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Can HP Neoview Survive and Thrive?
12. 3.2008

Mark Smith

HP has for many years capitalized on the data warehouse industry through its server and storage technologies, but in recent years has launched the HP Neoview data warehouse to play in the software and appliance aspect of the industry. While HP was out of the gate in 2007 with Neoview and appeared to have a rosy future, much has changed in the last year...

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David Linthicum

IBM's Cloud Conflict of Interest
12. 2.2008
I have no issue with IBM driving into the world of cloud computing — I figured it would. But just think about the larger hardware and software players — such as IBM and Microsoft, who are now moving toward the cloud — and the potential conflicts that could occur. In essence, your cable TV provider is offering to show you how to move to Satellite TV.

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RSS Is the New Personalization
11.24.2008

Kas Thomas

A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest. It turns out to be a nicely formatted aggregation page for Google blogs... The point worth emphasizing is that as Web content becomes more granular, compositional, and personalizable (not to mention more perishable), subscribability becomes a design consideration.

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Doug Henschen

Making Money With Mashups
11.21.2008
I'm back from this week's Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA, and I came away impressed with both the event and my first real "unconference" experience. The 300 or so (mostly) developers attending were not only passionate and engaged, they drove much of the content, and at least 14 whipped up entries for the climax of the event, the Best Mashup Contest.

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EVENTS
• Kimball University: Dimensional Modeling In Depth
Washington D.C. (Arlington, VA)
September 30-October 3, 2008

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RESOURCE LINKS

Lead Generation
Eloqua's lead and demand generation software develops better leads.

Document Management System
Document management integrated in Windows, Office, Outlook, SharePoint

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INSIGHT

Nine Choices on the Road to BI Solution Centers
December 1, 2008
by Boris Evelson and James Kobielus, Forrester Research
Forrester Research says BI Solution Centers offer a business-governed, solutions-focused edge over BI competency centers. Here are nine key considerations you'll face when building your BISC.

The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come
November 15, 2008
by Charles Babcock
The problems that made open source code impractical for many businesses are falling away. Add in the 'cheaper' factor, and this should get interesting.

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INFO MANAGEMENT NEWS & ANALYSIS

Gallup Extends BI to the World of Research
Famous polling firm taps Oracle BI Enterprise Edition for internal reporting and customer self-service access to research results.

SAP, Business Objects Offer Joint Data Migration Services
The latest offering consists of a framework, templates, methodology, tools and expertise in moving data from multiple computing environments to an SAP ERP system.

Panorama Taps Google Apps For Collaboration In Reporting
Panaorma is using Google Apps' spreadsheets within NovaView SharedViews to make it possible for customers and partners to share reports by simply clicking on a button.

Amazon Opens SimpleDB To Unlimited Public Beta
To help entice businesses to at least try out its cloud computing-integrated database service, Amazon is offering a free tier of usage for the next six months.

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WHITE PAPERS

•Working Green with Digital Libraries

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•Ingres and Forrester: Open or Closed? Why You Need a Strategy for Open Source in Your Organization

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•ITIL V3: Making Business Services Serve the Business

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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TOPICS

The Information Management channel offers thought leadership from experts including Rajan Chandras, Mark Madsen, Alan Pelz-Sharpe and The Kimball Group. You'll also find news coverage, trend analysis, Q&A interviews and case studies on the following topics:

Database Servers and Management

Data Integration

Data Quality, Cleansing and Master Data Management

Data Warehousing

Enterprise Content Management and Portals

Privacy & Security

Search and Information Retrieval

Taxonomy, Categorization and Classification

Unstructured Data Management & Text Mining

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