Master Data Management

WHITE PAPER: Oracle helps organizations achieve their goals with best of breed products that integrate with Oracle and non-Oracle solutions, such as SAP. Download this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

EBOOK: Read this e-book, which is specifically written to address the unique challenges of IT and BI professionals in ERP-centric environments. This set of articles offers best practices and strategic advice for organizations seeking to optimize business intelligence programs.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Effective and efficient management of master data within the manufacturing sector is a key factor in reducing TCO, providing accurate global spend analysis and improved reporting and decision making. Implementing SAP's Master Data Management solution into an organization enables the backbone of a complete data governance model to be established.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Only when data is trusted can it be used in confidence in all insurance operational and analytical process activities. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on insurance companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in insurance and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

ANALYST REPORT: This report, enriched with a study from Gartner research, will help you better understand why real-time information is now a business imperative and about the data integration/CDC software solutions that can help you achieve it faster and more cost-effectively.

Posted: 27 Oct 2009 | Published: 27 Oct 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, listeners will hear a vendor-neutral, executive overview of in-database analytics technology from independent expert Rick Sherman. Find out how the technology works -- and how companies are leveraging it for improved operational efficiency and other business benefits.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 21 Oct 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript featuring best-selling author, Len Silverston, learn how to implement universal patterns for data modeling to improve management flexibility. Gain insight into various modeling choices to meet your organization's needs. Discover how to improve quality and reduce management costs by re-using patterns.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: An Information Agenda is an approach for transforming information into a trusted strategic asset that can be rapidly leveraged across applications, processes and decisions for sustained competitive advantage.

Posted: 06 Oct 2009 | Published: 06 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we will discuss what an Information Strategy is, why it is important, and what it takes to build one. We will also consider IBM's Information Agenda, that company's approach to assisting in the development of an Information Strategy.

Posted: 05 Oct 2009 | Published: 05 Oct 2009

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: 01 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

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: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Smart decision-makers are seeking technology investments -- such as Master Data Management -- to help establish good governance models that will help with regulatory compliance and lower their operational risk.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The initial goal of Customer Data Integration (CDI) was to create the most reliable customer data for the entire company. We now know that the golden opportunity for CDI lies within Master Data Management and the ability to uncover interactions and understand the relationships that companies have with their customers.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Over the past several years, most Master Data Management implementations have used a "reactive" style of data governance. Learn how "reactive" data governance falls short and why leading organizations are using a "proactive" approach -- includes case study and migration questionnaire.

Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Published: 16 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast featuring best-selling author, Len Silverston, learn how to implement universal patterns for data modeling to improve management flexibility. Gain insight into various modeling choices to meet your organization's needs. Discover how to improve quality and reduce management costs by re-using patterns.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 11 Sep 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast featuring best-selling author, Len Silverston, learn how to implement universal patterns for data modeling to meet changing information compliance regulations. Gain insight into various modeling options to meet your organization's needs. Discover how to improve quality and reduce management costs by re-using patterns.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 11 Sep 2009

EBOOK: In this E-Book, hear from analysts and experts about recent trends in customer data and learn how winning organizations are truly taking action on analytics. Learn about the challenges that many organizations face when establishing and maintaining customer data management and retention programs and how to meet those challenges head on.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the state of the market for data integration for 2008 and 2009. It defines data integration, discusses the trends in the data integration market, and provides lessons learned from real implementations.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Database growth, long-term data retention regulations and storage requirements increase operational costs. Yet, archiving complex relational data poses many challenges. Optim Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data practical and desirable.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The basic principles for managing an archiving project presented in this paper can help you initiate and plan an archiving strategy that meets your organization’s requirements.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 04 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The following paper outlines seven ways that data governance programs can help manage costs and presents a mechanism for quantifying the return on investment (ROI) for these contributions.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the role of data governance programs in supporting compliance efforts, and presents an ROI formula you can use in those circumstances where it's important to quantify the value of data governance efforts.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: There's a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools, rather than having data and other information isolated and managed by independent teams using their own set of management tools.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: EIM is the effort and practice of reaching across all data and application silos embedded in the organization's operating infrastructure; then binding those repositories together into one effective information management environment. This white paper will discuss metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data migration...

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Data quality has always been an important issue for companies, and this is even more the case today. This paper reviews current industry problems concerning data quality, and takes a detailed look at how companies are addressing quality problems with customer, product, and other types of corporate data.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009