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Twelve Steps to Revitalize a Data Warehouse

Tales from the front lines: How a BI director revitalized a failing data warehouse

Pitney Bowes Nabs Another Data Quality Player: Firstlogic

Acquisition of Firstlogic takes one of the few remaining independent data quality players off the market

Data Warehousing Appliance Sector Heats Up

Ever since introducing its debut data warehousing appliance in March, DATAllegro has competed aggressively against appliance pioneer Netezza

Evaluating the New ISO 17799 Standard

ISO 17799, the world’s most-used information security framework, gets updated.

Readers Respond

Perfection is indeed a worthy goal….and we try.

Solutions Hiring: IT Compliance Skills in Growing Demand

For years companies have been requiring more business know-how in technical positions. But demand for compliance-specific knowledge is a relatively recent development. What sorts of training should IT professionals consider to stay relevant?



IBM Revamps Flagship Storage Resource Management Suite

Support for z/OS is still gestating, however, and extending TotalStorage Productivity Center to OS/400 will be difficult, too.

Q&A: How Spyware Escapes Definition

What exactly is spyware? Just as with viruses, discussion of malware, grayware, adware, and spyware often gets hung up on definitions, and lately even legal threats over classifications.

2005 Salary Survey, Part 4: IT Attitudes

While salaries are rising, angst is also up.

The Grid/Utility Computing Connection

These days, utility computing is ascendant, and IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and other vendors have positioned grid computing as an important subset of their respective utility computing visions.

Salient's Margin Minder Max: Real-Time P&L Insight

Salient promises real-time visibility into profit and loss from virtually any domain perspective

IBM Announces Linux-powered Data Warehousing Bundles

If IBM’s new Linux-powered bundles look and sound like data warehousing appliances, are they, in fact, data warehousing appliances?

Oracle's Next-Gen ETL Tool--More Details

With a new knowledge encapsulation feature and improved scheduling and security, OWB Paris looks like the real deal

Dos and Don’ts of Globalized Analytics Initiatives (Part 2 of 2)

Five mistakes to avoid when moving any operations offshore