Data Management Trends and Technology

Enterprise content management technologies help companies meet compliance requirements and improve business processes, bringing order to unwieldy, unstructured content.

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Location-based intelligence, which lets users analyze demographic and other map-based data, is catching on with business intelligence vendors thanks to customer demand.

Business intelligence (BI) search, which helps users find the reports they're looking for, should be a no-brainer for most organizations.

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Gartner says the worldwide business intelligence software market grew substantially in 2007 despite a slowdown in the U.S. Meanwhile, the so-called mega-vendors improved their market share dramatically through acquisitions.

The number of viable integration service providers is rising, giving companies more choices and lower prices for help with business-to-business (B2B) integration projects, according to a Gartner report.

Calculating the return on investment (ROI) and building a business case for text analytics to analyze unstructured content like emails, PDFs and blogs is challenging but worthwhile, as Intuit found.

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Gartner's recent Magic Quadrant report finds that the data quality management software and data integration tools markets continue to converge, as organizations stress both data accuracy and delivery.

Vertica Systems' data warehouse is now available on demand, but questions remain about the viability of cloud computing-based business intelligence.

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Spending on business intelligence and performance management technologies and services will exceed $57 billion in 2008, according to a recent survey.

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted in favor of a proposal to mandate XBRL for financial filings.

Successfully implementing business intelligence in the healthcare industry demands a balance of financial and clinical data, as well as privacy and government regulations.

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After a slow start, master data management is starting to make headway in the public sector, helping state and federal agencies tackle identity management.

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In the course of a major Windows and Cisco infrastructure upgrade, apparel company Union Bay added monitoring capabilities to improve IT operations.

Enterprise mashups make integrating data quick and easy for business users. But without proper planning, mashups can be a nightmare for IT.