Editorial Director

Jim Ericson is editorial director of  Information Management, a SourceMedia publication. You can reach him at Jim.Ericson@sourcemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @jimericson.

Your Personal Data Store
January 30, 2012 We are all increasingly destined to be bystanders to our own transactional existence

The Faster, Cheaper Side of IT
January 26, 2012 Economics, advances in RAM, main memory changing how companies transact, analyze data

Getting Holistic with Enterprise Architecture
January 25, 2012 Leon Kappelman teaches and preaches the greater value of optimizing the whole enterprise

Amazon Launches Big Data Service
January 20, 2012 Dynamo DB is a fully managed NoSQL database with high availability, unlimited, scaling on solid-state disk

Kundra Joins Salesforce as EVP
January 17, 2012 Former federal CIO brings vision of social, mobile, cloud to private sector

Apps Overtaking Middleware
January 17, 2012 Race for analytic software confirmed by IBM's shift; Forrester's Bartels finds strongest growth in nontraditional,...

Forrester Sees Shifting IT Market
January 11, 2012 Global spending eases to 5 percent for 2012; demand shifts to new technologies, acquisitions will help large vendors keep up

Arming the IT Rebels
January 11, 2012 Employers ponder, empower users moving job and life to Internet; organizations to spend $28 billion on Apple gear in 2013

Will Your New CIO Be a CMO?
January 4, 2012 Amid outsourcing trends, a Gartner analyst says chief marketing officers will spend more on IT than CIOs by 2017

How We Know IT Change is Real
December 27, 2011 We don't yet have an organizational response to a trend like big data; once we do, we'll know better know how big a shift is...

Does the Best Information Worker Arrive by Nature or Nurture?
December 13, 2011 It takes a mix of talents to thrive in the IT and information management world; we need to develop strengths and identify and...

Overheard: Colleges, Computing and a Conundrum
December 12, 2011 Seton Hall professor David Rosenthal wishes there was more excitement among U.S. students for computer science and information...

BI, Analytic Software Supporting Educators
December 12, 2011 Independent software vendors including SAS, InetSoft and Jaspersoft are donating products to higher education to raise...

Mobility Gets its Own Governance
December 5, 2011 If application creep has been a problem in enterprise software, mobile app development has already dwarfed that

SAP Bids $3.4B for SuccessFactors
December 4, 2011 Largest bet yet on cloud computing targets U.S. service-based human resources startup

Lowe's: From Customer Data to Customer Loyalty
November 30, 2011 Home improvement giant plots a course from retailer to homeowner consultant with focus on tools for user experience,...

GIS and Resource Management
November 22, 2011 While we stew over the consumer ramifications of geographic information systems, the technology is making a productive social...

Disruptive? That Depends
November 16, 2011 A panel of CIOs from defense, health care and entertainment industries have different views on the good and bad of emerging...

What is Enterprise Architecture?
November 16, 2011 A panel at the Society for Information Management’s annual conference mostly agrees on the key elements but differs in...

Virtualization: Now in Print
November 14, 2011 10 Minutes with Bob Eve, EVP Composite Software, on data virtualization/federation, customer choice and the complicated...

Being Analytically Relevant
November 11, 2011 An analytics trainer sent a simple message with a lot of impact to a conference of data managers; some got it and others didn't

EAS: A Blast From The Past
November 6, 2011 The Emergency Alert System gets its very first national test Wednesday afternoon, an information anachronism wrapped in deja vu

Big Data Point-Counterpoint
November 1, 2011 A pair of consultants square off in a mock debate that pokes fun at the tension and hype over the hottest topic in data...

IBM Names Next Chief Executive
October 26, 2011 Virginia Rometty will take CEO role at end of year; Palmisano to stay on as chairman

IBM's Message is Pitch Perfect
October 26, 2011 Compare the pending CEO replacement to the circuses of its peers, and the silence is downright impressive

Be a Hero, Delete Something Today
October 24, 2011 Just like legacy business practices, apps and data are cluttering our infrastructure closets and basement

Business Intelligence Throws a Party
October 11, 2011 Next generation BI tools are built to integrate intellect at the same time as data; social, collaboration, mobility take data...

Apple Says Co-Founder Steve Jobs has Died
October 5, 2011 Legendary technologist was 56; no cause of death released for executive who battled cancer, liver failure

Yammer Gathering Momentum
September 27, 2011 New $17 million funding round brings total to $57 million; new customers include Ford, Southern, Shell, SuperValu; former...

Dear HP: You Bought It, Now Own It
September 23, 2011 Let's hope HP's new interest in information management is something they can articulate better than they have so far

Whitman Replaces Apotheker at HP
September 22, 2011 Former eBay CEO and gubernatorial candidate becomes third to head hardware giant in less than one year; affirms likely spinoff...

Agile BI: Good but Not Enough
September 20, 2011 At Guess Inc., BI Director Bruce Yen embraces mobility and fashion culture, but wants more from technology in a quickly...

The Rise of Ungoverned Data
September 19, 2011 Business and IT can do a better job of self-preservation by admitting they've been avoiding one another, identifying what's...

MDM: No Roots, No Fruits
September 13, 2011 When confronting master data management and data governance, organizations find they’re missing requisite skills they...

