Business and IT need to confront the accidental architecture addiction and resolve to work without finger-pointing.

Most companies have not identified the opportunities to leverage components to build an optimal analytic architecture.

Even the most state-of-the-art service-oriented architecture (SOA) design must accommodate legacy applications, data sources and software as a service (SaaS) applications.

Information-centric security is the new goal, and accomplishing that goal will require improvements in information security governance and architecture.

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Clients are now requesting suite solutions that move past basic campaign management.

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The level 0 hero must continuously intervene to keep an application running, often creating an obstacle to enterprise-wide sharing of data.

Everyone agrees that data quality is important, but that doesn’t make them willing to pay for it.

Investments in the online analytical processing paradigm give way to embedded of business intelligence, allowing analysts to accede to higher functions of the business.

Data governance is a key component in effective information management.

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There are many reasons why IT projects fail — several of which can be attributed to a lack of visibility into long-term project needs.

Security and compliance issues will continue to dominate IT initiatives as long as valuable data is exchanged and stored.

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Multienterprise SOAs are becoming more pervasive because they complement IT’s maturation into a key driver and strategic enabler of business growth.

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Business and IT need to confront the accidental architecture addiction and resolve to work without finger-pointing.

Most companies have not identified the opportunities to leverage components to build an optimal analytic architecture.

Adopting a customer contact optimization strategy is not easy, but it is important.

Some companies embark on a business performance management initiative but don’t even realize that is what they are doing.

Investments in the online analytical processing paradigm give way to embedded of business intelligence, allowing analysts to accede to higher functions of the business.

Data governance is a key component in effective information management.

Everyone agrees that data quality is important, but that doesn’t make them willing to pay for it.

The level 0 hero must continuously intervene to keep an application running, often creating an obstacle to enterprise-wide sharing of data.

Clients are now requesting suite solutions that move past basic campaign management.

In every decision-making process, there is room for innovation, creativity and aha moments of profound insight - even if we try to plan each of our decisions.

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

This article describes what the dimension manager and fact provider do, and how to configure business intelligence tools to use the integrated EDW.

Information-centric security is the new goal, and accomplishing that goal will require improvements in information security governance and architecture.

Even the most state-of-the-art service-oriented architecture (SOA) design must accommodate legacy applications, data sources and software as a service (SaaS) applications.

Multienterprise SOAs are becoming more pervasive because they complement IT’s maturation into a key driver and strategic enabler of business growth.

There are many reasons why IT projects fail — several of which can be attributed to a lack of visibility into long-term project needs.

Security and compliance issues will continue to dominate IT initiatives as long as valuable data is exchanged and stored.

Product review of Big Bang's Universal Imaging Utility.

Product review of Netezza's Data Warehouse Appliance

Product review of BIReady's The Data Warehouse Generator

Product review of IBM Cognos 8 BI

Product review of Elixir Repertoire

Product review of Information Builders WebFOCUS

Product review of iQ4bis Analysis

Product review of JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite

Product review of Microsoft Business Intelligence

Product review of QlikTech QlikView

Product review of SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence Server

Product review of SL Corporation's Enterprise RTView

Product review of Sybase IQ

Product review of Talend Open Studio