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ALSO CALLED: Meta Data
DEFINITION: Data that describes information about either online or offline data. Information that characterizes the who, what, where, and how related to data collection. Often, the information refers to special tagged fields in a document that provide information about the document to search engines and other computer  … 
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Breaking the Data Integration Bottleneck: Accelerating DW, BI, MDM, CDI, and CPM Operations
sponsored by Innovative Routines International, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: The best approach to successful, large-scale data integration is to leverage file utilities for those processes that require processing of large, structured data sets.

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Third-Party Sort Replacement and Conversion Tool Examples
sponsored by Innovative Routines International, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 16 May 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
SUMMARY: The conversion tools provided by CoSort enable you to begin using its flexible and powerful Sort Control Language (SortCL) program, without rewriting your existing legacy sort scripts, or creating new ones.

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Message and Document Classification - Advantages for US DoD
sponsored by Titus Labs
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 May 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: Titus Labs has developed a complete family of classification solutions for Microsoft Outlook email and Microsoft Office documents, these message and document classification tools offer many advantages which are outlined in this paper.

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SOA Governance and CentraSite: Ensuring SOA Success with Effective, Automated Control throughout the Lifecycle
sponsored by Software AG
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 09 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: In this whitepaper, you will learn how effective SOA governance enables SOA success, and how to evaluate technologies that support your SOA governance strategy.

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Benefits of Automating Data Warehousing
sponsored by UC4 Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 02 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
SUMMARY: Data warehousing can be defined as a copy of data specifically structured for querying and reporting.

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Application Factories a JBUILDER Whitepaper
sponsored by CodeGear
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 Apr 2008 | Published: 08 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: This white paper discusses how to transform your IDE and allow it to enhance application customization by enabling the effective capture of both application evolution and developers' knowledge.

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The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, E-mail Discovery and You - An Osterman Research Position Paper
sponsored by Lucid8, the creators of GOexchange
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 07 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2007
SUMMARY: This white paper discusses the key issues involved in proper data retention and retrieval, and discusses Lucid8's DigiScope offering that can satisfy these requirements easily and inexpensively.

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Assessing the Potential Business Impact of Operational Data Quality IT Briefing
sponsored by Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 07 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Apr 2008
SUMMARY: Explore data quality impacts, how data quality relates to business issues, and how to integrate data quality monitoring into operational systems.

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People Auditing: Why Are We Ignoring the #1 Cause of Downtime and Security Breaches?
sponsored by Observe IT
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: This paper argues that by adding user activity auditing as a core property of system monitoring platforms, IT departments can easily achieve higher availability, through faster problem identification and time to resolution.

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Best Practices for Creating Effective Landing Pages
sponsored by Marketo
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 20 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: Explore ten best practices for creating a landing page that will increase conversion rate and deliver maximum ROI. Learn how you can catch prospects early through search engine marketing and landing pages.

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METADATA DEFINITION (continued): … Data that describes information about either online or offline data. Information that characterizes the who, what, where, and how related to data collection. Often, the information refers to special tagged fields in a document that provide information about the document to search engines and other computer applications.Visit WhatIs.com - a knowledge exploration and self-education tool about information technology.


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