Data Disasters Only Partly About Scale
September 8, 2011 When reflecting on 9/11 and impending risk, data disasters, like traffic accidents, take many shapes and are most likely to...

MDM: It's Us AND Them
September 6, 2011 It's been tough to match the technology to the people/process approach to master data management, but leading up to our next...

Overheard: The Behavior Behind Social Business Technology
September 2, 2011 An Information Management interview with Mike West and Bruce Guptil, Saugatuck Technology

Exclusive Research: The Social Business Technology Horizon
August 31, 2011 Findings on trends and adoption of collaboration, community and productivity from Saugatuck Technology in partnership with...

Information Management Strikes Back
August 22, 2011 HP says so long to much of its hardware business and bets the farm on enterprise software and services

HP Shuts WebOS Business, Acquires Autonomy for $10B
August 18, 2011 A tumultuous day in which the hardware giant also announced it is exploring options to spin off its PC business and a services...

Tired Terms and Real Trends
August 17, 2011 We're seeing tighter connections among people and processes across business and IT; we just need the right way to express it

Tech For Teacher
August 9, 2011 CIO Ellen Shepard makes creative use of homebuilt and packaged software, SaaS, and an information architecture built around...

Managing Labor Productivity Like the NFL
August 2, 2011 An author and accountant says a salary cap approach to labor productivity and managing to profit instead of cost puts the best...

Cloud Security/Assurance Framework Released
July 27, 2011 ISACA combines value management, risk management to business model for cloud security in a single guide

Governance is Relevant
July 26, 2011 Despite backlash from some quarters, governance of data and information is not a Kafkaesque nightmare; it is the process of...

BI/Data Management Program Framework
July 26, 2011 Forrester Research document focuses on process data management, change management, checklists for roles and competencies

10 Minutes With: Mushegh Hakinian
July 20, 2011 A SaaS security architect talks about enlightened security planning, how to weigh the security practices of SaaS providers,...

Governance For Information Too?
July 15, 2011 Folks are spinning information governance as an extension of the data version, but right now it looks like a semantic trial...

10 Minutes With Hortonworks CEO Eric Baldeschwieler
July 13, 2011 CEO of the new Yahoo! Big data spinoff talks about plans to grow Apache Hadoop

Mobility's Big Bang
July 8, 2011 A vendor finds 82 percent of the Fortune 50 have deployed mobile apps; BI uptake problems should finally end when mainstream...

Cultural Transformation or Tribal Identification
July 4, 2011 Governance, social and collaborative momentum is about people gravitating to what they identify with, so go where the action is

Overheard: Cloud Needs Contingency Plans
July 1, 2011 Data losses, theft expose lack of mainstream preparedness to roll out services

MDM: Erratic, Pervasive or Both?
June 21, 2011 At MDM Summit, it's basics as usual, hard-won progress and hints of what happens if you believe master data management will go...

10 Minutes With: Jai Menon, CTO, IBM Systems and Technology Group
June 13, 2011 The Chief Technology Officer of IBM’s server, storage and networking business says flexible architecture and...

Riffing on Data Dualism
June 9, 2011 Tom Davenport, in an in-flight magazine between stops, sets up a little existential data pondering

Secure Cloud Practices Still Ramping
June 6, 2011 Amid failures and breaches, public and private sector groups are at early stages of fending off breakdowns and hacks; existing...

Getting Better at Analytics
May 31, 2011 MIT CIO symposium finds companies rate themselves 4.5 on a scale of 10 and a panel is asked what to do about it; Schwab CIO...

Lean Information and Single Points of Failure
May 24, 2011 Managing risk in information is partly about monitoring and anticipating problems and partly about attaching value to what...

What Every CIO Should Know
May 18, 2011 MIT academic keynote panel at annual CIO Symposium locks in on security privacy and regulation vs. information opportunity

MIT Summit Gathers CIOs
May 16, 2011 With a full house of experts on hand, attendees who already have their hands full will likely look for validation and support...

Mainstreaming Cloud: Get Used To It
May 11, 2011 Saugatuck summit rolls out constructive uses of cloud tech in action, starting with a transformed old line corporation

MDM-Aware Apps
May 7, 2011 Vendors are dialing up master data in familiar applications for search, compliance, governance and more

Business Intelligence Buoyancy Restored
May 4, 2011 At Gartner BI conference, old school meets a new wave of topics few saw arriving just a couple of years ago

BI: Written in the Tablets
April 11, 2011 With no prompting from me, real-world execs at big companies are talking about the demand for take-it-to-work iPad or other...

Information Management As An Asset
April 5, 2011 We may never have a unified department to manage all information initiatives, but let's root for those who see it happening

Business Intelligence Crowd Appeal
March 30, 2011 Howard Dresner's followup survey could give a partial transitional snapshot on where BI is headed and how people view it now

Tremors in IT
March 15, 2011 Consultant Dave Wells has a good summation of trends we can expect will have rocked information technology five years from now

Overheard: BI Shakes Out
March 11, 2011 Between old school and modern visions, bets are laid for the short term and the long haul

Putting Business Intelligence Mobility to Work
March 7, 2011 Analyst says mobile applications, platforms and devices, though on the horizon, will "revolutionize" BI

The Split Personality CIO
March 4, 2011 Ray Wang's research into organizational demands on chief information officers has led him to four archetypes

Fix Health Care: That’s an Order
February 23, 2011 At the HIMSS conference in Orlando, I met a CIO who goes to work in Army combat fatigues

Metadata Runs Amok
February 13, 2011 The volume of metadata is beginning to exceed the volume of primary data in some areas, according to a resident expert; time...

