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• 5 steps to an improved data quality assurance plan

  Consultant David Loshin offers tips on developing a data quality strategy that can help identify data errors before they cause big business problems. Continue Reading

• DOD CDO shares 7 data management best practices

  The DOD's first chief data officer, Michael Conlin, shares tips on how organizations can modernize their data management practices with the objective of matching private enterprise. Continue Reading

• Align business and IT drivers through data quality best practices

  Information management consultants talk about the importance of aligning business and IT drivers for a holistic architectural approach to ensuring strong data quality. Continue Reading

• Third-party database tools boast attractive alternatives

  For companies considering third-party database tools, this handbook provides expert advice on evaluating and deploying on-premises and cloud options from third parties. Continue Reading

• Database management tools from third parties make natives restless

  Third-party database performance tools offer attractive alternatives to management software from DBMS vendors, provided their capabilities include orchestration, governance and integration. Continue Reading

• GDPR, AI intensify privacy and data protection compliance demands

  This guide covers the challenges data management teams face on data protection and privacy, particularly with the rise of GDPR and similar laws and the growing use of AI tools.Continue Reading

• Information Builders exec talks data management ethics

  In this Q&A, James Cotton, director of the Data Management Centre of Excellence at Information Builders, offers advice on how organizations can carry out ethical data management.Continue Reading

• Data modeling techniques to overcome common business challenges

  In this interview, author and data modeling instructor Steve Hoberman discusses techniques for dealing with challenges that may arise in the data modeling process.Continue Reading

• How 4 organizations are breaking down data silos

  Siloed data continues to inhibit enterprise efficiency. Here, IT professionals discuss problems their organizations are facing around data silos -- and how they're solving them.Continue Reading

• Building leaner, meaner BI data sources

  As business intelligence analysis and reporting platforms become increasingly important in the enterprise, so does the data that feeds them. Are your BI data sources up to par?Continue Reading

• Data virtualization tools promote anywhere, anytime data access

  This online handbook examines data virtualization software and how organizations are deploying and using the technology as part of their data integration processes.Continue Reading

• Data virtualization benefits seen in unified views, IT agility

  Through in-place integration, data virtualization platforms can provide wider access to data and simplify security and governance. But they come with some limitations.Continue Reading

• Data virtualization layer feeds logical data warehouse, Agile BI

  Indiana University is using data virtualization to combine data from various source systems for analysis, as part of an initiative to improve strategic decision-making.Continue Reading

• Data modeling best practices power analytics, business apps

  Data modeling is a key part of data management and analytics. This handbook highlights best practices for creating data models and new functionality in modeling tools.Continue Reading

• How data staging helped Walgreens transform its supply chain

  Walgreens built a centralized data warehouse to give supply chain partners a better view into its data -- but analytics were slow. That's where a data staging tier came in.Continue Reading