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Scalable Data Quality: A Seven-Step Plan for Any Size Organization

Posted in: Master Data Management - Jun 20, 2012

Instill trust in the quality of your data. With the increasing complexity of data, globalization, and the need for accurate, real-time information, data quality plays a very important role in any organization's IT initiative. Trusted data gives businesses more power to make accurate business decisions. However, data quality does not happen by accident. It requires a plan that addresses any weak points in your data management process and anticipates the future needs of the organization. This white paper describes the seven steps you need to develop a plan for data quality—one that scales to growing business needs.top

Data Discovery Meets Search and Social

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Jun 19, 2012

Data discovery is one of the hottest categories in the BI market today, allowing business users to explore data visually, with minimal IT support or extensive data modeling. As the variety of data explodes, decision-makers want to combine data from the data warehouse with unstructured content such as customer comments, resumes, tweets, and blogs.top

Ten Mistakes to Avoid In Big Data

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Jun 18, 2012

Marc Demarest takes a look at the 10 most common missteps and fatal actions he’s seeing now as the big data revolution gets under way.top

Myths and Mandates for Self-Service BI

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Jun 13, 2012

Many companies have self-service BI as their vision for empowering users. But empowerment can come at the price of overwhelming business users accustomed to receiving only a fixed report. top

Myths and Mandates for Self-Service BI

Posted in: Business Intelligence - Jun 13, 2012

Many companies have self-service BI as their vision for empowering users. But empowerment can come at the price of overwhelming business users accustomed to receiving only a fixed report. top