Business Intelligence Network - The Vision for BI and Beyond

WHITE PAPER - This white paper proposes a specific architecture for building and integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW) that directly supports master data management efforts and provides the platform for consistent business analysis across the enterprise.
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Warehouses | Enterprise | ERP | Master Data Management | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses, Business Change Management, Data Change Management, and Cultural Change Management. These are the three main categories of change management that accompany any Master Data Management (MDM) effort.
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: September 26, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Change Management | Customer Data Management | Data Integration | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Knowledge Management | Master Data Management | Policy-Based Network Management

WHITE PAPER - The goal of this paper is to paint the EIM landscape, noting its components but focusing on the importance of an overarching EIM strategy that focuses on corporate objectives while at the same time offering cross-functional support.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: September 5, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Governance | Data Quality | Information Management | Master Data Management | Metadata | SOA

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines the evolution of the data integration and quality industry, and explains the benefits of moving toward a single data services architecture.
Posted: September 19, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Integration | Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | IT Spending | Master Data Management | Project Management | Risk Management | SOA | Software Development Tools | Software Implementation

WHITE PAPER - Research and in-depth discussions with CIOs, conducted by IDG Research Services, have pinpointed a set of best practices for architecting and implementing a comprehensive information management strategy.
Posted: September 17, 2008 | Published: September 17, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Intelligence | Data Warehouses | Information Management | Master Data Management | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - This document first establishes what master data and Master Data Management (MDM) mean and then discusses the nontechnical organizational and operational challenges associated with introducing an MDM program.
Posted: September 16, 2008 | Published: September 16, 2008


Topics:  Change Management | Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Quality | Master Data Management | Program Management | Sales | Vendors

WHITE PAPER - Achieving the Perfect Plant goes far beyond simply integrating traditional MES systems to ERP. Read this white paper and discover the methods to achieving that goal.
Posted: September 10, 2008 | Published: September 10, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing Industry | Master Data Management

WHITE PAPER - Data integration guarantees the consistency of data in the overall information system. This white paper describes how Open Source helps solving the interoperability challenge.
Posted: July 24, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Application Deployment | Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | CRM Analytics | Data Integration | Data Migration | Data Modeling | Data Quality | Data Warehouses | Database Management | ERP | ETL (Software) | Master Data Management | Open Source

WHITE PAPER - TDWI explores traditional approaches to data quality, which focus on well structured data, and shows why these do not work with less structured product data. Read about Product Data's unique requirements and how to address them.
Posted: July 23, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2008


Topics:  Data Management Software | Data Quality | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouse Software | Data Warehouses | Manufacturing | Master Data Management | Product Management | Supply Chain Management | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - In this paper we will focus on the last of the three key foundational elements - the set of data governance services that execute on the data management platform to explore, analyse, improve and monitor data.
Posted: July 15, 2008 | Published: December 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Governance | Data Integration | Data Quality | Master Data Management | Product Management

WHITE PAPER - Master data management solutions helps organizations maximize the value of postmerger integrations, manage the product lifecycle, meet regulatory requirements and improve the effectiveness of transactional and reporting systems.
Posted: June 26, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Quality | IT Management Services | Master Data Management | SAP (Product) | Standards

WHITE PAPER - Too often, data governance teams rely on existing measurements as the metrics used to populate a data quality scorecard. But without a defined understanding of the relationship between specific measurement scores and the business's success criteria..
Posted: June 26, 2008 | Published: June 4, 2008


Topics:  Data Classification | Data Quality | Data Visualization | Marketing | Master Data Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes how identity Resolution complements and extends the application of data Quality and data integration processes into business applications.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: May 30, 2008


Topics:  CRM | Customer Service | Data Integration | Data Quality | Fraud Protection | Identity Management | Master Data Management | Security

WHITE PAPER - Effective master data management can save time and money - even enable the capture of incremental revenues, it can also reduce costs while improving customer service.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Asset Management Services | Master Data Management

WHITE PAPER - SAP master data management is a component of SAP's NetWeaver application platform, which provides a complete environment for designing, building, integrating and deploying business processes.
Posted: June 18, 2008 | Published: March 1, 2007


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Integration | Master Data Management