Communicate, Collaborate, Stay Warm
February 2, 2011 Like your trusty furnace sends up heat, email is still the main radiator for all the competing interests that want your time...

Tech Trends No Longer Linear
January 27, 2011 When large trends mature rapidly and combine, even longtime industry observers can be thrown off their game; sometimes, new...

How IBM's Watson Churns Analytics
January 23, 2011 Workload Optimization are keywords behind the tuned computing system that can beat the best Jeopardy champions at their own game

IBM's Watson Challenge No Gimmick
January 23, 2011 Exhaustively and expensively produced, the Jeopardy-playing computer has jaded observers proclaiming a new, powerful,...

Interface: The New Productivity - Usability
January 18, 2011 Front-end design is finally handed to people who get it; now users need to learn and get involved

Technology and the Annual Budget
January 14, 2011 WATCH: 25 Top Information Managers discuss the evolution of technology and how demand management is changing the way they work

A Home for Analytics
January 12, 2011 Some think we need a shotgun marriage for BI and analytics; others say they're better off as close friends

Ultra-Large Data Systems
January 10, 2011 WATCH: For readers interested in our profile of Suzanne Yoakum-Stover, see her describe the Unified Dataspace in a keynote...

Home at the Office
January 6, 2011 With heads down already, information workers especially will increasingly come to know the good and bad of working where they...

On Building A Vision
January 5, 2011 VIDEO: 25 Top Information Managers discuss how to gather vision and consensus in a distributed organization

CSI Info-Mgmt: Profiling Predictors 2011
December 28, 2010 Unlike yearly recaps, hot topic lists for next year say something about prognosticators, including our own

Biggest Tech Losers by Market Share, 2010
December 26, 2010 Analyst Robin Bloor flips the coin to uncover the biggest losers by market cap in 2010

Five Biggest Tech Winners for 2010
December 20, 2010 Analyst Robin Bloor digs out the hottest big vendors of 2010 by market cap growth; list coincidentally represents five hot...

Information Managers Unite
December 14, 2010 Our first 25 Top manager event tells me it's time for us to create some kind of group and resource directory as an asset to...

A Holiday Data Parable
December 7, 2010 A story about how we filter data, how filters can make misinformation worse and a reminder that sensationalism can obscure...

New Business Demands Innate Skills
November 30, 2010 Rather than fret the data glut, managers need to socialize productively as collaborators and partners in the new distributed...

Jury Awards Oracle $1.3 Billion
November 23, 2010 SAP will seek motions or appeal to overturn "largest amount ever" judgment in illegal software download ruling

Passion For ... Data
November 23, 2010 It's good to remember that the pursuit of an idea is much more interesting than the latest fad or device

What is Ultra Large Scale Infrastructure?
November 17, 2010 Researcher says the time is right for a rigorous theoretical scientific approach that contemplates the sphere of data in its...

Oracle CEO Ellison Testifies in SAP Case
November 8, 2010 Claims improper downloads by former SAP subsidiary was worth $4 billion to enterprise software rival

Welcome and Introduction from the Symposium Chairman
November 7, 2010

Overheard: The Net Value of Data
November 1, 2010 IT needs to stop being a vending machine, attach value to information created, and distribute accordingly

As Goes Governance...
November 1, 2010 Like corporate governance, data governance works in proportion to how well we deliver what we profess to embrace

Is Data Science?
November 1, 2010 If ultra-large scale data can reinvent military intelligence, it could change the way we see information

Business + Information + Architecture
October 28, 2010 Here's a construct of parts that makes sense; so now let's uncover how it works and roll out some meaningful examples

Microsoft Office 365: It's a Cloud! (It's Really a Service)
October 20, 2010 The underlying architecture is new, but this is still a hosted application service and ASP is just so last year

Top 10 Ways to Fail at MDM
October 12, 2010 A reverse checklist can be useful for those that think they know it all going into an MDM project

MDM Marches On
October 5, 2010 New York Summit reveals growing maturity and renewed commitment in MDM in governance, CDI, PIM

MDM Revs to top $2 billion in 2011
October 5, 2010 MDM Institute reveals top trends for coming year at MDM Summit conference event

Old Priorities, New Urgency
October 1, 2010 With electronic health care records at the core, providers are scrambling to find and align resources for deadlines and...

Barbie Tech Without The Geek
September 29, 2010 Seriously, if kid pop culture predicts future zeitgeist, toy maker Mattel did us a good turn by paying attention to Computer...

Overheard: Big Risk, Big Responsibilities
September 23, 2010 The big view of risk calls for a variety of skills, but doesn't ensure the message is heeded

Enterprise Software Revs $232 Billion in 2010
September 22, 2010 Gartner forecasts 4.5 percent growth over 2009, recovery patchy, highest growth in emerging markets

Enterprise Apps By Design
September 21, 2010 The big software vendors survive maturity and burdens of scale by honoring the 80/20 rule and working with users

HP Settles Suit Against Hurd, Oracle
September 20, 2010 Ex-HP CEO surrenders $14 million in stock options; companies pledge to work together going forward

IBM To Acquire Netezza
September 20, 2010 $1.7 billion for analytic database/data warehouse appliance provider

Aster Announces Hybrid Database
September 15, 2010 First foray to columnar alongside row-based database applies MapReduce, MPP for high-performance analytic processing

SAP BI Analytics By Design
September 14, 2010 Industry specific analytic applications developed with customers, pointed at retail, health care, telecom, banking, defense,...

