Data Quality White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores these features, and the challenges that organizations face related to making sense of information in order to revolutionize their ability to mitigate threat and fraud.

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 | Published: 26 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details how in-memory computing changes the way organizations can operate and gain value from their business intelligence (BI). Particularly, discover how this method can bring together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Cloud Computing is an emerging market, and there exist an increasing number of companies that are implementing the cloud model, products and services. Read this white paper to find out more about this exciting new technology.

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 | Published: 20 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise data is largely falling short of a standard that makes it possible to utilize in how business will be conducted in the next decade. Most enterprise data is “adequate” for basic operational needs today. Download this paper to learn how to get the most out of your enterprise data.

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 | Published: 20 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The construction of a data model is one of the more difficult tasks of software engineering and is often pivotal to the success or failure of a project. Many factors determine the effectiveness of a data model. In this white paper, industry expert Michael Blaha covers the Top 10 pitfalls to avoid - from both the strategy and detail perspective.

Posted: 20 Apr 2011 | Published: 20 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights the performance and scalability potential of InfoSphere DataStage 8.1 based on a benchmark test simulating a data warehouse scenario. The benchmark is designed to use the profiled situation to provide insight about how InfoSphere DataStage addresses customers' key FAQs when designing their information integration architecture.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the business issues that drive organizations to consider a real-time change data capture solution to optimize ETL processes. This helps alleviate batch windows to enable the delivery of timely, trusted information to the business.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of the current data quality problem and describes how IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server for IBM System z® can become your foundation for data qualitty and make a big difference in helping you derive more value from the complex, heterogeneous information spread across your systems. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Organizations are starting to see the connection between making information available and leveraging it to be more agile and productive. This paper offers a practical guide to assess your information quality maturity level, and provides a framework to align information quality management practices to business objectives and results.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The IBM® InfoSphere™ Optim™ Data Masking solution provides comprehensive capabilities for masking sensitive data effectively across non-production environments, while still providing realistic data for use in development, testing or training. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: As the CIO of a flourishing business, you are happy to report that the current information projects are going well. The new call center is up and running, the new data warehouse is on-line, and the new customer loyalty systems have been deployed successfully.

Posted: 14 Dec 2010 | Published: 14 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This study of over 150 Fortune 1000 firms from every major industry or vertical explores issues associated with the lifeblood of today’s enterprises: data. The findings demonstrate the often dramatic impacts that even marginal investments in information technology can have when that technology addresses data quality, usability, and intelligence.

Posted: 02 Nov 2010 | Published: 02 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Ray Wang of The Altimeter Group explores the IT and business criteria organizations must consider when planning their next BI deployment.

Posted: 28 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Jun 2010

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: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Enterprises are seeking new ways to keep up with the challenges of managing and protecting their rapidly expanding corporate data. While data growth is not new, the pace of growth has become more rapid, the location of data more dispersed, and the linkage between data sets more complex. This hitepaper explains source based deduplication technology.

Posted: 18 Oct 2010 | Published: 18 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this analysis, Frank Buytendijk examines what information management means, and describes a complete spectrum of business cases, ranging from tactical cost reduction to transformational impact on the organization’s business model.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization is no longer strictly an enterprise technology; it is increasingly being adopted by IT groups in small and mid-size businesses (SMBs). However, those organizations are quickly learning that virtualization can also increase complexity in certain areas of IT, particularly in data protection. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 29 Sep 2010 | Published: 29 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Reference data is the lifeblood of an organization but inconsistencies can lead to inefficient processes and inaccurate analytics. Master reference data makes operational data more accurate, simplifies synchronization and migration projects and improves MDM effectiveness. Learn some key considerations for creating a reference data master.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: Despite criticism of application development methodology over the years, some fundamental problems haven’t been addressed successfully. This paper examines a new direction supported by the IBM InfoSphere Foundation Tools. These tools provide a coordinated approach well-suited to the special needs of contemporary information-centric development.

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 | Published: 13 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Leading banks use business analytics to predict and prevent credit fraud, saving millions. Retailers use business analytics to predict the best location for stores and how to stock them. But these advanced business applications tell only part of the story. What's going on inside these market-leading companies that sets them apart?

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 | Published: 29 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: The Total Data Quality Integration Toolkit is an affordable, full-featured enterprise data integration platform and rich development environment for creating and managing data assets that can be leveraged specifically for MDM applications. TDQ-IT leverages SSIS to provide a flexible, effective solution for data quality and MDM initiatives.

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 | Published: 20 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Melissa Data’s WebSmart Services can handle your data quality needs. Ensure that your contact data, including addresses, names, phone numbers, and emails are valid, and use existing data to append additional information to enhance initiatives. The WebSmart services can be integrated into the business chain to ensure the integrity of your database.

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 | Published: 20 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the key elements for building a proper, quantified business case. It presents the measures that are favored by corporate finance departments, and helps develop a strong business case for data quality and MDM projects. A number of real-life examples with quantifiable benefits are also included.

Posted: 19 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) launched a research program in April 2009 to determine the attitudes and opinions of C-level executives with regard to the use and value of business analytics. This paper reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 07 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: In the following paper, we briefly describe, and illustrate from examples, what we believe are the “Top 10” mistakes of data mining, in terms of frequency and seriousness. Most are basic, though a few are subtle. All have, when undetected, left analysts worse off than if they’d never looked at their data.

Posted: 07 Apr 2010 | Published: 07 Apr 2010