WEBCAST - In this webcast featuring best-selling author, Len Silverston, learn how to implement universal patterns for data modeling to improve management flexibility. Gain insight into various modeling choices to meet your organization's needs. Discover how to improve quality and reduce management costs by re-using patterns.
Posted: September 11, 2009 | Premiered: September 11, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Business Processes | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Modeling | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Databases | Master Data Management

PODCAST - In this podcast featuring best-selling author, Len Silverston, learn how to implement universal patterns for data modeling to meet changing information compliance regulations. Gain insight into various modeling options to meet your organization's needs. Discover how to improve quality and reduce management costs by re-using patterns.
Posted: September 11, 2009 | Premiered: September 11, 2009


Topics:  Application Development | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Modeling | Data Warehouses | Databases | Master Data Management | Regulatory Compliance

WHITE PAPER - This white paper reviews the state of the market for data integration for 2008 and 2009. It defines data integration, discusses the trends in the data integration market, and provides lessons learned from real implementations.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: November 20, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Data Integration | Master Data Management | SOA | SOA Governance

WHITE PAPER - Database growth, long-term data retention regulations and storage requirements increase operational costs. Yet, archiving complex relational data poses many challenges. Optim Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data practical and desirable.
Posted: September 4, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  CIOs | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Storage | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Email Archiving | Information Management | Master Data Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organization’s requirements.
Posted: September 4, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Application Life-Cycle Management | Applications Management | Backups | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | PeopleSoft (Product)

WHITE PAPER - The following paper outlines seven ways that data governance programs can help manage costs and presents a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for these contributions.
Posted: July 24, 2009 | Published: July 24, 2009


Topics:  Compliance Best Practices | Cost Benefit Analysis | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Stewardship | Master Data Management | Project Management | ROI

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts, and presents an ROI formula you can use in those circumstances where it's important to quantify the value of data governance efforts.
Posted: July 24, 2009 | Published: July 24, 2009


Topics:  Compliance Audits | Compliance Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Quality | Data Stewardship | HIPAA Compliance | Master Data Management | Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

WHITE PAPER - There's a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools, rather than having data and other information isolated and managed by independent teams using their own set of management tools.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Data Governance | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Resource Management | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Information Management | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Interoperability | Master Data Management | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - EIM is the effort and practice of reaching across all data and application silos embedded in the organization's operating infrastructure; then binding those repositories together into one effective information management environment. This white paper will discuss metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data migration...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Master Data Management | Metadata | Storage Resource Management

WHITE PAPER - Faced with budget cuts In today's economic environment, how can IT maintain service levels and continue to provide value to business? Smart IT decision-makers are investing in master data management.
Posted: February 20, 2009 | Published: February 20, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Center Management | Data Governance | Data Storage | Database Administration | IT Managers | Master Data Management | SAP (Product) | Service Level Management

WHITE PAPER - Data migration can be defined as transferring of data between storage types, formats or computer systems, it is required when organizations or individuals change computer systems or upgrade to new systems.
Posted: February 11, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Warehouses | Database Management | Master Data Management | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Hospitals from across the world are facing increased pressure to improve operations from multiple directions. What is needed is a new generation of business intelligence (BI) tools and applications designed with the health care sector in mind, capable of integrating cross and inter-departmental processes and information.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Health Care Industry | Master Data Management | Metadata | Metrics

WHITE PAPER - This paper focuses on what is master data, why it is needed, how to get started in managing it, and methodologies for implementing master data management.
Posted: January 5, 2009 | Published: December 24, 2008


Topics:  Customer Data Management | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Synchronization | Manufacturing | Master Data Management | Sales | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 5, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Governance | Data Quality | Information Management | Master Data Management | Metadata | SOA