Phillips Out, Hurd In at Oracle; HP Retaliates With Lawsuit
September 7, 2010 HP claims inevitable breach of trade secrets; analyst says Hurd's hardware history a plus to Oracle

What's in a Title
September 2, 2010 CIO, CTO, Chief Risk Officer, they're less technical than ever and more a job for the corporate shrink

Midmarket BI and Data Warehousing
August 24, 2010 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

Overheard: Embedded Analytics and Next Gen Data Warehousing
August 23, 2010 Business intelligence and performance management that will increasingly be tuned for the workforce

A Web Analytics Trap
August 13, 2010 DM Radio guests tell marketers to beware the use of Web analytics as a performance judge, and not an iterative way of learning

Big Data and "Boundary Spanning"
August 11, 2010 What North Carolina State University is doing to marry fast analytic processing with calculated multi-domain expert decision...

(Really) Big Data
August 3, 2010 It's here, it's powerful, it's impressive stuff; learn about it, gain from it and don't fear if you're not hyper-processing

Reputation, Interrupted
July 29, 2010 Protecting your or your company’s good name is also an advocacy industry that social CRM won’t completely decipher

aaS You Like It
July 21, 2010 In a service-based economy, what's the last thing you'd give up owning yourself?

A Cop When You Need One
July 21, 2010 Memphis, Tennessee claims huge crime drops since deploying analysts and predictive analytics to identify hot spots and deploy...

SAP, CA Team on GRC
July 15, 2010 IT and enterprise governance, risk and compliance products merge to cross sell SAP customers and, perhaps, market at large

Technologists in Foxholes
July 13, 2010 An oddity of data management and analysis is that as we get better and faster at it, our faith in the future can slip

EMC to Acquire Greenplum
July 6, 2010 Undisclosed cash deal gives EMC full data warehousing stack; analyst predicts a new round of consolidation among appliance...

Business's IT Smackdown
July 6, 2010 If capital expenditure budgets for technology revive, business could have new plans for it

40 Vendors We're Watching in 2010
July 1, 2010 Amid an abundance of information management opportunities, some may be the pick of the litter

Overheard: The Multi-Core Problem
July 1, 2010 Data management software isn't built for modern processors and can't leverage the technology it needs

BI: Smart and Smarterer
June 29, 2010 Our latest and seemingly annual take on why BI and data warehousing remain topics of high interest and lousy execution

Entrepreneur's Market
June 22, 2010 Thanks to old-school consolidation, new vendors and service models have more influence and headroom to grow than we'd ever...

MDM: Talent In Demand
June 16, 2010 Tools and vision maturing; organizational fit more important for those with skills in a sellers market

Automation and Obsolescence
June 2, 2010 HP bets a billion that automation drives the lowest cost and highest quality for all; what does that mean for the skilled job...

HP Converges, Automates Data Centers
June 1, 2010 Billion-dollar restructuring will eliminate 9,000 positions and consolidate customer data centers by half

BI Goes Back to B2B
May 25, 2010 What IBM's deal for Sterling Commerce tells us about connectivity, timeliness and the emergence of a data economy

CMIS a Winner for Content Management Customers
May 12, 2010 A fast-moving standards body approves an interoperability protocol that will make a lot of ECM/document management customers...

Risky Business
May 4, 2010 A risk management expert believes that the business landscape of the future will be increasingly influenced by calculated...

Specialists Challenging ECM Leaders
April 30, 2010 Real Story Group finds a healthy document management landscape bringing change and opportunity to buyers

Systemic Risk: It's Also Personal
April 27, 2010 The Iceland volcano cost money to a lot of people I know and ought to be a wakeup call to revisit our self-perceived immunity

Dive Into Open Source
April 22, 2010 Commercialized open source software brings competent low-risk technology to BI, but requires understanding, diligence and...

Overheard: SaaS and Open Source: Brothers in Arms
April 22, 2010 With similar agendas and challenges, there’s more in common with these models than you think

Recalling the Bottom-Up Enterprise
April 21, 2010 Enterprise vision is fine, but too much top-down influence can cost us opportunities and send some of the best ideas out the...

Talk to the Hand
April 6, 2010 A researcher finds we're talking faster and interrupting each other more often; are we becoming our own content recyclers?

Pentaho Revs Data Integration
March 30, 2010 4.0 release touts single agile development environment for ETL, modeling, front-end reporting and visualization

Governance: A Rulebook, Not a Playbook
March 23, 2010 We need policies and controls to faithfully surface data, but let's not confuse this with knowing the actual value we are...

"Metadata, Is That What It's Called?"
March 16, 2010 About the Fox show "24" and how TV tests tech terms to mainstream the geeks among us

Overheard: Whither Open Source BI?
March 12, 2010 Delayed but steady adoption as awareness grows; open source aligns toward proprietary software and service models

Moving On With Analytics
March 9, 2010 Catching up with Tom Davenport and his latest book, it looks like we're squaring up analytical prowess with our slower culture...

