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Analysts say a growing number of organizations are adopting data warehouse appliances, primarily to supplement existing platforms. But users like Catalina Marketing have gone all in on appliances.
Regulatory pressures and the need to improve data quality are forcing financial institutions to rethink their reference data management strategies.
A local AAA auto club serving three western states is using cloud-based data integration tools to help drive an aggressive cloud computing strategy.
SaaS BI and its benefits explained: it can improve scalability and reduce administration costs; it offers capabilities in data warehousing, ETL and analytics; it can be secured. What’s not to like?
IT leaders need to get information governance right if MDM is to help cut costs, stoke productivity and mitigate risk, according to Gartner on the eve of the MDM summit.
Gartner’s BI London summit will show a landscape beset by strategic misalignment, intra-organisational struggle and weak cloud adoption. Yet mobile BI is becoming a reality.
Hasbro is reinventing its rich media and enterprise digital asset management strategy to make sure its toys and games are correctly used by its marketers, distributors and retailers around the world.
Web content management is not just about publishing Web pages any more, according to one industry expert. It has become a way to use content to power useful business applications for the enterprise.
Digital archiving and the longevity of electronic information is being overlooked by enterprise content management professionals at the enterprise’s peril. Digital doesn’t necessarily mean permanent.
With social CRM gaining popularity, companies need to identify their audiences are and what social media sites and technology they use, analysts say.
The Boston Red Sox spent seven years searching for a CRM system to handle ticketing and fan engagement before selecting a custom version of Microsoft CRM.
In this expert response, find some ways contact centers are using social media channels to manage customer contact volume.
Oracle recently announced some new mobile apps for J.D. Edwards. Expert Al Marmero talks about their benefits and potential drawbacks.
Oracle has spent $3.4 billion on Taleo and RightNow in the past few months, showing that it is serious about hosting applications in the cloud for its customers.
One reader asks how to set up a report in Oracle SQL so that Monday is the first day of the week.
SAP is rolling out high-speed analytics applications for small and midsize businesses.
Learn about the hardware and software aspects of in-memory and SAP HANA -- and what you should know when evaluating it for your company.
When Ace Hardware went looking for a way to integrate its financials and order processing systems, it decided going with Oracle was too risky.
Microsoft database platform specialist Mark Kromer talks in this Q&A about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 “big data” capabilities, as well as what SQL Server has in store for open source and cloud computing this year.
With SQL Server 2012 coming out and the growing influence of the SQL Azure cloud and “big data,” the SQL Server landscape could see some major changes in the coming months.
Learn how to use SQL Azure Data Sync to keep SQL Server and SQL Azure databases across dispersed geographic locations using a simple point-and-click interface.