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Data Management News

BI This Week

Pervasive BI: Still a Vision, Not Reality
BI tools guru Cindi Howson's annual assessment of the BI finds that ratings of success, enterprisewide use dip but business impact still strong.
How Camera Settings Help Us Understand Data Models
Cameras have settings, including zoom, focus, timer, filter; so do data models
Q&A: Private Clouds Can Speed Data Access
A private cloud solution allows customers to access giant data centers themselves almost immediately after the data has been collected, thus addressing a long-standing need in the retail sector.
Come Together: BI and ECM Bleed into Each Other
Tendrils of both BI and ECM are bleeding over and into one another. Although no one’s talking convergence, most concede a kind of limited commingling.
BI 2010: Evolving to Meet Demands of the Changing Business Landscape
We look at four emerging trends that will become prevalent as the year unfolds.

Information Management - Latest News

Social Networking: From Fad to Factor

Insurance carriers look to business-specific social networking tools to improve their interactions with producers
IBM Unveils Systems For Real-Time Financial Analysis

IBM announced a new round of processors and servers designed to handle specialized applications
Oracle Acquires AmberPoint in the Shadow of Sun

Database, application and middleware giant to increase service-oriented architecture management capabilities with new acquisition
High Performance Databases: A Tool for Quant Traders

As firms add new trading areas and struggle to meet regulatory requirements, high performance databases are becoming increasingly vital
Lightower Expanding Services To Equinix NY4 Data

Lightower Fiber Networks, a metro fiber network, bandwidth, and colocation service provider, is expanding its network services into the Equinix NY4 International Business Exchange data center in Secaucus, N.J.

SearchDataManagement: Tips, expert advice and sample chapters

Understanding and comparing six types of processing systems
Learn about six types of processing systems and how transaction processing systems compare with batch processing, real-time, data warehouse, timesharing and client/ server systems.
Transaction processing system examples and SOA approaches
Learn about transaction processing systems, processing systems components and different service-oriented architecture approaches, including representational state transfer.
Making business transaction processing and applications work
Learn about making business transaction processing work in your company. Find tips on transaction processing applications and get transaction processing definitions.
Key benchmarks for measuring transaction processing performance
Find key benchmarks for measuring transaction processing performance at your company, plus learn about XA two-phase commit and types of transaction processing.
Service autonomy: How it works with SOA and the data service layer
How does the data service layer affect service autonomy? Get an SOA and integration expert's take, plus learn how service autonomy works in developing a data services environment.

SearchDataManagement: News on data management trends and technology

Oracle's data warehouse strategy unclear after Sun acquisition
With its acquisition of Sun Microsystems complete, Oracle faces a slew of questions regarding its data warehouse strategy.
Mega-vendors dominate Gartner's 2010 BI, data warehouse Magic Quadrants
IT heavyweights like Oracle, IBM and Microsoft continue to control large segments of the business intelligence (BI) software and data warehouse markets, according to Gartner's Magic Quadrant reports.
Oracle-Sun competitors believe they can ?stack? up
Oracle?s integrated stack strategy failed to impress Oracle-Sun competitors IBM and SAP. Both believe it is an approach users will not go for.
IBM to acquire MDM vendor Initiate Systems
IBM said today it plans to acquire Initiate Systems, one of the few remaining independent master data management vendors.
XBRL financial reporting a hard sell; new GRC XBRL taxonomy on the way
Early adopters of XBRL say the benefits for electronic financial reporting are many, but companies remain leery of investing resources until they see practical benefits.

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Reciprocity

DAMA-MN has reciprocity with other chapters and we invite them to visit. As a DAMA Minnesota member you can attend other chapters' meetings. Check out what they have planned:

Wisconsin - Madison
http://www.widama.us

Iowa - Des Moines
http://www.dama.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3285

Illinois - Chicago
http://www.damachicago.org/