Data quality management and governance

Informatica looks up, despite down year in 2012

TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson reflects on Informatica after briefings with company execs. His take: It's poised to join the ranks of elite vendors. Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

The Human Face of Big Data: Data Driven

Software engineers are transforming the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people for good and for ill, writes Jonathan Harris. Continue Reading

The Human Face of Big Data: Pulse of the Planet

Big Data is about to radically transform our understanding of the planet, writes entrepreneur and commentator, Esther Dyson. Continue Reading

Conquering the sys-admin challenge

This report from Quocirca presents new data on how well organisations are able to automate their sys-admin procedures, manage the use of privilege and satisfy the requirements of auditors. Continue Reading

Data quality essential to master data management

It is possible to have a data quality initiative without master data management, but every MDM project must have a data quality element Continue Reading

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• Andy Hayler, Information Difference

German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales

German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Scenes from EMC Momentum Vienna 2012

EMC Momentum took place in Vienna this year, at the Messe Wien Congress Centre. 1,100 EMC attendees descended on the conference for hands-on-labs and a selection of sessions. View photos from the event here. Continue Reading

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• Kayleigh Bateman, Computer Weekly

Unilever enterprise data warehouse locked to business programmes

Unilever is building a global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) locked into the critical paths of high-profile business programmes. Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

West Midlands Police develops golden view of criminals, suspects

West Midlands Police, the second largest force in the UK, seeks to reduce risk to its officers and the public by using DataFlux software that gives a master record for criminals and suspects. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Big data advice from big names, Coca-Cola and Lastminute.com

Coca-Cola's chief privacy officer and Lastminute.com's innovation head offer advice on data privacy at Big Data Europe Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna

Practical Data Migration: PDMv2

Data Migration expert Johny Morris, explains how organisations can use the PDMv2 methodology to overcome common data migration problems. Continue Reading

From the Editor: Big data arrives, but plagued by governance challenges and skills shortage

Big data offers big opportunities, but governance challenges and skills shortages could pose big problems. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

European river managers delve into new knowledge management system

The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Larry English calls for an information quality revolution

Larry English, in an interview, calls for an information quality revolution that will put the customer first. New rules are necessary for the “information age 3.0”. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

BBC evolves digital asset management with Life

The BBC’s Life series marked an ongoing shift from film to digital media that is making the need for rigorous metadata and digital asset management in broadcast media more pressing. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Data quality improvement impeded by lack of automation

Data quality improvement has boosted revenue at 12% of a sample of UK companies. Progress impeded by poor automation, says research from QAS: 42% use Excel spreadsheets to detect data quality issues. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Round table: the value of big data

Learn what our round table of experts thinks of the value and significance of “big data.” Continue Reading

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• SearchDataManagement.co.UK Round table

How to manage semi-structured data

Semi-structured data is here to stay, and it offers the potential for business advantage to companies that handle and analyse it well. Mark Whitehorn has advice on how to do that. Continue Reading

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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

IT in Europe e-zine: Data Management & BI Edition

The benefits of effective data management and business intelligence are many; so are the challenges. Get practical information and advice on data management & BI strategies in the IT in Europe ezine. Continue Reading

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• SearchDataManagement.co.UK staff

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. Continue Reading

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• Jessica Twentyman

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. Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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. Continue Reading

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• Mark Whitehorn, University of Dundee

Ensure data quality management during integration

Data quality management is the first and crucial step to data integration. Here are some tips to help maintain the data quality in your organization. Continue Reading

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• Bijoy Abraham, Contributor

Should I use data deduplication to manage unstructured data?

Absolutely; there are two areas where data deduplication, or single-instance storage, can help... Continue Reading