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

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript compares two leading data modeling tools and demonstrates how advanced data modeling improves productivity, standards compliance and knowledge sharing.
Posted: July 20, 2009 | Published: July 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Management Software | Data Migration | Data Modeling | Data Modeling Languages | Data Visualization | Database Management Software | Knowledge Management Software | Reporting Software

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This presentation transcript features Brian Babineau, senior analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. Today Badineau would like to talk to you a little bit about driving efficiency within your data center and how you can reduce cost by reducing the amount of duplicate data that maybe in your environment.
Posted: July 9, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Data Deduplication | Data Governance | Data Management | IT Governance | IT Management | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers

IT BRIEFING - A researcher at The Data Warehousing Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do about it? Enterprise search software incorporates unstructured documents into the same architecture as classic reports.
Posted: June 22, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Management | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management | Document Management | Enterprise Search Software

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 - Today, businesses must work smarter, not just harder - and to do it, they must use information to compete. With ever-greater demands on data resources, organizations need to derive greater value from their existing information.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Integration | Business Intelligence | Business Performance Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Globalization | Information Management | Information Management Software | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Knowledge Management

WHITE PAPER - Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. This IDC white paper discusses the growing body of evidence suggesting a direct link between investment in business analytics solutions and organizational performance.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Spend Management

WHITE PAPER - With business units demanding more access to corporate data, IT is pressured to deliver. Yet current business intelligence (BI) and data warehouse systems only examine specific quantifiable data. This white paper from Business Objects, explores the growth trend of unstructured data and examines the many benefits of unstructured data analysis.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Visualization | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Decision Support Databases | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Knowledge Management | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture. It outlines requirements for a software platform for supporting such an architecture, and, as an example, reviews the BusinessObjects“ Data Services XI Release 3 platform.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Center Management | Data Compression | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Management | Workgroups

WHITE PAPER - SAP® solutions for governance, risk, and compliance help you institutionalize compliance throughout the enterprise. Across operational, financial, global trade, and environmental compliance activities, you can reduce costs and risks while boosting productivity and increasing your competitive advantage.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Compliance (Finance) | Compliance Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Data quality is an elusive subject that can defy measurement and yet be critical enough to derail any single IT project, strategic initiative, or even a company as a whole. This paper from Business Objects examines an overall approach to data quality ROI including 6 key steps to help you realize tangible ROI on your data quality initiative.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Content Management | Customer Data Management | Data Auditing | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Profiling | Data Quality | Enterprise Resource Management | ROI

WHITE PAPER - According to a September 2006 benchmarking survey conducted by the Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) and SAP on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC ), most organizations today have a reactive approach to GRC management - a fire-drill method of channeling precious resources and management attention to address specific regulatory...
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Architectures | Business Intelligence | Business Structures | Compliance (Finance) | Data Governance | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Regulatory Compliance | Risk Assessment | Risk Management | Supply Chain Intelligence

WHITE PAPER - Direct marketing is about communicating a message to a specific prospect or customer. This white paper from Business Objects, an SAP company, focuses on these concepts as they pertain to marketing, and particularly as they are supported by data quality functions inside of the broader EIM framework.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  CRM | CRM Best Practices | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Quality | Database Management | Direct Marketing | Direct Sales Channels | Enterprise Resource Management | SAP (Product) | Storage Resource Management

CASE STUDY - O'Neill is a lifestyle brand focused on boardriding products. To address its challenges with tape-based backups and growing data volumes, O'Neill turned to Data Domain.
Posted: May 26, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Compression | Data Governance | Data Recovery | Data Replication | Data Storage | Tape Backups | Tape Drives | Tape Libraries

ANALYST REPORT - In this white paper, Jon Oltsik, Principal Analyst at ESG, shows you where to start, how to focus on the real threats to data, and what actions you can take today to make a meaningful contribution to stopping data breaches. This is must read advice for storage and security professionals.
Posted: May 21, 2009 | Published: May 21, 2009


Topics:  Access Control | Data Encryption | Data Governance | Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | Data Security | Information Security | Security Hardware | Storage Security | Tape Backups