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Everett School District Bolsters Its Information Management Platform, Improving Data Availability and Reducing Maintenance Tasks 2006-10-20 01:00:16 IBM

Everett School District is a public school system serving the city of Everett, Washington. Everett School District was running administrative applications that often needed to be brought offline to perform time-consuming maintenance tasks. The applications lacked reporting and data extraction functionality, making it difficult for the district to manage student records and conduct internal financial reporting. To promote greater availability while reducing maintenance tasks and enhancing application functionality, Everett School District needed to revamp its information management platform. Using a suite of IBM Informix software, Everett School District implemented a highly available information management platform that extends powerful reporting and data extraction capabilities.

DataFlux Version 8: Accelerate to Compliance, Data Governance and MDM 2007-01-23 01:00:26 SAS Institute

Increased competition in a global marketplace is forcing many businesses to re-think their data management strategies and techniques. After all, better data fuels better decisions about customers, products, suppliers and strategic partnerships. However, organizations typically store and manage information within multiple divisions, regions and languages, creating silos of non-integrated data. And as this data multiplies, data governance becomes increasingly important in solving the problems that inevitably occur across so many divisions within the enterprise. To adequately understand the business and keep pace in this increasingly global environment, one needs a technology capable of consolidating and maintaining corporate data on a single, unified master data repository.

IBM Tivoli Software Demo: Availability Management for the SMB 2006-10-19 01:00:15 IBM

By the time an unhappy user contacts your help desk about an availability issue or other problem, the damage to your customer satisfaction levels has already been done. That's why today's small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) need a premier-grade infrastructure management tool. To learn about one such solution, view this Macromedia Flash demo from IBM. You'll see how IBM Tivoli software, a powerful and easy-to-use monitoring solution, helps you to:

Proactively manage infrastructure availability

Quickly diagnose and resolve bottlenecks, performance impacts,
and outages
Reduce the complexity of managing your IT environment

Monitor, analyze, correlate, and automate functions from a centralized and robust portal environment

View the performance metrics you need in a format you prefer

Solving the Data Quality Problem 2006-10-27 01:00:16 TriTuns Innovation

This paper examines the nature, cause and impact of data quality problems in typical IT system implementations. It argues that the extent and impact of poor data quality is largely misunderstood and often ignored. It is proposed that the problem of poor data quality is primarily a behavioral problem, not a technological problem. This paper provides an approach for improving data quality through clear accountability for the prevention, detection and correction of data problems.

Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS 2006-10-11 01:00:17 APQC

This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from functional-based to process-based and what benefits are yielded. Learn what works and what doesn't, using best-practices leading organizations leverage to truly create value. These organizations illustrate how they have determined what technology to use, how technology integrates into operational environment, how it accelerates process change, and what near-term benefits will be delivered.

Launching Your CDI Program: The Pitch, the People, the Plan 2007-01-23 01:00:26 SAS Institute

Customer Data Integration (CDI) has one foot in established systems - those that need newly-robust customer data on demand - and the other in a new paradigm of automated data management and purpose-built data integration. Marrying incumbent technologies, available skill sets, and business processes with a new paradigm of "Integration on demand" means that launching a CDI effort is different, arguably more specialized, than other strategic IT programs. This paper describes the critical success factors to consider when starting up CDI, involving larger Master Data Management (MDM) principles, but delivering business value incrementally and quickly. The paper defines CDI as the automation of the integration, reconciliation and management of customer reference data from enterprise systems and to enterprise systems.

The CIO's Guide to Taking Data Asset Metrics to the Boardroom 2007-01-23 01:00:26 SAS Institute

Data quality and data integration can affect all aspects of an organization. Without consistent, accurate and reliable data, companies cannot respond to trends and meet customer expectations. This white paper explains how reports on data quality initiatives can help executives understand the impact of data quality - and what CIOs need to know to foster an environment of continual data improvement.