Vendors: What's Not To Like
March 2, 2010 Dresner survey churns top 10 peeves list in David Letterman fashion; we share them with you here

Meaningful Use to Drive Health IT Spending
March 1, 2010 HIMSS annual Leadership Survey sees IT spending rebounding to 2008 levels, stimulus money prompts more spending

Best in BI? Ask the Crowd
February 23, 2010 Former Gartner analyst Howard Dresner is running his own customer experience survey for participants to decide what business...

Overheard: Lawyers, Discovery and Money
February 18, 2010 All parties to the legal process need IT education to contain the costs and risks associated with electronic discovery

Worst-Kept Secrets
February 16, 2010 It's not so much that columnar databases and in-memory are hot or that MPP and virtualization won, it's the rate of change...

IDC: Data Warehouse Shakeup
February 15, 2010 Analyst predicts five-year horizon will shift data warehousing to columnar; OLTP moves to in-memory

Who Let the Dollars Out?
February 8, 2010 2010 has already delivered a list of top acquisitions; drivers include maturity, customer acquisition and cross-selling, but...

Big Brother For Hire
February 2, 2010 With CIA profilers reportedly moonlighting to monitor earnings calls for "deception detection," speech analytics vendors are...

Oracle - Looking Back to the Future
January 27, 2010 Integrated stack for push into high-end data centers; chairman Larry Ellison says vision "same as IBM's in 1960"

Data as Commerce
January 26, 2010 Just like iTunes, granular Web data services are just beginning to sprout into a new transactional data economy

Open Source MDM From Talend
January 25, 2010 New platform solution promises domain agnostic data integration, data quality, workflow and stewardship at "disruptive"...

Hedge Like the Vendors Do
January 19, 2010 Deconstruct your daily tech briefing, find your self-interest and use last week’s HP/Microsoft news as a learning...

HP, Microsoft in $250 Million Partnership
January 13, 2010 Steve Ballmer, Mark Hurd detail plans for "next generation of business computing" with "infrastructure to application" model...

Jaspersoft Enterprise Edition
January 12, 2010 New open source paid-model BI platform includes data integration, OLAP, in-memory analysis, ad hoc reporting and management...

Next-Gen Jobs
January 12, 2010 Parents want to see their kids with a happy and successful career, but these days there's not a lot of useful advice

The Movable IT Budget
January 5, 2010 Not that it will change overnight, but an annual budgeting cycle for IT spending might not stand the test of time

Overheard: AVATAR's Data Center
January 2, 2010 Processing visual effects for the blockbuster movie shows how data center designs can differ by purpose

Net Expectations
January 2, 2010 What a Web data service economy implies for business

Data Center Lessons from AVATAR
December 29, 2009 Weta Digital’s Paul Gunn runs a state of the art facility but doesn’t play by all the new rules

A Spot Market for Computing
December 22, 2009 Amazon’s 12/14 launch of Spot Instances for EC2 is something we might want to mark on our calendar as a minor historic...

Processing AVATAR
December 21, 2009 A thoroughbred of a data center at Weta Digital sits behind intense visual effects in the blockbuster movie and the creative...

Wisdom That Isn't
December 15, 2009 If you're going to tackle a new center of excellence or competency center, at some point you're going to have to throw out the...

Data Governance Moves Upstream
December 8, 2009 Don't sweat data governance, make it a measure of political maturity to challenge your peers and look for tools to help your...

Clouds: Both Sides Now
November 17, 2009 With my inbox groaning under overload, two themes have emerged: some will watch the establishment evolve (Goldman Sachs has...

My First Windows 7 Moment
November 10, 2009 It might have been software or an act of providence, but it appears that Windows 7 saved my job

Informatica 9 Released
November 10, 2009 Integration platform includes common metadata core, tools for business end users and IT collaboration, SOA-based data services

Overheard: Cloud Computing - Learn It Or Lose
November 4, 2009 Your own company is probably experimenting with the cloud; could an average Joe make your business model obsolete?

Overheard: Decision-Making Without Borders
November 1, 2009 Big thinkers are calling for more sources of data - and tools - to contextualize information

From Search to Explore
November 1, 2009 Information on demand depends on a growing base of content assets and services and the cut-to-chase script looks increasingly...

Going Long
November 1, 2009 Dallas Cowboys Merchandising pulls off comeback win with real-time metrics

SAP Updates Business Objects Explorer
October 28, 2009 New release agnostic to non-SAP data files; partnership with Teradata also announced at Vienna TechEd event

Cisco Acquires SaaS Security Provider
October 27, 2009 ScanSafe goes to networking provider in $183 million deal; portfolio of cloud-based Web security services grows

Amazon Launches Relational DB Service
October 27, 2009 RDS products for building and scaling relational data; lower EC2 pricing and new high-memory instances also released

New Ideas for Old Information
October 23, 2009 Software/service providers are a natural fit for a growing archival headache; for many organizations, the cloud looks like the...

The API is the New Network
October 19, 2009 The growing glut of Web services will increasingly flow not through browsers, but through application programming interfaces

Metator, Librarian, Gatekeeper, Broker
October 12, 2009 The information function in the organization is a network of the people who really know what’s going on;...

