Business Benefits, Challenges, and Best Practices of Material Master Data Management
[ Source: Zynapse ]
January 2010-
Wondering why most organizations are challenged in driving continuing positive ROI from their system consolidation exercise? This paper focuses on what Meta group analysts Barry Wilderman and Bruce Hudson have to say about the impact of Material Master Consolidation in a system consolidation exercise.
Are You Giving Metadata Management The Right Attention?
[ Source: Tallan ]
June 2009-
Metadata Management is a critical but often ignored component in a successful data warehouse implementation. It is a path to establishing common understanding between the business and IT, but not often well understood by either side of the organization. Costs attributable to poor metadata management are often hidden in project development inefficiencies, mistakes made from incorrect assumptions about data, and analysis hours spent doing redundant research. The following illustrative study illustrates how recognizing metadata management ...
How To Unleash Data Potential In Times Of Credit Crunch
[ Source: Rajat Sharma ]
March 2009-
In the wake of the current credit crunch, and the failures of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, banks are worrying more and more about tracking their spending and making ends meet, trying to achieve profitable accounts while at the same time turning around riskier customer ventures. The nation’s banks are increasingly facing the credit crunch due to the sub-prime loan debacle. While financial stability and a surplus economy might be a mere vision ...
Centralized Data Backup and Your WAN
[ Source: Riverbed ]
May 2010-
Is your organization prepared to tackle the massive challenge of protecting your data in a cost effective and timely manner? With a growing number of branch offices, an increasing number of servers, and a high priority on reducing cost, backup is getting even harder to manage. Download this paper and learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with WAN optimization solutions.
GAP Analysis: The Case for Data Services
[ Source: JBoss ]
May 2008-
Data services gather and integrate data from many different sources in real time, bridging gaps to create consolidated information views while hiding data source complexity from applications. A data service approach makes data access and integration scalable by streamlining development and maintenance, whether applications speak Web services, SQL, or both.
This white paper is a GAP Analysis for the case of Data Services. It reviews the need for data services, anatomy of a ...
The State of Data
[ Source: SAS ]
November 2009-
Harnessing core data issues is essential to your organization’s success, enabling you to gain a 360-degree view of itself, its operations, and its customer base. Tackling the volumes and volumes of unstructured and semistructured data may be the most important decision your company can make. A clearer view enhances better business decisions, customer relations and profitability.
Untold billions of dollars are lost annually due to the errors and workarounds made necessary by ...
Business Intelligence Requirements for IT: What every IT Manager Should Know about Users’ Real Need for BI
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-
In today’s marketplace, the half-life of BI is typically shorter than the life of the project needed for its implementation. This means that companies are getting a continual negative return on their BI investment. It is time to approach the problem from a new direction and empower the business owners and knowledge workers to quickly and easily find the answers to their questions.
This whitepaper will address the following questions:
• What ...
Data Analytics - The New Growth Opportunity for Software Developers
[ Source: Vertica ]
April 2010-
Regulatory compliance, increased competition, and other pressures have created an insatiable need for companies to accumulate and analyze large, fast-growing quantities of data such as:
•Telecommunications call detail records (CDRs)
•IT/Network event history
•Financial trade (quote and tick) history
•Web logs & click streams for marketing and fraud analytics
•Compliance and other historical logs This presents a major market opportunity for enterprise software vendors and ...
Top 5 BI Process Management Challenges
[ Source: Cisco ]
December 2010-
Business Intelligence (BI) reporting and the extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes that support them are vital to equipping corporate decision makers with the information they need to maintain and improve business performance, successfully scale up as their business grows, and identify and implement new business initiatives and strategies. Key to getting current and accurate data in a timely manner is to ensure that the processes that move data from source to target systems run ...
Three Blind Men and an Elephant- The Power of Dashboards
[ Source: Tableau Software ]
March 2009-
Stephen Few, Principal of Perceptual Edge, reveals how dashboards make it easy to shift from one perspective to another while exploring and analyzing data, and pursuing every question that arises during the process.
Business people struggle every day to make sense of data, stumbling blindly, touching only small parts of the information, and coming away with a narrowed comprehension.
In this paper you'll learn how dashboards increase data comprehension ...