Oracle Case Study: Xiangtan Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Founded in 1958, Xiangtan Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. (XISC) is a leading national steel conglomerate and a major producer of wire and metal products in China. XISC wanted to restructure workflows by establishing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to integrate the flow of materials, money, and information and improve data accuracy of its 60,000 items and material codes, allowing managers to obtain precise production management data quickly. The company wanted to build a flexible ERP system that meets its current and future IT needs. XISC chose Oracle's ERP system for its openness, which allowed the company to fully integrate its applications and ensure the integrity, speed, and accuracy of the data in its production systems.

Oracle Case Study: Xiamen City Commercial Bank 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Founded in 1996, Xiamen City Commercial Bank is a cooperative created by 15 regional financial institutions. The bank wanted to establish a database-driven business system to keep track of new products and services and create a central repository of information to minimize data duplication and inaccuracies. Xiamen City Commercial Bank wanted to facilitate the speedy processing of large amounts of data and ensure scalability and availability of core business infrastructure. Xiamen City Commercial Bank established an integrated, high-performance business and data processing infrastructure for 32 branch banks and improved data accuracy by gathering and storing critical business information in a central database. The bank strengthened business intelligence and management information by enabling reports to be created in near real time.

Vitopel Unifies Processes Across Three Plants, Lowering Costs and Raising Productivity 2006-10-06 01:00:14 Oracle

Vitopel is the biggest Latin American producer of polypropylene products, a chemical compound more resistant than plastic used to manufacture products ranging from ad labels to ceilings and decorative panels. Vitopel wanted to centralize key business processes for plants in Argentina and Brazil, including supply management, production, commercial, human resources and administration, and finances. They wanted to eliminate outdated accounting, inventory and human resources applications, whose capacity was limited and required expensive and time-consuming manual processing. The company wanted to redefine work and data-processing models and choose an ERP system that provides integration, scalability and flexibility at a reasonable cost. Vitopel implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition and Oracle Discoverer.

