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Data Governance: A Business Value-Driven Approach sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 20 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 20 Nov 2009 | |
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This white paper by Dr. Walid el Abed, CEO of Global Data Excellence, discusses how an effective data strategy embedded within the business strategy can turn data into a real competitive advantage, deliver short and longer term value and enable business success and sustainability.
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60 TB of Savings in 4 Days: EMC ITs Informatica Data Archive Proof of Concept sponsored by EMC Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 20 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 19 Nov 2009 | |
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This paper illustrates the ability to reduce the data growth challenge seen with EMCs Oracle Applications CRM implementation via a Proof of Concept (POC) sponsored by the EMC IT organization.
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No More Tiers: Reduce Storage Costs with an Age-in-Place Strategy sponsored by Nexsan Technologies
 | White Paper: | Posted: 18 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 18 Nov 2009 | |
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As mid-size enterprises find themselves strapped for time, money and management resources, they have to find ways of doing more with less. Age-in-Place is a data management strategy that means no more tiers the easiest and most cost effective way to manage the life-cycle of your data.
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Advance Your Data Management: Reduce Cost and Risk through the effective and efficient Management of Master Data sponsored by Atos Origin
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 04 Nov 2009 | |
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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.
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Commodity Coding: Code It or Buy (Too Much of) It sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 02 Nov 2009 | |
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This paper will present you with all the information needed to make an educated decision on whether to commodity coding is right for your organization and it will help with choosing the commodity coding that fits your company.
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A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Retail Banking sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 02 Nov 2009 | |
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Banks need to get smarter, attract the right customers, implement customer level risk management, and implement risk adjusted customer relationship pricing and all of this is dependent on trusted data. This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on retail banks. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in banking.
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A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Insurance sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
 | White Paper: | Posted: 04 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 02 Nov 2009 | |
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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.
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Driving Operations through Better, Faster Decision Making sponsored by SAP AG
 | White Paper: | Posted: 30 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 30 Oct 2009 | |
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Software can't tell you how to beat the competition, but it can determine which products and services have the greatest profit margin, who are the most productive employees, or how many pairs of socks customers buy when they purchase particular styles of shoes. Having accurate, timely data takes the guesswork out of the decision-making process.
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We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 28 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 15 Dec 2008 | |
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Organizations are being forced to move towards identity-based access lifecycle
management tools in order to support IT agility and flexibility, safely empower
staff, meet compliance requirements, and cope with the rapid evolution of data
centers and core systems.
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Deliver Effective Governance for Identity and Access Management sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 27 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 11 Jun 2009 | |
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Organizations should consider a thorough approach to IAM governance that meets the requirements of discovering, documenting and analyzing user access; establishing a process for user access governance; ensuring that constraints help manage business conflict; enforcing policies; and continuous monitoring.
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Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses sponsored by Syncsort
 | White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 12 Oct 2009 | |
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For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.
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Beyond Survival: Thriving Through the Turbulence: BI in the Retail Industry sponsored by SAP America Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 31 Mar 2009 | |
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Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.
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Solving the Challenges of Exponential Data Growth sponsored by Syncsort
 | White Paper: | Posted: 12 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 12 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isnt a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications.
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Bloor white paper: The Importance of an Information Strategy sponsored by IBM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 05 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 11 Dec 2008 | |
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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.
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Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Backup and Deduplication Storage sponsored by Data Domain
 | White Paper: | Posted: 29 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jul 2008 | |
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Unreliable backups and recovery times that are too long have long plagued IT organisations. This paper takes a look at the costs and benefits of backup with deduplication storage as strategic assets for data protection.
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