Help Wanted: Metator
October 5, 2009 As data and projects become collaborative, a metadata editor sounds like someone you’d like to have, and maybe wouldn't...

Text Mining for Social Media
September 28, 2009 Clarabridge release aims to blend social media content with internal enterprise feedback for customer data analysis

The Death of Business News Reporting
September 25, 2009 The six words above are misleading, I’m really trying to get your attention to tell you about something about business...

Resolving Content and BI
September 21, 2009 Experts say search, information extraction and text analytics can close the structured/unstructured divide; can it really be...

Dell to Acquire Perot Systems
September 21, 2009 $3.9 billion deal for IT services provider signals diversification around hardware/storage and platform for future acquisitions

BI Boot Camp
September 16, 2009 A quick introduction to BI terminology

BI’s March to Health Care
September 15, 2009 Rays of light but no ready cure as institutions wrangle with foundational requirements of business intelligence

In Sickness and in Health Care
September 14, 2009 Blue-sky challenges and benefits of health care data management will touch individuals and economies

Overheard: Health Care Data Governance
September 14, 2009 As data piles up, integration is not enough: only data governance can address health care's ills

HP and Informatica Team Up for BI
September 9, 2009 Integrated infrastructure and integration products may be testing waters for HP’s service arm and entry into software...

Oracle Upgrades 11g Database
September 1, 2009 Release 2 includes grid pooling, compression/partitioning and in-memory capabilities for data warehousing

Data Builds Out in A Perfect Match
August 25, 2009 Global shipping dynamo BDP International connects with SunGard data center and availability services

Overheard: In Data Centers, The Fruitful Multiply
August 21, 2009 Managed hosting and colocation services are keeping busy in middling economic times

MDM Data Quality as a Process
August 17, 2009 Weyerhaeuser keeps records up to the minute with business rules to address quality at the point of data entry

From Analytical to Transactional MDM
August 10, 2009 Cisco Systems aims at operational insight that looks at the customer experience across multiple transaction platforms

PIM for Partners
August 3, 2009 Polycom is hoping to use product information management to shorten sales cycles in a complex, regulated global marketplace

Jobs, Process and Metrics
July 27, 2009 As business process and infrastructure outsourcing continues to trickle up in organizations, internal process owners could...

And Now For Something Completely Different
July 20, 2009 What really impacts our business/technology careers falls into a scope greater than the sum of our expertise and skills; for...

The Real Thing?
July 16, 2009 Coca-Cola Enterprises bets heavily on BI to give its bottling empire a much-needed pop

TransUnion LOB Adopts API Management
July 15, 2009 Consumer Connect initiative will use Sonoa ServiceNet to manage and track sensitive consumer information, syndicate SOA Web...

Job Uncertainty Times Two
July 13, 2009 A weak job market and poorly identified roles are making life dodgy for IT information workers; don’t expect human...

Overheard: DM Software Redux
July 9, 2009 Data management software is back in the forefront of pitches from several new vendors

Big Brains, Soft Skills
July 6, 2009 As information career paths disintegrate and reform, the convergence of business and technology finds people creating their...

CDI: Rubber Meets Road
June 29, 2009 At MDM Summit in Toronto, random pearls of wisdom from Ed Unrau at Canadian Tire Financial Services

Will Google Gobble Web Analytics?
June 22, 2009 The short answer is yes and it's surprising the titan of search hasn't done so already

MicroStrategy’s Big Picture
June 10, 2009 With official release of free reporting suite, the BI vendor offers a clever reverse consolidation path for customers

Coca-Cola Goes Freestyle
June 8, 2009 RFID-powered vending machines that let customers mix their own water, juices and sodas hoped to provide data for new product...

When Will Eco Apps Go Mainstream?
June 1, 2009 Examples of transaction and performance management based systems to manage Eco Footprint are showing up in Europe; vendors...

Things I Need to Do My Job
May 26, 2009 The tyranny of technology moves slowly and leaves the best bits behind for a longer run than people appreciate

Overheard: Survival BI
May 19, 2009 Veteran BI consultant and author, Cindi Howson, sees vendor repackaging as a way to meet tight client spending

BI Search is Back (and Better)
May 17, 2009 Molson Coors has been testing SAP’s Business Objects Explorer release and they really like it

Bundled BI Bargains
May 11, 2009 Have a closer look at how consolidation and product maturity are paying off now for businesses with stalled IT budgets; you...

Oracle Integrates for BI
May 6, 2009 BI app release 7.9.6 adds analytic apps and runs across Oracle E-Business, Siebel, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards

AARP Says I’m Special
May 1, 2009 Just another data quality failure from the annals of direct marketing, or am I missing the point?

Stimulus Spending Meets BI
April 29, 2009 State of Arkansas works with IBM to track and report on $570 million in federal stimulus dollars for educational programs;...

Make the Whirl Go Away
April 23, 2009 What’s really going on with advances in solid-state disk drives and how far will it go?

Oracle to Buy Sun
April 20, 2009 Oracle has reached an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems

Overheard: Integration Rationalization
April 16, 2009 Gartner's integration guru makes the case for shared services and standardization

Clearing a Data Pileup
April 13, 2009 At global roadway traffic monitor ITIS, sheer volumes of information paved the way for data warehouse appliance efficiencies

Performance Goals and Compensation
April 8, 2009 Why business rarely ties outcomes to job success for managers, and, if the New York Yankees are baseball’s AIG, why...

