on credit markets. As revenues sank, many companies responded by aggressively cutting staff and budgets, including those for IT. An understandable response - but not necessarily a smart one.
Enterprise Software Adoption in Asia Pacific - Trends, Opportunities and Threats
Springboard Research conducted an Enterprise Software survey to understand how, when and where organizations are likely to seek consolidation of their Enterprise Software portfolio. This document presents Springboard Research's findings and analysis of market implications.
Springboard Research conducted an Enterprise Software survey to understand how, when and where organizations are likely to seek consolidation of their Enterprise Software portfolio. This document presents Springboard Research's findings and analysis of market implications.
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Metadata is found in all data, but usually it is considered most important within the confines of BI and ETL tools. It evolves as a bi-product of BI needs for two reasons: First, business oriented metadata is required for BI tools to enable access to the correct data by business users. Second, technical metadata is required to map data in source systems and data warehouses through ETL and BI tools.
Bill Inmon is recognized as the Father of the Data Warehouse and was voted as "One of the Ten IT People Who Mattered in the Past Forty Years" by Computer World Magazine in 2007. He's written 46 books and 650 articles on the topics, and been involved with various business successes.
The world of Data Warehouse Appliances is rapidly evolving, making the task of choosing the right appliance for your circumstances rather daunting. Colin White (founder of BI Research) suggests that the following principles should always be kept in mind when selecting an appliance:
Analytics have been around from the time the first computer program was written. Once the corporation began to generate data, there were financial analysts, sales analysts, marketing analysts and others anxiously awaiting to use that data in novel and creative ways.
Arguably, contracts are the most important property of a corporation. It is contracts that define obligations of the corporation to other corporations. It is contracts that define the obligations of other corporations to the corporation. It is contracts that define dates, terms, rates, collateral and other business conditions. Furthermore, if the conditions defined in the contract are not met, there are legal consequences.
Over time it is normal for corporations to collect important information that is on paper. The only difference between one corporation and another is the rate of collection, the amount of papers collected, and importance of those papers. Some corporations collect a lot of paper and collect it quickly. Other corporations collect relatively small amounts of paper and at a slow rate. In any case, the collection of paper documents with important information on the documents is a fact of life in the corporation.
In most companies, there is a wealth of unstructured textual information. There are documents of many kinds found in many places. There are reports. There are articles. There are spreadsheets. There are contracts. In a word there are many documents of many types in many places in the corporation.
It's not often that data warehousing is involved in the front page news. As important and as powerful as data warehousing is, it simply is a back room exercise in most places. It is an infrastructure rather than a proactive, in your face, part of life.
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