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How MDM Changes BI Best Practices

online exclusive: Is business intelligence delivering a single version of the truth or just another version of it?

Time Enough: Real-Time Data Warehousing

event today: Real-time data warehousing can transform a good analytics program into a great one. And the use cases for this discipline are growing. Tune into today's episode of DM Radio at 3:00 pm ET to learn about the benefits and challenges of real-time DW.

7 Steps to Enhance Product Data Quality

news: TDWI’s research identifies a trend toward and methods for improving product data quality

How Three Integration Competency Centers Accelerated Data Services Adoption

feature: This article looks at both common organizational barriers to adoption and examples of applicable strategies used by successful adopters

“Electronic Water Coolers” May Smooth Process Deployments

commentary: Social networking and BPM could create a new approach to collaboration across organizations

New Product News - July 29, 2010

news: News about new and recently released products from BIReady, Nimsoft, Pegasystems and more

Industry Implementations - July 29, 2010

news: News about recent industry implementations, including MetroPCS and Netezza, Siemens and Information Builders, Dunkin Donuts and SysAid, and more

Information Management Announces 40 Vendors We're Watching

news: Products and services for the information management market that are useful, timely and appreciated by customers

Blogs

Reputation, Interrupted

Jim Ericson: Protecting your or your company’s good name is also an advocacy industry that social CRM won’t completely decipher

The Problem with Total Cost of Ownership

Baseline Consulting: TCO shouldn’t only be about the cost of hardware and software installation and maintenance. It should be about the cost of continued business usage

The Vegetarian Enjoys Steak – Open Source R Meets Proprietary Spotfire

Steve Miller: Twice a year my nephew and niece go off the vegetarian wagon, enjoying grilled pork chops or big hamburgers for special treats. As I think about my current analytics situation, there might be something for me to learn from their lead

Decision Management, Possibly the Last Frontier in BI

The Forrester Muse: More advanced enterprises are starting to venture into combining reporting and analytics with decision management

Social Business Intelligence: The Knowledge Management Connection

The Forrester Muse: Business intelligence has always had a “pipeline” orientation, but we all know that this orientation doesn’t describe the predominant flow of mission-critical intelligence in our lives

SAS Helps Companies Make Sense of Social Media Comments

Ventana Research: We have a situation where both companies and consumers are experimenting with social media, but no one is sure how this new channel will affect business in the long run

Extreme Performance Data Warehousing and Big Data

Robert Abate: There are a number of difficulties when dealing with enormous data volumes, including capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics and visualization. Industry experts continue to push the limits though

Case Studies / Profiles

Dive Into Open Source

Commercialized open source software brings competent low-risk technology to BI, but requires understanding, diligence and expectation management for a good fit

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

Leadership Zone

MDM Project Management

Assess the profile of your MDM project management team to understand potential gaps

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

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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Time Enough: Real-Time Data Warehousing

July 29, 2010
Real-time data warehousing can transform a good analytics program into a great one. And the use cases for this discipline are growing. Tune into this episode of DM Radio to learn about the benefits and challenges of real-time DW.

Data Lifecycle Management: A Strategic View

August 5, 2010
Storage costs and retention policies have swung wildly at times in the last few years, creating a real challenge for customers and service providers alike. Tune into this episode of DM Radio to learn about some new and innovative strategies for handling (and paying for) data, from cradle to grave.

Where Do They Go? Web Analytics for Success

August 12, 2010
Which parts of your Web site attract, retain or repel your prospects and customers? Knowing those answers can be a big difference in how you run your part of the world, but the sooner you find out (or your system does), the better. Being able to deliver what a customer *might* want can greatly increase stickiness and sales.

Executive Interview

Overheard: The Multi-Core Problem

Data management software isn't built for modern processors and can't leverage the technology it needs

Overheard: SaaS and Open Source: Brothers in Arms

With similar agendas and challenges, there’s more in common with these models than you think

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