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Title	Date Added	Company
Everett School District Bolsters Its Information Management Platform, Improving Data Availability and Reducing Maintenance Tasks	2006-10-20 01:00:16	IBM
Everett School District is a public school system serving the city of Everett, Washington. Everett School District was running administrative applications that often needed to be brought offline to perform time-consuming maintenance tasks. The applications lacked reporting and data extraction functionality, making it difficult for the district to manage student records and conduct internal financial reporting. To promote greater availability while reducing maintenance tasks and enhancing application functionality, Everett School District needed to revamp its information management platform. Using a suite of IBM Informix software, Everett School District implemented a highly available information management platform that extends powerful reporting and data extraction capabilities.
DataFlux Version 8: Accelerate to Compliance, Data Governance and MDM	2007-01-23 01:00:26	SAS Institute
Increased competition in a global marketplace is forcing many businesses to re-think their data management strategies and techniques. After all, better data fuels better decisions about customers, products, suppliers and strategic partnerships. However, organizations typically store and manage information within multiple divisions, regions and languages, creating silos of non-integrated data. And as this data multiplies, data governance becomes increasingly important in solving the problems that inevitably occur across so many divisions within the enterprise. To adequately understand the business and keep pace in this increasingly global environment, one needs a technology capable of consolidating and maintaining corporate data on a single, unified master data repository.
IBM Tivoli Software Demo: Availability Management for the SMB	2006-10-19 01:00:15	IBM
By the time an unhappy user contacts your help desk about an availability issue or other problem, the damage to your customer satisfaction levels has already been done. That's why today's small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) need a premier-grade infrastructure management tool. To learn about one such solution, view this Macromedia Flash demo from IBM. You'll see how IBM Tivoli software, a powerful and easy-to-use monitoring solution, helps you to: Proactively manage infrastructure availability Quickly diagnose and resolve bottlenecks, performance impacts, and outages Reduce the complexity of managing your IT environment Monitor, analyze, correlate, and automate functions from a centralized and robust portal environment View the performance metrics you need in a format you prefer
Solving the Data Quality Problem	2006-10-27 01:00:16	TriTuns Innovation
This paper examines the nature, cause and impact of data quality problems in typical IT system implementations. It argues that the extent and impact of poor data quality is largely misunderstood and often ignored. It is proposed that the problem of poor data quality is primarily a behavioral problem, not a technological problem. This paper provides an approach for improving data quality through clear accountability for the prevention, detection and correction of data problems.
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS	2006-10-11 01:00:17	APQC
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from functional-based to process-based and what benefits are yielded. Learn what works and what doesn't, using best-practices leading organizations leverage to truly create value. These organizations illustrate how they have determined what technology to use, how technology integrates into operational environment, how it accelerates process change, and what near-term benefits will be delivered.
Launching Your CDI Program: The Pitch, the People, the Plan	2007-01-23 01:00:26	SAS Institute
Customer Data Integration (CDI) has one foot in established systems - those that need newly-robust customer data on demand - and the other in a new paradigm of automated data management and purpose-built data integration. Marrying incumbent technologies, available skill sets, and business processes with a new paradigm of "Integration on demand" means that launching a CDI effort is different, arguably more specialized, than other strategic IT programs. This paper describes the critical success factors to consider when starting up CDI, involving larger Master Data Management (MDM) principles, but delivering business value incrementally and quickly. The paper defines CDI as the automation of the integration, reconciliation and management of customer reference data from enterprise systems and to enterprise systems.
The CIO's Guide to Taking Data Asset Metrics to the Boardroom	2007-01-23 01:00:26	SAS Institute
Data quality and data integration can affect all aspects of an organization. Without consistent, accurate and reliable data, companies cannot respond to trends and meet customer expectations. This white paper explains how reports on data quality initiatives can help executives understand the impact of data quality - and what CIOs need to know to foster an environment of continual data improvement.
Oracle Case Study: Xiangtan Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd.	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Founded in 1958, Xiangtan Iron & Steel Group Co., Ltd. (XISC) is a leading national steel conglomerate and a major producer of wire and metal products in China. XISC wanted to restructure workflows by establishing an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to integrate the flow of materials, money, and information and improve data accuracy of its 60,000 items and material codes, allowing managers to obtain precise production management data quickly. The company wanted to build a flexible ERP system that meets its current and future IT needs. XISC chose Oracle's ERP system for its openness, which allowed the company to fully integrate its applications and ensure the integrity, speed, and accuracy of the data in its production systems.
Oracle Case Study: Xiamen City Commercial Bank	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Founded in 1996, Xiamen City Commercial Bank is a cooperative created by 15 regional financial institutions. The bank wanted to establish a database-driven business system to keep track of new products and services and create a central repository of information to minimize data duplication and inaccuracies. Xiamen City Commercial Bank wanted to facilitate the speedy processing of large amounts of data and ensure scalability and availability of core business infrastructure. Xiamen City Commercial Bank established an integrated, high-performance business and data processing infrastructure for 32 branch banks and improved data accuracy by gathering and storing critical business information in a central database. The bank strengthened business intelligence and management information by enabling reports to be created in near real time.
Vitopel Unifies Processes Across Three Plants, Lowering Costs and Raising Productivity	2006-10-06 01:00:14	Oracle
Vitopel is the biggest Latin American producer of polypropylene products, a chemical compound more resistant than plastic used to manufacture products ranging from ad labels to ceilings and decorative panels. Vitopel wanted to centralize key business processes for plants in Argentina and Brazil, including supply management, production, commercial, human resources and administration, and finances. They wanted to eliminate outdated accounting, inventory and human resources applications, whose capacity was limited and required expensive and time-consuming manual processing. The company wanted to redefine work and data-processing models and choose an ERP system that provides integration, scalability and flexibility at a reasonable cost. Vitopel implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Special Edition and Oracle Discoverer.