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blogResearch shows an evolving practice with many requirements

Information Management NewsNews about new and recently released products from Jaspersoft, Oracle, MapR and more

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.

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

NewslettersData governance is an issue that should be owned and driven by the business, but for a variety of reasons it does not get the attention it deserves. Once a data governance program is in place, your information logistical process will be simpler and less complex to maintain

Information Management NewsOne of the major derivatives exchanges, Eurex will now be located in same data center as Xetra

Information Management BlogsTeradata, along with recent updates from EMC, Oracle, NetApp and Aster Data, is at the center of a trend in the information management market toward broader availability and acceptance of a range of data appliances

Information Management NewsNews about new and recently released products from Teradata, Oracle, IBM and more

Information Management NewsA BI focus in provider’s announcements, with cloud strategy to come; GridIron and Simba also release new solutions

Information Management BlogsKicks off Open World 2011 with a new data warehouse appliance specifically for BI

Web Seminars

Demand for data warehousing continues to expand. But as data volumes increase, and new applications and users are added, costs may escalate rapidly. This Webcast presents the results of independent research showing how use of IBM InfoSphere Warehouse may allow organizations to better meet demand while reducing three-year software costs by 39 to 69 percent compared to use of Oracle 11g solutions. The emphasis is placed on hard data drawn from user experiences.

Attendees will learn the following:

• The principal differences between InfoSphere Warehouse and Oracle data warehouse solutions, and how these affect bottom lines for data warehouse deployment
• How to support data warehouse growth in a more flexible and cost-effective manner than with Oracle’s conventional tools and techniques
• How InfoSphere Warehouse per terabyte pricing offers lower costs than Oracle’s processor- and user-based pricing metrics
• How to exploit the potential of DB2 data compression to reduce data warehouse size while improving performance and reducing software, storage and server costs.

Speakers:
Brian Jeffery, Managing Director, International Technology Group (ITG)
Lawrence Weber, Product Strategy & Marketing Manager, IBM Data Warehousing Business

Information Management NewsSolid-state disks still have a place, but price tag keeping many away, survey states

Information Management NewsFormer eBay CEO and gubernatorial candidate becomes third to head hardware giant in less than one year; affirms likely spinoff of PC business, handheld business shutdown