WHITE PAPER - This white paper by Dr. Walid el Abed, CEO of Global Data Excellence, discusses how an effective data strategy embedded within the business strategy can turn data into a real competitive advantage, deliver short and longer term value and enable business success and sustainability.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Published: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Automation | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | Data Stewardship | Master Data Management

WHITE PAPER - Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Management Software | Data Modeling | Data Quality | Database Management | Master Data Management | SAP (Product) | TCO

WHITE PAPER - This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Data Management | Data Migration | Data Quality | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Enterprise Content Management | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper will present you with all the information needed to make an educated decision on whether to commodity coding is right for your organization and it will help with choosing the commodity coding that fits your company.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Business Process Outsourcing | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | Database Management | Inventory Management | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Banking Industry | Business Process Management | Customer Data Management | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | Marketing | Retail Banking Services | Risk Assessment | Risk Management | Sales | Sales and Marketing Software

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on manufacturing companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in manufacturing and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Compliance Best Practices | Customer Service | Data Quality | Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry Organizations | Metadata Standards | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Business Process Outsourcing | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | ETL (Software) | Insurance Industry | Master Data Management | Risk Assessment | Risk Management

WHITE PAPER - Software can't tell you how to beat the competition, but it can determine which products and services have the greatest profit margin, who are the most productive employees, or how many pairs of socks customers buy when they purchase particular styles of shoes. Having accurate, timely data takes the guesswork out of the decision-making process.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  CEOs | CFOs | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Quality | IT Managers | Productivity | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - SAP® BusinessObjects™ Edge software is the business intelligence (BI) choice of midsize companies hoping to improve business processes, discover new opportunities and edge out the competition. It includes affordable solutions addressing just about any BI requirement, like operational reporting and analysis, dashboards and visualization.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: December 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Process Management | Dashboards | Data Integration | Data Quality | Reporting Software | SAP (Product) | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - Many manufacturers today are getting caught on the wrong side of a technology adoption wave that is quickly gaining momentum. This benchmark study is a roadmap for reducing overall manufacturing costs through the utilization of manufacturing technologies.
Posted: October 26, 2009 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  Competition | Cost Benefit Analysis | Dashboards | Data Quality | ERP | Manufacturing Execution Systems | Manufacturing Industry | Performance Testing

WHITE PAPER - For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: October 12, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Quality | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Administrators | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | ETL (Software)

WHITE PAPER - This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications.
Posted: October 12, 2009 | Published: October 12, 2009


Topics:  Application Performance Management | Data Center Management | Data Classification | Data Collection | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Quality | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Management

WHITE PAPER - In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: December 11, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Governance | Data Management | Data Migration | Data Quality | Master Data Management | Risk Management | Software

WHITE PAPER - This whitepaper will demonstrate why Data Services are a foundation requirement for enterprise SOA deployments by describing how just how valuable, and complex, business data is for the businesses that rely on it.
Posted: October 1, 2009 | Published: February 1, 2009


Topics:  BPEL | Data Integration | Data Management Software | Data Quality | ESB | Master Data Management | Oracle (Product) | SOA

WHITE PAPER - Critical master data management (MDM) functionality can be easily overlooked when request for proposals (RFPs) are narrowly focused on a single business data type. Ensure success by avoiding 10 costly mistakes when writing your RFP.
Posted: September 16, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  Customer Data Integration | Customer Data Management | Data Classification | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Modeling | Data Quality | Data Storage | Master Data Management | Request for Proposals