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How To Get A Data Quality Initiative Off The Ground
by Antone Gonsalves
- August 7, 2008
Overly ambitious data-quality professionals get shot down because trusted data will not directly increase revenue, reduce costs or improve operational efficiencies, key criteria for getting funding approved, Forrester Research says. SQL Server 2008 Available For Free Public Trial by Paul McDougall - August 7, 2008 Users looking to try out Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 can download a fully functional copy free of charge and run it for up to 180 days. BI Executive Bill Baker Leaves Microsoft by Doug Henschen - August 5, 2008 Long-serving executive helped grow the business intelligence product line from its roots in Microsoft SQL Server. Actuate Upgrade Bridges Strategic and Operational Performance Management by Doug Henschen - August 5, 2008 With an interface for every user type and eight extendable BIRT report layouts, Views 8 app is said to go from strategic scorecards down to operational exception reports. SAS Acquires SaaS-Based Specialist in Dynamic Price Optimization by Doug Henschen - August 4, 2008 Deal nets online profit optimization platform. New global practice will branch out from hotels to events, online advertising and other potential markets. Kimball University: Eight Recommendations for International Data Quality by Ralph Kimball - August 1, 2008 Language, culture, and country-by-country compliance and privacy requirements are just a few of the tough data quality problems global organizations must solve. Start by addressing data accuracy at the source and adopting an MDM strategy, then follow these six other best-practice approaches. IBM Brings Cloud Computing To Earth With Massive New Data Centers by Richard Martin - August 1, 2008 Big Blue plans to build a data center in North Carolina and open a "cloud computing center" in Tokyo at a cost of nearly $400 million. Dow Jones Connects On-Demand BI App To LinkedIn Social Network by Antone Gonsalves - August 1, 2008 Contacts from the business-oriented social network can be imported into G2, which maps relationships among people to help the user discover potential business opportunities. HP, Intel, Yahoo Join Government, Academia In Cloud Computing Research by Antone Gonsalves - July 29, 2008 Each of the founding members will host a cloud-computing infrastructure largely based on HP computers and Intel processors in six data centers. Competitors React to the Microsoft-DatAllegro Deal by Doug Henschen - July 28, 2008 Oracle stays quiet while Greenplum, Netezza and Teradata say data scalability alone won't satisfy customers. Tableau Takes on Geospatial Analysis by Doug Henschen - July 25, 2008 Tableau 4.0 upgrade adds mapping features as well as collaboration and usability enhancements. Microsoft Acquires DatAllegro to Scale Up SQL Server Deployments by Doug Henschen - July 24, 2008 Deal validates tectonic shift in data warehousing, puts pressure on Oracle and independent appliance vendors. Sybase Reports 15% Revenue Growth To Record Level by Charles Babcock - July 24, 2008 Its pace of growth exceeded the 12.6% rate of growth for the database market as a whole during 2007 and most of its relational database competitors last year. Business Objects Says It's Cracking Midmarket for BI by Doug Henschen - July 23, 2008 SME-oriented Edge Series hits version 3.0. Crystal Report Server gains Office integrations and central management console. Combined sales grow 18 percent. Amazon S3 Crash Raises Doubts Among Cloud Customers by Thomas Claburn - July 21, 2008 The company's Simple Storage Service suffered a similar outage lasting about two hours in February, an incident that at the time led many to question its dependability. |
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