Data Information Management

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g is the biggest business intelligence (BI) announcement of the year to date, packing in a raft of features and providing best-of-breed tool alignment. Some of the main enhancements are focused on plugging previous functional gaps, notably greater report and dashboard interactivity courtesy of: ... read more..

CRM platforms contain only some of the information pertaining to business contacts and customers prospects, and so those tasked with business development spend an inordinate amount of time searching for information that will give them the big picture. Can social search and analytics come to the rescue? We believe it ... read more..

HCLs approach to data center transformation is to use opex savings to fund technology transformation. This is an approach that favors the customers retention of assets and suits HCLs strategy of acquiring resources only when they genuinely add to its service delivery capabilities. Enterprises looking to get rid of ageing ... read more..

With Salesforce and Apple leading the way in setting up and running successful online marketplaces, other IT vendors are scrambling to follow suit to sell complementary solutions and tools. The latest to join the crowd is Informatica, which in 3Q10 will open up a new online channel for developers, partners, ... read more..

NCC Guidelines for IT ManagementNumber 336 Every business now collects and stores volumes of information that were unimaginable even a decade ago. Managed well, this data can be used to unlock new sources of economic value and provide fresh insight for marketing. But how many organisations can truly claim ... read more..

Much of the focus of SAPs planned $5.8 billion swoop for Sybase is on Sybases mobile technology forecast to hit $400 million in revenues this year. However, Sybase also has several analytic technologies under its wing including in-memory, columnar database, and complex event processing (CEP). Sybases lead ... read more..

data centre management Alot has been written on the developments and trends in the data centre, particularly around virtualisation and Cloud Computing, green IT and the potential new market for service providers that will grow out of these new technologies and the need for associated advisory services. With the projected ... read more..

why data management and data governance work so well togetherI want to start with a cautionary tale about the importance of data management. When a fire struck a distribution plant operated by a global manufacturing company several years ago, the CEO immediately wanted to send a letter to key distributors ... read more..

information management Tim Cianchi, Business Unit Leader at Zuhlke, looks at the impact metadata management has on business IT systems and considers how organisations can approach systems and information in a way that both addresses general business efficiency and integration requirements. For as long as organisations have been recording ... read more..

unified data management case studyLocated in an attractive campus about a mile from the centre of the city, The University of Bath is one of the UKs leading universities, with an international reputation and ranked in the top ten of the countrys annual university league tables.The ChallengeAs a result of ... read more..

Jonathan Kirsop and Noel Butcher from Stephenson Harwood explore the impact social networking has on personal privacy and the likely effects. After their rapid rise, Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are now looking for ways to monetize either with one-eye on an eventual IPO ... read more..

John Lovelock, Chief Executive of FAST IiS (the Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software), discusses possible threats to the digital economy. The digital economy has received much publicity over the last year, and especially the last few weeks. The Governments Digital Britain Report has led to the Digital ... read more..

Download the presentations Data Warehousing and BI - Cliff Mills Research Data Warehousing and BI - John Donoghue Expert View The use of data warehousing and business intelligence has been gathering pace but businesses are less than positive in ... read more..

We hear a great deal about the efficiencies of mobile working, as well as the environmental benefits. Sadly, we also hear a great deal about the vulnerabilities of mobile technologies, especially in terms of data protection. Too often and once is already too often as far as the people ... read more..

There is a groundswell of comment, news coverage and debate on information overload with v3.co.uk (formerly vnuunet) recently devoting a three-day summit to the topic. Since Alvin Toffler coined the term in the 1970s, it has come to mean different things to different people. But in the context of ... read more..

Growing numbers of banks and financial institutions are adopting text messaging as part of a raft of measures designed to improve customer communication, enhance service levels and attain competitive advantage. However, the constraints of traditional text technology have limited the range of services that can be delivered to customers. Leveraging ... read more..

Relationships built on trust breed success in the marketplace. Trust emerges when companies understand the benefit of meeting the needs of both the customer and the company. Unfortunately, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools today often ignore the core driver of customer management success. Instead of engaging in relationships, current ... read more..

We like to think we live in a digital age but paper still plays a key role in most organisations. Yet paper documents can easily be lost or misfiled and are vulnerable to disasters like fire or floods not to mention the inefficiency and literal waste of space that ... read more..

why it pays to rationalise your BI infrastructure Your IT budget is razor thin, your staff is maxed out, and management has ordered another round of cuts. Meanwhile, three departments are clamouring for specialised applications to compete effectively against the market leader thats eating your lunch. Somehow youre expected to ... read more..

Not too long ago, the only people who cared about metadata were geeks like me. IT and business users didnt think about how data was organised, where it was located, or how pieces of information were related; they simply wanted reports. And for that, information analysts were the go-to people ... read more..

There is an urgent clash of priorities facing the UK when it comes to IT infrastructure We all understand the importance of ICT in a knowledge-based economy. The need for better, bigger, more sophisticated ICT will only continue to increase as Britain strives to compete as a world leader. ICT ... read more..

Businesses today face more data security threats than ever before.The threat landscape is constantly evolving to the point that as soon as a new security measure is put in place, that measure will likely be breached or become redundant in the face of a new threat. Security aims to stay ... read more..

As technology trends advance and reliance upon IT infrastructures increases, what effect will this have on the creative industry? With information moving towards the digital domain, Jonathan Morgan, co-founder of software developer Object Matrix, looks at the demise of tape-based archiving and the natural succession of the digital workflow.There seems ... read more..

Today's IT environments are a complex landscape, nearly always encompassing multiple technologies and providers. The key to effective IT management is to see beyond individual devices and connections to get a true picture of how each resource affects the applications and business processes it supports.Business Service Management via Remote Infrastructure ... read more..

This document describes the perils, pitfalls, best practices and business benefits of data center migration.Data Centre Migration: ... read more..

Cloud Computing is a term that has quickly become the hottest topic in the technology sector, with seemingly every major provider and thousands of smaller companies offering Cloud Computing services. But what exactly is Cloud Computing? A recent McKinsey report listed twenty-two definitions of Cloud Computing! The umbrella term 'cloud' has been used ... read more..

The potential to leverage IT services and business information has greatly increased over the last decade. The concepts of joined-up IT and web services are powerful tools for business innovation. However, uptake of these technologies is often hindered by existing inflexible systems and high costs. A company's core systems are ... read more..

The term 'Information Assurance' in its broadest sense is the process for enabling the right information to be available securely to the right people at the right time for best business advantage. To achieve this business requirement organisations need to: move away from traditional command and control ... read more..

There has been a recent surge in the number of websites that are created day in and day out. Have you ever wondered how many of these websites exist in the virtual world? Have you ever been in awe of the amount of effort that goes into developing a website? ... read more..

CASE STUDY: ANGLIAN WATER/CLICKSOFTWARE Anglian Water, part of the AWG Group, is located in the east of England and serves the needs of around 6 million industrial, commercial and domestic customers. It is geographically the largest water company in England and Wales - stretching across some 27,500 square kilometres from the ... read more..