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A
Shortcut to Data Integration?
Sorry,
no shortcuts for data integration here. IT
Business Edge recently asked me
three questions on helping customers address data
quality issues, which many companies tend to avoid
addressing in the first place.
- You've written that a lot of IT groups seem
to feel data quality problems are so overwhelming
that they just give up. Is there an alternative?
- Could you talk about some of the challenge
of matching business metrics to source metrics?
- Will problems associated with regulatory compliance
help sell the concept of data quality to upper
management?
Read
Data
Integration is a Process at IT
Business Edge.
Which will become pervasive, CPM or BI?
What
do you think about the arguments on whether Corporate
Performance Management (CPM) rather than business
intelligence (BI) will become pervasive in the
future?
It
sounds like apples and oranges to me. CPM is a
business application or process while BI is a
technology.
Read
the rest of my analysis on which will become pervasive,
CPM or BI
Big
Blue Announces Results and Goes Soft
IBM's
recent revenue and earnings results illustrate
the strategic shift underway at the industry giant.
After
much reliance on hardware, it's shifting to software
as its growth engine. IBM announced four major
acquisitions of software companies last quarter
totaling $3.6 billion.
What
do you think about their new direction?
Read
the rest of IBM results & its strategic shift
to software
The
BI Vendor Gobbling Continues
I
started using Oracle twenty five years ago. Twenty
years ago I started developing data warehousing
and business intelligence solutions.
More
often than not, Oracle was the database that was
used for the data warehouse over the years. I
have always championed their top-tiered database
but lamented why Oracle could not build or acquire
a top-tiered data integration or business intelligence
tool.
Oracle
changed that situation October 10 by acquiring
Sunopsis SA.
Read
more on how Oracle significantly upgraded its
data integration offering by acquiring Sunopsis
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I
hope you have enjoyed this issue and will let
me know what you think.
And if you have suggestions for future topics
for this newsletter or the Data
Doghouse blog, don't hesitate to share them.
Rick
Sherman, Athena IT Solutions
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