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May 29, 2013 09:06 AM
MetLife and search-and-rescue teams prove that sometimes as-is data is good enough for serving customers and saving lives.
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November 06, 2012 08:34 AM
The problem isn't a shortage of products. It's a shortage of clarity and vision.
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July 05, 2012 08:26 AM
There's an argument for integrating master data management with big data, but much work needs to be done before that happens.
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February 16, 2012 10:28 AM
Rogue IT groups outside the main IT organization pose both pros and cons--and won't disappear anytime soon.
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January 09, 2012 08:30 AM
Voting rights issues are at stake in a case in South Carolina that poses a classic and complicated MDM problem.
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January 05, 2012 08:30 AM
SMBs must stay agile and creative to take advantage of the latest technologies and avoid IT failures.
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May 19, 2011 07:04 PM
Amazon and Sony's recent problems highlight the vulnerability of doing business in the cloud but may end up helping improve cloud services.
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April 19, 2011 08:00 AM
If you haven't considered data architecture to help protect your data, now is as good a time as any. Your business and even your job may depend on it.
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March 28, 2011 11:29 AM
Data governance and business process management efforts are too often siloed. It's up to IT (and the business) to integrate the two.
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March 14, 2011 08:39 AM
The well-known New York Times columnist warns that IT advances are destroying the knowledge economy. But he's missing a crucial point.
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March 07, 2011 09:25 AM
Separate "must have" from "nice to have" mobile business intelligence functionality. And watch out for licensing implications.
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February 09, 2011 08:00 AM
Data quality, master data management, metadata management, data warehousing architecture and data integration: These are all pieces of the data management puzzle, but rare is the enterprise that has assembled these pieces into a cohesive and coherent picture. Get it right and you can count on clean and consistent data from transaction systems and reliable insight from business intelligence systems. It doesn't end there. Your data management strategy must also consider business processes and business rules. Then, consider the people factor: How do you harness the expertise of your subject-matter experts and data stewards? Lastly, where do you draw the line on competency centers? This image gallery presents ten tenets of enterprise data management -- best practices illustrated by conceptual images -- that will get you headed in the right direction.
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February 02, 2011 09:40 AM
Even if Microsoft can't be an innovator in mobile, it's essential that disparate mobile technologies integrate as seamlessly as possible with the plethora of Microsoft enterprise technologies.
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January 19, 2011 08:38 AM
Some say the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Groupon deserve to be measured by a different yardstick. But that's what they said about the infamous flameouts of ten years ago.
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December 02, 2010 12:02 PM
Statistical analysis is now a standard tool in the sports technology portfolio. But how do you measure loyalty, leadership and other qualitative values?
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April 21, 2008 08:10 AM
SQL Server Data Services is a late-but-promising entrant in an emerging market that promises to be a boon to small and midsized firms looking to reach distributed groups of employees, partners or customers while controlling costs.
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January 28, 2008 12:52 PM
Process modeling tool highlights include BPMN support, low cost and integration with ER/Studio data modeling environment.
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October 21, 2007 12:36 PM
The Master Data Management (MDM) market is growing at a double-digit pace on the strength of three promised benefits: a cross-enterprise perspective for better business intelligence; greater consistency across customer records for improved transaction management; a solid foundation for service-oriented architectures (SOA). Has MDM turned the corner from leading-edge to must-have? Ravi Shankar, Director of Product Marketing at Siperian, shares his thoughts on MDM progress and next steps.
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December 01, 2006 12:00 AM
Data integration is integral to emerging service-oriented architectures, so it's doubtful that the technology's evolution is complete.
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November 01, 2006 12:00 AM
Release 7 of the AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler offers a major upgrade, adding undo/redo features and a rich set of data-comparison capabilities.
