Category Archives: Data Sharing

Sharepoint and Information Management Best Practices

October 31, 2011 By Nadine Hamilton A colleague and I recently attended Sharepoint Saturday in Canberra. A day-long conference of all things MS Sharepoint. The sessions were broad ranging, appealing to business focussed and highly technical alike. Most business intelligence … Continue reading

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Business Intelligence on the iPad

Updated: 28th Jan 2011 Having had the pleasure of using an iPad over the Xmas/New Year break, I thought it would be of interest to review what ‘apps’ are available to enable Business Intelligence on the iPad. Vendor Software Demo … Continue reading

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A Framework to Map and Grow Data Strategy

Adapting Maslow’s Hierarchy to manage multiyear data projects and a tool to monitor, predict and prevent program failure Maria Villar, Theresa Kushner, Information Management Magazine, Nov/Dec 2010 Many companies start an enterprise data management program during one fiscal year only … Continue reading

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Master Data Management at Glasses Direct

Glasses Direct chooses hybris PCM to support multichannel sales hybris, a leading multichannel commerce software vendor, has today announced that it has won the contract to provide Glasses Direct (www.glassesdirect.co.uk), the world’s largest online prescription eyewear store, with the hybris … Continue reading

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Open data hard to understand, says data.gov.uk chief

  Users are not drawing “sensible conclusions” from public sector data sets admits UK open data chief, but visualisation could provide the answer The cabinet official behind the government’s open data initiative has conceded that users are struggling to make … Continue reading

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Microsoft Fills Up Database with New Technology

By Mark A. Smith Microsoft has started its marketing push for the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database platform. Despite having the year 2008 in the name (which indicates how lengthy Microsoft’s release cycles are), this is a major release … Continue reading

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Greenplum’s Chorus Builds Data Marts From Multiple Sources

By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service Database and data warehousing vendor Greenplum plans Monday to unveil Chorus, a bundle of software that allows users to quickly provision new data marts composed of many sources. Many enterprises have sought to build … Continue reading

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Moving Mountains: Sharing data on both sides of the Continental Divide

By @ Jeffery Smith In this third, and final, look at Colorado’s Office of Information Technology, CivSource spoke with State Chief Data Officer Micheline Casey about the challenges and opportunities of integrating a data management strategy within an enterprise framework … Continue reading

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How Colorado Is Attacking Technical and Political IT Silos

By Loraine Lawson Experts repeatedly tell me that one of the biggest barriers to removing data silos isn’t the technology – it’s the politics. While people like information to be shared with them, they seldom like to share what they … Continue reading

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Business Intelligence with MediationZone® at Sky

Sky has selected MediationZone® from DigitalRoute as a primary data integration platform for their corporate Business Intelligence. In 2007, Sky deployed DigitalRoute’s MediationZone as a strategic mediation system across the Sky group. MediationZone was selected for its capability to adapt … Continue reading

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