Gathering of Clouds
March 31, 2009 With hype contained, developments in cloud computing are on display at conference

Overheard: Your Social Customer
March 24, 2009 Ex-Microsoft BI heavyweight finds his groove in the social world as CTO of Visible Technologies

Basketball Diaries
March 23, 2009 Lessons from the NCAA tournament coverage; don't drop the ball on Web content management

Pfizer's Prescription for Data
March 20, 2009 Federated integration speeds huge R&D projects at the world's largest drug manufacturer

IBM Stares at Sun
March 18, 2009 Sourced reports indicate acquisition talks underway to acquire Sun Microsystems for $6.5 to $7 billion

America’s CIO Sets Agenda
March 12, 2009 Vivek Kundra outlines plans to transform federal technology workforce, infrastructure; as he speaks, FBI searches former office

Enjoy the Chicken (and then Get Back to Work)
March 12, 2009 Reflecting on a conference, same as it ever was and still relevant

Riding the Content Technology Train
March 3, 2009 You’ll know content vendors at a glance with this clever subway map; also, Skittles turns Web site over to those crazy...

Retrospect or Hindsight
February 24, 2009 Why we're bad at benchmarking BI failures

Kickin IT Old School
February 17, 2009 Goes around, comes around; back office meets its match in tech-savvy users

Snapshot: Pervasive BI? You Wish
February 12, 2009 The 'three Bs' (business process management, business intelligence and business rules engines) are too often pursued in...

The BIg Discrepancy
February 11, 2009 An exclusive preview of the upcoming Gartner Business Intelligence Summit with conference co-chairmen John Van Decker and Kurt...

Overheard: Decisions on the Playground
February 11, 2009 Competing on Analytics author says organizations suffer from poor decision processes and outcomes

Near Real-Time Data Warehouse at Work
February 10, 2009 Fashion retailer Elie Tahari moves to five-minute refresh rates for data store with universal reporting and front-line...

White House Performance Officer Withdraws
February 3, 2009 Nancy Killefer, closely watched as nominee for chief performance officer falls to tax scandal; Daschle withdraws HHS...

SaaS Accelerates Despite Economy’s Woes
February 2, 2009 IDC reports software-as-a-service fits tactical needs of businesses; sales now projected to increase due to the economic slump

Overheard: Say Hello to SharePoint
January 29, 2009 CMS Watch founder observes that data workers are getting to know enterprise content whether they like it or not

What is Information Management?
January 29, 2009 The magazine you are holding in your hands is the result of a lot of thoughtful hard work from dedicated editors and other...

Governance. Literally.
January 29, 2009 Nationwide's structure for finance process and policy

BI Predictions 2009
January 28, 2009 Gartner sees business units taking more ownership, software as service, mashups on the rise

DM Review is now Information Management
January 21, 2009 The cat’s out of the bag: DM Review is now Information Management

Gartner: BI, BPM Top Priorities in 2009
January 15, 2009 With budgets essentially flat, business execs, CIOs turn to improving performance, “harvesting enterprise investments”

When Three-Letter Acronyms Collide
November 7, 2008 Though entry points differ, user conference provides more proof that data, process and integration cannot be siloed projects

Setting Data Free
November 6, 2008 Kognitio’s U.S. CEO eyes new roads for data warehousing in emergent delivery models and hardware designs

Simply Operational
October 31, 2008 Surgical productivity at Lahey Clinic gets a boost from business activity monitoring and role-based dashboards

Content as Dichotomy
October 29, 2008 Interwoven CEO Joe Cowan discusses the difference between Web content management and enterprise content management

Data Ownership and Job Security
October 23, 2008 MDM Summit panel discusses headcounts, projects and roles in uncertain economic climate; stewards and data owners more...

Microsoft BI: Little Big Plan
October 10, 2008 Conference points at future releases; 'managed self-service' needs a high-level message from Microsoft and consulting partners

Information Without Borders
September 22, 2008 Infogix founder Madhavan Nayar navigates the challenges of information handoffs, warns of information pollution

From Sleaze to Social
September 19, 2008 Rise of social networking demonstrates community effect, foreshadows Web content management priorities

The Velocity of eBay
August 22, 2008 Data Warehouse Institute conference presentation demonstrates the brute force of massive utility computing and analytics as a...

Handled With Care
August 21, 2008 Pitt Ohio Express tackles data quality without compromising flexible customer service.

A Forecast for Change
August 21, 2008 SAS CTO Keith Collins talks about high-performance analytics and future computing trends.

Service Without Reservation
August 15, 2008 Gaylord Entertainment leverages 'listening posts' for a qualitative view of the customer experience at its major...

A Qualitative Response
August 4, 2008 Former major-leaguer Doug Glanville talks about his career and the value of statistical correlations to models of behavior.

Microsoft Acquires DATAllegro
July 25, 2008 First major acquisition in the data appliance market will stir further activity, analysts say.

Columns in the Clouds
July 23, 2008 Vertica CEO Ralph Breslauer takes analytic databases into the new world of hosted data infrastructure.

When Fast is Not Enough
July 18, 2008 Data management and value-add services are both core to the success of Shazam, the nation’s sixth-largest electronic...

