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Feb 9, 2012

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ALSO CALLED: Data Quality Control, Information Quality, Data Quality Assurance, Data Content Quality DEFINITION: Data quality is the reliability and effectiveness of data, particularly in a data warehouse. Data quality assurance (DQA) is the process of verifying the reliability and effectiveness of data. Maintaining data quality requires going through the data periodically and scrubbing it. Typically this involves updating it, standardizing it, and de-duplicating records to create a single view of the data, … Definition continues below.
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Data quality best practices with real-time integration sponsored by IBM EGUIDE: This brief e-guide explores the notion that data quality issues are worse in real-time data integration applications versus batch-oriented techniques. In the form of two articles, this resource serves up options for real-time integration, touches on the concerns associated with it and outlines the proper steps required to address data quality. Posted: 08 Feb 2012 \| Published: 08 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Real Time Enterprise

Three Keys to Better Data-driven Decisions: What You Should Know… Right Now sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: It's time for small to midsized businesses (SMBs) still using outdated business processes and systems to bring their decision-making up to speed with a centralized view of enterprise information. Read this white paper to learn how the right tools can give SMBs the accurate, timely data they need to make informed, strategic business decisions. Posted: 06 Feb 2012 \| Published: 06 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Enterprise Resource Management \| Enterprise Systems \| ERP \| ERP Software \| Reporting Software \| SAP (Product)

Accelerating the Speed of Intelligence for Fast and Flexible Forecasting sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Based on interviews with CFOs and senior finance executives at six leading international companies, this report presents the strategies they are using to infuse flexibility into their planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in order to detect and address the constantly changing market realities of today's stubbornly volatile global economy. Posted: 02 Feb 2012 \| Published: 02 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Dashboards \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Visualization \| Financial Management \| Financial Metrics \| Financial Reporting \| Forecast/Demand Management Software \| Forecasting, planning and budgeting software

Business Intelligence: The Definitive Guide for Midsize Organizations sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This white paper breaks down the spectrum of business intelligence (BI) tools into specific functionalities and explains how they can be practically applied by midsized organizations to improve decision-making. Read it to learn what you need to know to get started with a BI implementation. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Analytic Applications Software \| Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Quality \| Query Tools \| Reporting Software \| SMBs \| Software Implementation

The Five Pillars of SharePoint Governance sponsored by Quest Software WHITE PAPER: In this new Quest white paper, learn the five pillars of SharePoint governance, and how preparing for an ever-changing SharePoint environment ensures success. Posted: 30 Jan 2012 \| Published: 30 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Collaboration \| Content Management \| Content Management Systems \| Data Quality \| Enterprise Content Management \| Enterprise Content Management Software \| SharePoint

BI Trends and Strategies E-Zine Issue 1 sponsored by SearchBusinessAnalytics EZINE: The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. Posted: 27 Jan 2012 \| Published: 27 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses

Speeding up BI and analytics: Real-time analytics business cases and challenges sponsored by Starview Inc. EBOOK: This e-book offers IT, business intelligence (BI) and analytics managers tips on building a business case for real-time analytics and also for avoiding potential pitfalls that can trip you up during the implementation stage. Posted: 26 Jan 2012 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Real-time Analytical Software \| Real-time Analytics

Data Warehousing 2.0- Modeling and Metadata Strategies for Next Generation Architectures sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper and learn how the data warehouse, metadata and modeling environment will be transformed in the next few years — and what you need to do to leverage it for your business, the major components of DW 2.0 architectures, and key modeling and metadata management strategies for DW 2.0. Posted: 26 Jan 2012 \| Published: 26 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Modeling \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouse Architectures \| Data Warehouses

Enterprise Reporting Sound Step to Performance Managements sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Using enterprise reporting, an organization can progressively address immediate reporting needs, use business intelligence (BI) capabilities to acquire greater insight, extend BI to more users and prepare a platform for the future that includes the implementation of performance management. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Mining \| Data Quality \| Information Management

The Challenge of Mobile Business Intelligence: Developing a Successful Strategy for the New Mobility sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper now and learn more about the opportunities and challenges that a mobile workforce present to IT and understand the next steps you need to take to develop a successful strategy. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Information Management \| Mobile CRM \| Mobile Device Management

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence supports sales controlling and business management with decision-making insight sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Learn what happened when KDG Mediatech AG needed a centralized reporting solution to provide users in sales, controlling and business management with up-to-date and consistent decision making insights. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| Information Management

Business Analytics – Pushing Toward Relevance sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Learn how IT can improve its overall contribution to business innovation with an action-oriented business intelligence (BI) and analytics strategy. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Information Management \| IT Best Practices \| IT Governance \| IT Management

BI and ETL Process Management Pain Points sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: IT organizations are under increasing pressure to make sure that the data underlying business intelligence (BI) reports is both current and accurate. Learn how new, sophisticated scheduling and process automation technologies can help your organization ensure high data quality, without wasting valuable time finding and fixing issues manually. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Collection \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouse Software \| Data Warehouses \| ETL (Software)

