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Analysis: Behind the SAP-Teradata Accord

Posted in: Business Intelligence - May 06, 2009

Last week's Teradata-SAP partnership will benefit joint customers and possibly create additional sales opportunities for Teradata.top

The Case for Rationalizing Your Data Integration Toolset

Posted in: Master Data Management - May 06, 2009

Should organizations step up their efforts to rationalize their collection of DI tools? Yes, Gartner researchers say, but not for the reasons you might think.top

Looking Inward: Effective Householding with Business Intelligence

Posted in: Master Data Management - May 06, 2009

Using householding techniques aimed inward can give enterprises better views of themselves and where cost savings can be found.top

TDWI Checklist Report Series

Posted in: Master Data Management - May 04, 2009

TDWI Checklist Reports provide an overview of success factors for a specific project in business intelligence, data warehousing, or a related data management discipline. Companies may use this overview to get organized before beginning a project or to identify goals and areas of improvement for current projects. Most Checklist Reports list the technology requirements of a particular best practice or project type, but the series may also cover anything that makes a good list, including user best practices, staff members, skill sets, tool types, user constituencies, types of applications, or use cases.top

Business-to-Business Data Integration: Why B2B Data Exchange needs DI Tools and Techniques

Posted in: Master Data Management - Apr 23, 2009

Partnering companies have long exchanged data associated with supply chains and financial routing networks, and more recently with online trade exchanges, e-commerce, and business process outsourcing. Many large companies sync data across business units in a similar fashion. Applications for business-to-business (B2B) data exchange have been around for years, and many have been modernized by interoperating with platforms for enterprise application integration (EAI) and business process management (BPM). And they have begun incorporating the tools and techniques of data integration (DI). That’s so the applications can cope with the numerous data standards that are common in B2B data exchange, plus versions and variants of these. DI also gives B2B data exchange the BI, data quality, stewardship, and remediation functions it has lacked. When DI is used in this context, it’s called B2B data integration.top