Who Needs Science?
July 10, 2008 Chris Anderson’s latest thesis argues that huge volumes of data provide their own answers even if there is no hypothesis...

Send in the Clouds
June 26, 2008 Cloud computing will impact the data warehousing/BI equation, give rise to self-service infrastructure and a variety of...

Send in the Clouds
June 25, 2008 Cloud computing will impact the data warehousing/BI equation, give rise to self-service and a host of providers;...

Channel Synergy
June 23, 2008 Chrysler Group improves relationships, builds a network effect with dealer scorecards.

The View from the Middle
June 23, 2008 McKesson Pharmaceutical merges business and IT roles, focuses on business process and overall efficiency.

Health Care's Knowledge Quest
June 20, 2008 Data integration supports research at Children's Hospital, Boston.

New Landscape, Same Story
June 19, 2008 Rather than entrench, Information Builders CEO Gerry Cohen sees opportunity in the condensed BI playing field.

Better Tools, Better Advisors
June 16, 2008 Raymond James Financial serves customers by way of infrastructure for advisors and management.

IT Futures and Tech Populism
June 12, 2008 At Forrester conference, the mix of in-house and hosted application shifts, while savvy users self-provision collaboration and...

Message in a Bottle
June 2, 2008 Pepsi distributor Gillette Group gets a granular view of distribution.

Selling Success
May 29, 2008 LexisNexis centralizes compensation plans and sales management strategy in a heady growth environment.

I’m Here. No I’m Not
May 28, 2008 Social networks are beginning to share information connected to user identities, but not in the way capitalists had hoped;...

I’m Here. No I’m Not.
May 22, 2008 Social networks are beginning to share information connected to user identities, but not in the way capitalists had hoped;...

Rack ‘em Up
May 20, 2008 Stuart Frost, founder and CEO of DATAllegro, rides the data warehouse appliance wave.

Process Evangelist
May 19, 2008 Pitney Bowes examines business processes at the enterprise level.

The CFO’s Pain
May 7, 2008 Raise your hand if you’ve grown to hate planning, budgeting and forecasting

Real-Time Realities
May 1, 2008 Maxtor aims at the 'right' real-time for synchronizing data and business functions.

The Appliance Mart
April 24, 2008 Data warehouse appliances are beginning to tip the scales in the enterprise data warehouse business

Business Objects Apologizes to Customers
April 23, 2008 Some clients left in lurch as BI software vendor falls short on deliverables

Built For a Purpose
April 14, 2008 Citigroup Global Consumer Group builds IT architecture for real-time customer insight.

Perfect Pitch
April 14, 2008 Cox Communications improves selling strategy with predictive analytics.

MDM Summit: Something for Everyone
April 10, 2008 There were a few very high-level takeaways for people just starting out with MDM.

Quality Control
April 10, 2008 Sanjay Rao, GM of Identity Systems, a Nokia company, transforms the focus from identity matching to data quality.

MDM Summit: Something for Everyone
April 10, 2008 Master data management is “horses for courses” with widely-ranging adoption curves, but so far, the customer comes...

Unstructured Realities; A Conversation
March 27, 2008 Unstructured and structured data different animals at the core; an update on workflow, portals and email management from CMS...

Design, Develop, Manage
March 17, 2008 Embarcadero President and CEO Wayne Williams describes the parameters and the future of the database tool market.

The New Online Reality at Fox Sports
March 14, 2008 Fox sports interactive listens to the sports fan with Web analytics.

Thinking Big at Casual Male
March 14, 2008 Dennis Hernreich leads a multichannel strategy at Casual Male Retail Group.

Yes, BI is Still Evolving
March 12, 2008 TDWI conference reflects innovation and problem-solving focus driving a strong market

Process Meets Performance Management
February 28, 2008 ProcessWorld conference provides evidence of future connections between business intelligence and process management

Process U
February 22, 2008 Widener University adds BPM curriculum to core graduate studies.

A Handle On IT at Hallmark
February 22, 2008 Hallmark pits tools, metrics against a growing portfolio of information technology.

Mastering PIM
February 21, 2008 Product information management is all about context, says Silver Creek Systems President and CEO Barbara Mowry.

The 800-Pound Spreadsheet
February 14, 2008 Improper use of spreadsheets can occur accidentally or by design; a little knowledge and an Access database can be a dangerous...

Case Study: Food for Thought
February 13, 2008 Alabama Farmers Cooperative gets big boost in productivity and inventory management with Web-based reporting tool.

Case Study: Always Ready
February 13, 2008 The U.S. Coast Guard leverages data to optimize limited resources in lifesaving and security missions.

Case Study: Coping with Success
February 13, 2008 The Hillman Group leverages consolidated reporting, geographic analysis to support its hardware manufacturing/distribution...

Gloom and Doom Roundup
January 24, 2008 2008 arrives with pessimism and uncertainty, BI and software holding up

Forward Looking
January 16, 2008 Business intelligence will be automated by predictive analytics, according to Jack Noonan of SPSS Inc.

Mainstreaming Location Intelligence
January 10, 2008 Geographic Information Systems help marketing teams with regional emphasis

Data Fit to Compete
January 2, 2008 DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher discusses the convergence of data quality, master data and governance with DM Review...