UCHC Leverages Enterprise Job Scheduling to Automate Data Integration Processes sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. CASE STUDY: Thinking of launching a data warehousing project? Learn how the University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC), a leading biomedical research center, healthcare facility, and medical school, achieved end-to end automation of data integration and data loading processes from internal and external data sources to ensure consistent, accurate reporting. Posted: 24 Jan 2012 \| Published: 24 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Data Centers \| Data Collection \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouse Software \| Data Warehouses \| Health Care Industry

An Alternate Perspective on how Accurate ETL and Data Integration Improves Business Intelligence (BI) sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Read this brief white paper and learn how many business intelligence (BI) teams, such those at Electronic Arts (EA), are shifting their perspective on extract, transform and load (ETL) job scheduling to an enterprise-oriented view, elevating efficiency and offering greater control and data accuracy. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Management \| Data Integration \| Data Quality \| ETL (Software)

Station Casinos uses workload automation solution to deliver smoother audits and increase customer loyalty sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Customer Data Integration \| Customer Data Management \| Data Quality \| Job Scheduling Software

Leading Interactive Games Designer Accelerates Business Intelligence Program sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so. Posted: 20 Jan 2012 \| Published: 20 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business Process Automation \| Business Process Automation Software \| Business Service Management \| Business Service Management Software \| Data Quality \| Job Scheduling Software

Webank fights off competition with help from HP Business Intelligence implementation sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited CASE STUDY: This case study details how Webank utilized HP's Global Method for Business Intelligence Implementation to replace its old data warehousing system with a more advanced platform and saw huge business benefits. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Databases

HP Advanced Information Services For the Vertica Analytics Platform sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited WHITE PAPER: This brief paper highlights how Vertica Analytics Platform has the ability to process massive amounts of data at record speeds and process information for quick access to business intelligence (BI). Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Database Management \| Databases \| SQL

Eurizon Capital increases value of business information thanks to Business Intelligence solution sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Limited CASE STUDY: Read on to learn more about the benefits of HP's business intelligence and data planning system and how it can reduce total cost of ownership by 30%. Posted: 05 Jan 2012 \| Published: 05 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Data Analytics \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Warehouses \| Database Management \| Databases \| Master Data Management

E-Guide: Predictive analytics and ‘big data’: opportunities and challenges sponsored by Sybase, Inc. EGUIDE: This e-book, intended for IT, business intelligence (BI) and analytics professionals as well as business executives involved in BI and analytics programs, offers expert advice on managing a predictive analytics program involving big data and the hurdles and pitfalls that can trip companies up. Posted: 19 Dec 2011 \| Published: 19 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Quality \| Predictive Analytics \| Predictive Analytics Software \| Structured Data \| Unstructured Data

Tip Guide: Predictive analytics project challenge: Keeping the faith in findings sponsored by Sybase, Inc. EGUIDE: According to analysts, the greatest impediment to a successful predictive analytics project is creating a culture that values data-driven decision making and encourages people to have faith in the findings. In this e-guide, readers will learn more about overcoming these challenges and getting people to keep the faith in predictive analytics. Posted: 14 Dec 2011 \| Published: 14 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Integration \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Predictive Analytics \| Predictive Analytics Software

Tip Guide: Developing a predictive analytics program doable on a limited budget sponsored by Sybase, Inc. EGUIDE: In this e-guide, readers will learn some of the best-practice tips for succeeding on predictive analytics without breaking the bank. Posted: 13 Dec 2011 \| Published: 13 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Process Management \| Data Analytics \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Predictive Analytics \| Predictive Analytics Software

Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine- 3D Demo sponsored by Oracle Corporation VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT: Watch this virtual demo on Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine and learn about a revolutionary machine that delivers the fastest performance for business analytics and planning applications. Don’t miss this to get an up close and personal look at this remarkable solution that is changing the way BI is derived and delivered. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Premiered: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Data Analytics \| Data Integration \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses

Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression (Whiteboard) sponsored by Oracle Corporation VIDEOCAST: This whiteboard presentation explains the latest in data storage from Oracle. Posted: 12 Dec 2011 \| Premiered: 12 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Analytics \| Data Governance \| Data Management \| Data Quality \| Data Storage \| Data Warehouses \| Query Tools

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DATA QUALITY DEFINITION (continued): … even even if it is stored in multiple disparate systems. There are many vendor applications on the market to make this job easier. Because data quality is so important from a business perspective, many large companies employ a data steward to be in charge of data quality. In spite of this, Gartner Inc. forecasted that 25% of critical data within Fortune 1000 companies would continue to be inaccurate through 2007. A Gartner study says that poor quality customer data costs U.S. business an estimated $611 billion dollars a year in postage, printing, and staff overhead.Getting started with data quality …
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