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Mellon Banks on Mining

Mellon Bank looks to enhance its complex customer service relationships through IBM’s Intelligent Miner for Data.

New Imperative for Business Intelligence

While many large companies began installing enterprise resource planning systems several years ago, the push for Y2K systems remediation, combined with the cost-effectiveness of shared information over the Internet has prompted smaller companies to begin building their own. This growing interest has vendors rushing to find their niche.

The Enemies Within: Building a Multi-Layered System Security

Today’s trend toward enterprisewide information sharing has network administrators scrambling to “build a better mousetrap.” This solution presents blueprints for building a seven-layer security system within your own network neighborhood.

Be Prepared: How to Deal with the Suprises That Are Going to Happen to Your Data Warehouse Project

Suprise! You thought that your little warehousing project was going to move along without a hitch. Well, guess again.

Data Profiling: The First Step in Creating a Data Warehouse

No matter what form of data conversion project your organization is involved in, the methods can be time-consuming and a little risky. But one thing is for certain: The critical first step in data migration is data profiling.

Business Metadata: The End Users’ Roadmap Through the Data Warehouse

As an organization’s data warehouse grows and changes, managing the volumes of data stored in the warehouse becomes increasingly complex, paving the way for metadata and metadata management

Cross-Platform Information Sharing

Heralded as the “Holy Grail of IT,” cross-platform information sharing actually has more to do with the security, integration and transaction of the data and less to do with simply providing users with common access.



Enterprise Storage Battle Shifts to Storage Managment, SANs

In the battle for the hearts and IT budgets of enterprise users, storage vendors are moving beyond the issue of sheer capacity to the more compelling value propositions of storage management and storage area networks.