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Information Management BlogsCollege and pro football championship games hint at larger data problems

Information Management BlogsThis year, BI and DS may start to get on the same page

COLUMNSituations where we may not have or need an alternate key when using a surrogate key

NewslettersThe tools and development techniques available today help just about any company with competent IT people to compete with analytics

INTERVIEW10 Minutes with Jignesh Shah, VP of middleware product marketing at Software AG, on the importance of putting process at the front of MDM initiatives, and how to get the business-side engaged

Information Management BlogsWe 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 taking place

NewslettersAt the same time that network storage is growing tremendously, users are becoming more and more dependent on having access to their information anywhere - and organizations are less tolerant of downtime

Information Management BlogsInformation Engine 9 includes data integration features that make Kalido more competitive, yet I would prefer to see more partnerships with those vendors to allow Kalido to focus where it can add the most value: managing the processes associated with data warehousing

A data warehouse is a valuable corporate asset used to envisage business strategies and make informed business decisions. The enhanced access to information that a data warehouse provides, enable an organization to make the time-critical business decisions that are required to remain competitive. Data warehousing needs a comprehensive assessment of the impact to the entire organization and development of a plan for an organized, systematic solution. As for the Quality Assurance [QA] teams, it creates an exciting new opportunity that comes once in a life time. It is nothing less than a new business paradigm, which creates a new unlimited learning opportunities required to prosper in it. As in any new paradigm, most of us are unprepared for it. That is a bad news. Good news is so is everybody else. The race is on! The most nimble of us will flourish the most. Read on, with this book you will give yourself the head start.

Industry EventsThe Data Governance Winter Conference will focus on the "how-tos" from starting a data governance and stewardship program to attaining data governance maturity.

Information Management BlogsAn analytics trainer sent a simple message with a lot of impact to a conference of data managers; some got it and others didn't

Information Management NewsMore reliance on in-memory functionality part of docket of releases that includes industry-specific apps

Web Seminars

The growing demand for real-time analytics and operational reporting against ever-increasing volumes of (“big”) data has created new demands for real-time data replication. To be successful you must:

• Keep data in the warehouse up to date and rapidly accessible
• Avoid impacting performance of the production systems from which the data is drawn
• Prevent compromising the transactional integrity of the data used for decision-making

Join Bloor Research director Philip Howard and Informatica to learn how Data Replication can help you deliver active, real-time data warehousing for real-time analytics and reporting.

During this webinar, they will discuss how a solid data replication solution can help your organization:

• Embrace the ever-expanding range of traditional and emerging source and target systems, including appliances
• Provide innovative techniques to optimize the transaction loading into the warehouse
• Support other operational needs such as zero downtime migrations

Information Management NewsThe industry utility has asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to register a new repository for data on swaps that take place in the United States only