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Top Stories

Euro Data Center Management Needs Improvement

news: Virtualization and automation are providing new ways to reduce costs and free resources; CIOs still have significant potential to improve management

You Store More and More Data. Can You Find It?

feature: Storing data is nothing new. In many operations, every action of every executive and staffer is recorded and stored electronically. The real issue is retrieving the data when needed

Einstein Will Be Ineffective — Relatively Speaking

opinion: A new, more robust version of the federal government’s intrusion detection program could be a blessing for U.S. businesses, but already the specter of invasion of privacy is being raised

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.

Lawyers, Discovery and Money

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

Commentary: HIMSS 2010: I've Got Two Words for You

news: It's hard to write "meaningful use" without flinching, even harder to think about it. Never has there been so much talk about something that so little apparently is known about

Updated Active EDW from Teradata

news: Expanded memory, improved throughput, increased linkage speed, faster backup and energy-saving performance

Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence for 2010

news: BI is a source of relative growth and innovation in 2010, according to predictions from HP

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

Aberdeen: Best Practices in IT Security

news: Reports emphasizes balance between defense and enablement; governance, risk and compliance tools valued

Is Notation Important?

feature: A picture is worth a thousand words, as they say, and it is important that the layout and formatting of your high-level data model is intuitive and easy to understand

Blogs

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

The Social Media Revolution in Industry Analyst Community

Ventana Research: Social media collaboration is best assessed through measurement. Figuring out how to measure social media interactions and effectiveness has been no easy task for technology providers

Vendors: What's Not To Like

Jim Ericson: Dresner survey churns top 10 peeves list in David Letterman fashion; we share them with you here

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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