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3Par Agrees to HP Offer; Dell Concedes

news: 3Par accepted the increased buyout bid earlier today from Hewlett-Packard, ending a back-and-forth for the California utility storage company with rival Dell

Three Approaches to Life and How They Influence Your Career

column: The best outcomes for IT systems begin with creative ideas from divergent thinking

Report: Customer Service Driving Data Quality Concerns

research: Business executives have surprisingly shifted their focus on data quality because of customer service concerns – and not just finding efficiencies – in the last year, according to a new study of data quality by Experian QAS

New Product News – September 2, 2010

news: News about new and recently released products from HP, Javlin, Stonefield Software and more

Trend Micro Launches Encryption For The Cloud

news: New service can be used to secure data over public or private clouds.

6 New Must-Read Books for IT Professionals

Slide Show: The Society for Information Management, the national organization of CIOs, just released its 2011 booklist for candidates in its Regional Leadership Forum program.

Thomson Buy Expands Analytics Line

news: Content and analytics vendor Thomson Reuters has acquired Healthcare Data Management Inc., a vendor of data analytics software for the health payer market

Securing Social Media

news: New Deloitte paper assesses risk management issues with online groups

Hurricane Earl: Is Your Data Center Ready?

news: Data center managers need to review strategies to prioritize operations and minimize disruptions.

Blueprint for Do-it-Yourself Metadata

feature: A data integration team can build its own custom metadata database based on commonly used data integration design artifacts and enable the impact analysis and change management benefits that metadata provides well before ETL coding starts. Here’s how.

Blogs

Not All In-Memory Analytics Tools are Created Equal

The Forrester Muse: I get many questions from clients interested in evaluating different in-memory technologies. My first advice is not to mix apples and oranges

Kenexa Advances in Talent Management and Saves Salary.com

Ventana Research: For Kenexa this acquisition will fill a compensation software gap in its portfolio

Outer Banks Vacation Reading – 'The Invisible Gorilla'

Steve Miller: The title derives from experiments the psychology professors have conducted on limitations in visual human attention

Standing Up for Agile BI. (Sort of.)

Baseline Consulting: In which Jill reconsiders her take on agile BI — for a second, anyway

The Forrester Wave: BPM Suites, Q3 2010 – BPM Suites Deliver Broad Support For Business-led Process Transformation

The Forrester Muse: A sneak peek at the new Forrester Wave head-to-head comparison of which BPM suites best support the needs of comprehensive process improvement programs

Midmarket BI and Data Warehousing

Jim Ericson: There's a lot we don't know about this segment but a new survey is out and we're having fun predicting some results

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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Stop Thief! Fraud Detection in a Web-Enabled World

September 9, 2010
How many ways to catch a thief? More and more, thanks to predictive analytics, data-as-a-service and other clever computing tricks. Stopping fraud in its tracks can save customers, money and more.

The Customer Is Still Right: How CDI Improves Everything

September 16, 2010
Everyone knows good service when they get it. They also know bad service. Anymore these days, the former is paramount, lest customers go elsewhere. That's why Customer Data Integration can make such a difference throughout your organization.

Data as a Service in Warehousing, Intelligence, and Performance

September 23, 2010
We'll hear from James Kobielus, Forrester; John Bantleman, RainStor; David Besemer, Composite Software; John Thompson, Kognitio and Ash Parikh, Informatica.

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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