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Top Stories

HSBC Admits Data Loss, Apologizes to Customers

news: HSBC's Swiss subsidiary HSBC Private Bank SA admitted Thursday that a former employee stole records on 15,000 clients and passed them to French government authorities

Linux: Big With the Bulge Brackets

news: The open-source software Linux has become by far the most-widely used operating system among the largest firms on Wall Street

CA To Buy Nimsoft

news: The move follows CA’s recent acquisitions of cloud-computing-management-related companies Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore and its planned acquisition of 3Tera.

New Features with OnBase System

news: Hyland Software Inc. announced more than 850 enhancements and new functions in version 9.2 of its flagship OnBase document imaging and management software

Saugatuck: Alternatives Gaining in IT Systems Management

news: Options range from traditional on-premise solutions to appliances to SaaS and cloud-based tools

New Product News - March 11, 2010

news: News about new and recently released products from Information Builders, TIBCO, EMC and more

The Dark Underbelly of Our Shiny, Clean Technology

column: Green IT is increasingly important to business leadership

How High-Level Data Modeling Fits with Other Data Initiatives

feature: A brief overview of the hot topics in data management and discussion of how a high-level data model can help with siloed projects or programs

VA, DoD Expand Data Sharing Pilots

news: The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are expanding to the Tidewater area of southeast Virginia pilot tests to share patient data among their information systems

Pay No Attention to the Pricing Model Behind the Curtain

news: IDC Survey demonstrates both interest and skepticism toward pay-per-use software pricing

The BI-Search Evolution

feature: Information access and exploration has become more challenging as more people attempt to make more decisions based on more data, but search and the power of BI are finally merging to address this problem

Building Market Data Infrastructure Becomes Top Priority for CIOs

news: Securities firms are opening their wallets to purchase new hardware, software and other technical infrastructure to handle skyrocketing amounts of market data

Answer Our Question of the Week

This week's question: How have vendor acquisitions made you revisit your IT planning? Share your response in our discussion thread.

Best Practices for Repairing Your Most Valuable Asset

feature: Three fundamental practices to embrace data quality and ensure data is complete and up-to-date

Blogs

Data Services and Virtualization

Robert Abate: Place data services and virtualization together and you end up with a very powerful combination information availability for the enterprise and the basic model for master data

Moving On With Analytics

Jim Ericson: Catching up with Tom Davenport and his latest book, it looks like we're squaring up analytical prowess with our slower culture and process evolution

Understanding Social Personas

Baseline Consulting: Jill reveals her secret. (Okay, one of her secrets)

Who are the BI Personas?

The Forrester Muse: The traditional lines of demarcation between IT and business, developers and end users, producers and consumers of info no longer work. Every time I try to create a matrix of BI personas in this new world, I end up with so many dimensions

Data, Data Everywhere

Steve Miller: Steve Miller touches on a smattering of topics covered in the Economist's "Data, Data Everywhere" - a must read for those seeking the big-picture of business intelligence and analytics

Case Studies / Profiles

Processing AVATAR

A thoroughbred of a data center at Weta Digital sits behind intense visual effects in the blockbuster movie and the creative artists who put it together

Going Long

Dallas Cowboys Merchandising pulls off comeback win with real-time metrics

BI’s March to Health Care

Rays of light but no ready cure as institutions wrangle with foundational requirements of business intelligence

Bringing Analytics to the Treatment Level

A program at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center includes data warehouse and analytics software to facilitate ongoing care of cancer survivors

Leadership Zone

Net Expectations

What a Web data service economy implies for business

U.S. Government, Wal-Mart and You

Can you see the impact of new U.S. government and Wal-Mart initiatives on your company or customers? If not yet, I suspect you will soon

Baseball + Analytics = Improved Performance

How does an organization create a culture of metrics? One example of organizations that have done so is the baseball community

Is Performance Management Art, Craft or Science?

For today’s organizations implementing the various component methodologies of the performance management framework, how much is art, craft or science?

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Upcoming & Recent Shows:

Our Kingdom for a Standard

March 4, 2010
Open standards maximize productivity, so why are they so hard to promulgate? Tune into this episode of DM Radio to learn how open-source technologies and adoption of standards can change the world of Information Management.

Third Annual Appliance Showdown

March 11, 2010
They said it would be so easy. They said it was plug-and-play. Was it, really? Tune into this episode of DM Radio to find out! We'll talk all about appliances: Are they all they're cracked up to be? We'll hear from a who's who of appliance experts.

Achieving Alignment with Centers of Excellence

March 18, 2010
Increasingly, Centers of Excellence help organizations make the most of their IT investments. Tune into this episode of DM Radio to learn how a COE can help your company.

Back to Basics: Data Integration Strategies and Tactics

February 28, 2010
Cloud computing, faster processors, database innovations, optimized architectures – all open new doors for improving information management, sometimes by orders of magnitude. Tune into this episode of DM Radio to learn more!

Executive Interview

Overheard: Lawyers, Discovery and Money

All parties to the legal process need IT education to contain the costs and risks associated with electronic discovery

Overheard: AVATAR's Data Center

Processing visual effects for the blockbuster movie shows how data center designs can differ by purpose

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