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Data Management Channel

Articles

Complex Event Processing: Extending Business Activity Monitoring

An often overlooked use for complex event processing technology is delivering real-time insight.

Variable Architecture in Web Analytics

Variable architecture is the intersection of data storage and data delivery.

Essential Steps for the Integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse, Part 1

This article provides guidance to what an integrated EDW is and what design elements are needed to achieve integration.

Not Your Father’s List Management: MDM Matures, Part 2

Part 2 continues the description of the more complex levels of the MDM taxonomy.

Not Your Father’s List Management: MDM Matures, Part 1

How the master data is stored, accessed and propagated to the enterprise indicates master data management’s (MDM’s) evolution in an enterprise. The five stages of MDM maturity can help you gauge your company’s MDM evolution and offer a structured, deliberate pathway forward.

Columns

The Song Remains the Same

Technology and products have changed, but as I’m always reminding my consulting clients, the basis for sound data integration remains. Always remember the following basics that comprise the DIF.

A Battle of Giants

As the dust settles from the business performance management (BPM) vendor mergers of the past year, a few things are becoming clear.

Optimizing Entity Data Quality, Part 1

Undertaking a project to rationalize, cleanse and maintain entity data across an enterprise can be a daunting prospect. My columns this month and next will provide a high-level framework for establishing priorities and creating metrics that you can use to implement an entity data quality enhancement program. The information that you have about businesses - customers, prospects, vendors, counterparties - across your enterprise is actually a bundle of facts, or attributes, about these businesses. Within your…

Software Selection Mistakes

Selecting the right software cannot guarantee the success of a project, but picking the wrong system can ensure failure. This month’s column will focus on three common mistakes made in selecting software - overly detailed requirements, canned demonstrations and uninformed evaluations - and how to avoid them.

Why You Need Master Data Management

The vendor hype machine is up and running, and master data management (MDM) will be in your favorite software salesperson’s messaging and in their quotas by the time you read this. That hype drives business for a while, but soon MDM will have to prove its mettle.

White Papers

Enterprise Performance Management

By by Business Objects

Implementing SOA with an Offshore Partner

By by Torry Harris Business Solutions

Impact of US Back-Office Conversion Initiative

HP Business Intelligence Solutions

By by HP

Building a Tangible ROI for Data Quality

Books

Business Process Change, Second Edition

By Paul Harmon

Implementing Enterprise Data Warehousing

By by Alan Schlukbier

Successful Business Intelligence

By by Cindi Howson




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