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 - Talend is an open source provider of data integration products or, in traditional parlance, ETL (extract, transform and load), although the product also supports an ELT approach.
Posted: February 11, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Data Integration | Data Profiling | Databases | Java | Metadata | Software as a Service | Web Services

WHITE PAPER - Talend is an open source provider of data integration products, it has a business model and organisation that more closely resembles that of a conventional software vendor, while still leveraging the open source model.
Posted: February 11, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Content Management | Data Integration | Data Migration | Metadata | Open Source | SOA | Spreadsheets

WHITE PAPER - Operational data governance is the process of evaluating data to see if data effectively satisfies the organization's business needs. This is measured with a "data quality scorecard", a management tool for monitoring organizational performance.
Posted: June 10, 2008 | Published: June 6, 2008


Topics:  Balanced Scorecards | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Database Performance Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper provides insight into the requirements for protecting privacy in SAP non-production environments and describes some of the comprehensive data masking techniques available with the IBM® Optim™ Data Privacy Solution for SAP® Applications.
Posted: September 4, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2008


Topics:  Compliance (Systems Operations) | Compliance Best Practices | Data Center Management | Data Deduplication | Data Integration | Data Security | Privacy Rights | Risk Management | SAP (Product) | Security Best Practices

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 - LINQ is an acronym which stands for Language Integrated Query. This new technology comes built into the .NET Framework 3.5 and can be used with any of the different languages that run under .NET. This paper serves as an introduction.
Posted: December 10, 2008 | Published: December 10, 2008


Topics:  Memory | Productivity | SQL | Systems Management | Systems Management Services | Systems Management Software | Windows | XML

WHITE PAPER - This paper focuses on what is master data, why it is needed, how to get started in managing it, and methodologies for implementing master data management.
Posted: January 5, 2009 | Published: December 24, 2008


Topics:  Customer Data Management | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Synchronization | Manufacturing | Master Data Management | Sales | Storage Management | Storage Management Services | Storage Systems

WHITE PAPER - The results of the survey clearly show that open source data integration solutions are mature enough for mission-critical enterprise use in every arena.
Posted: February 11, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Data Migration | Databases | IT Managers | Open Source

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

WHITE PAPER - Evidence of the competitive value of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions is growing. This IDC white paper discusses the growing body of evidence suggesting a direct link between investment in business analytics solutions and organizational performance.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Business Performance Management | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Management | Information Management | Information Retrieval Software | Information Storage and Retrieval Systems | Spend Management

WHITE PAPER - This Technical Note discusses Talend's data integration capabilities for SAP and covers Talend's SAP connectors, as well as additional SAP-dedicated tools.
Posted: February 11, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Data Integration | Data Quality | Metadata | Open Source | Productivity

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the challenges faced by organizations today regarding their BI, data integration, and data warehousing environments, why traditional solutions fall short, and the rise of upstart open source companies. Read on to learn more about open source BI, data integration, and data warehousing solutions.
Posted: July 28, 2009 | Published: June 28, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Management Software | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Open Source | Open Source Software | Open Systems Standards

WHITE PAPER - This white-paper provides an overview of Oracle Database 11g's capabilities for data warehousing, and discuses its key features and technologies. Discover how to integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes, and more.
Posted: October 15, 2007 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | ETL (Software) | OLAP | Oracle (Product) | Query Tools | SQL

WHITE PAPER - This paper helps us to understand the importance of desktop search tools fit in the universe of Microsoft search tools.
Posted: February 10, 2009 | Published: February 10, 2009


Topics:  Clustering | Enterprise Search Software | Group Policy | GUI | Indexing (Information Management) | Indexing Software | Load Balancing | Metadata | Search Engines | Windows Server Software