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Master data management (MDM) and integration

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ordnance Survey to release open data on green spaces

  The Ordnance Survey is to release information and statistics on green space in England and Wales as open data

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Morgan Motor Company swaps Sage for integrated IFS

  Morgan Motor Company is replacing its Sage 500 accounting system with IFS Applications

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Large Indian B2C firms lead analytics push

  Consumer-facing businesses in banking, telecoms and retail are leading adoption of analytics internally to support the business

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  City University London launches data science and cyber security courses

  City University London will this year begin its first post-graduate courses in data science and cybersecurity.

• March 26, 2014 26 Mar'14

  CRM critical to digital transformation in India

  Indian businesses integrate customer relationship management (CRM) investments with digital initiatives as customer interaction expands rapidly

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Thames Water pilots smart analytics with Accenture

  Thames Water is six months into an 18 month pilot with Accenture Smart Grid to pilot real time monitoring to deliver an improved service

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• November 22, 2013 22 Nov'13

  Jaguar Land Rover builds data sharing infrastructure

  Jaguar Landrover (JLR) has used a proposed data sharing standard to improve car development within its product lifecycle management (PLM) system.

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle customers continue to invest in big data

  Airbus, Thomson Reuters and the New York Stock Exchange have all implemented Oracle's big data products to improve their businesses

• September 16, 2013 16 Sep'13

  British Army’s manpower planning saves £770m through SAS BI

  The British Army's headquarters is using SAS to analyse and more efficiently allocate manpower and resources

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan

  Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  NHS numbers to be mandated by 2014

  NHS providers must use an NHS number to identify all patient data, Tim Kelsey, director for patients and information at NHS England announces

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

  Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Don’t make big data stand alone, warns Gartner

  Gartner cautions organisations against treating big data as unique and criticises business intelligence suppliers for failing to exploit mobility

• March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12

  Zornes: Master data governance will fuse MDM to BPM

  Master data governance tools are emerging to aid the orchestration of MDM and BPM, according to MDM expert Aaron Zornes. “Big data” is a distraction from the business basics of MDM, he says.

• March 13, 2012 13 Mar'12

  Enterprise software procurement done right can save companies millions

  Software procurement is frequently poorly conducted, argues consultant Andy Hayler. Intelligent software evaluation processes and savvy contract management can pay huge dividends, he says.

• February 23, 2012 23 Feb'12

  Predictive analytics used to cut costs in oil sector

  Predictive analytics is being used in the oil and gas industry to better manage asset maintenance on capital equipment. And a more enterprisewide adoption of the technology is predicted.

• January 23, 2012 23 Jan'12

  Deloitte spots analytics trends, ethics and open data

  Deloitte identifies four analytics trends: an increased focus on ethics, the rise of open data, new business models and a refusal to do analytics for its own sake.

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets

  ‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Shell enterprise MDM foundation proof of concept disturbs rulebook

  Shell has laid a foundation for enterprise master data management, choosing SAP MDM over Microsoft. The major lesson was that IT can build an enterprise MDM system to which the business will come.

• November 23, 2011 23 Nov'11

  Record management standards improved

  New standards by ISO assist with records management and can help you frame a storage strategy

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Sybase: Data warehousing too slow for ‘big data’ analytics

  Sybase EMEA business development director speaks about ‘big data’ analytics’ need for speed and pronounces traditional data warehousing “antiquated.”

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Royal Mail delivers enterprise master data management

  The Royal Mail has delivered a master data management programme stemming from a new electronic data warehouse and BI initiative. Project team leaders claim a people-plus-technology synthesis.

• November 07, 2011 07 Nov'11

  Shell HR gains from structured information quality programme

  Oil giant Shell’s human resources function has been on an information quality journey since 2002, integrating historically decentralized businesses into one assured talent pool.

• July 25, 2011 25 Jul'11

  How to improve storage resources utilisation

  Storage hardware vendors’ upgrade offers are leading many mainframe users to buy storage they don’t need, which sends operational expenses through the roof because storage resources’ utilisation rates are low, says an expert.

• June 08, 2011 08 Jun'11

  Data governance framework seen as bedrock of airline MDM strategy

  Data governance emerges as a prerequisite for a sustainable, long-term master data management strategy.

• May 27, 2011 27 May'11

  From the Editors: Master Data Management journeys never-ending, but still worth it

  Master data management is like the quest for the Holy Grail -- elusive, yet well worth the journey. See how MDM has demonstrated value within the private and public sectors.

• May 16, 2011 16 May'11

  What to look out for when migrating to cloud databases

  Companies going for a mix-and-match approach to migrating databases to the cloud are meeting interoperability problems. Early evaluation is necessary for integration.

• May 06, 2011 06 May'11

  Lloyds bank on master data management for business integration in M&A

  Mergers and acquisitions have complicated Lloyds Banking Group's efforts to gain a single customer view through master data management.

• April 21, 2011 21 Apr'11

  Volkswagen creates common data services in pursuit of car industry pole position

  Volkswagen’s common data services approach is crucial to the IT-enabled transformation of its five businesses.

• March 21, 2011 21 Mar'11

  When data goes bad: how data quality analysis can fix problems

  How can data quality be improved for business benefit? Data quality is complex, and thrown into relief by the pressing requirement for analysis. Learn how to clean it up through data quality analysis.

• January 25, 2011 25 Jan'11

  Data management a focus for UK CIOs and the retail sector in 2011

  This could be an important year for data management, and business intelligence in particular in the UK, according to a recent survey. CIOs and retail in particular are optimistic about their IT projects.

• April 19, 2010 19 Apr'10

  Tier Wars: Hardware, storage management software and document management software stake a claim for

  Storage tiering is a hot meme, and rightly so because it can lower costs and is an important way to use the speed of solid state disks to your advantage. But with three tiering choices in the market – hardware, storage software and document ...

• June 05, 2008 05 Jun'08

  Gartner's Top 10 disruptive technologies for 2008 to 2012

  What are the new technologies that will change the way IT departments operate? Adam Turner reveals Gartner's top ten future disruptors.

• January 02, 2007 02 Jan'07

  Storage Outlook '07: In search of better data management

  Brian Peterson, storage architect for a Midwest-based Fortune 100 company, says better data management and business processes will be the main goal in 2007.