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An IT Progression
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Cloud Makes Microsoft Relevant Again
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

How CEOs See Cloud Computing
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

And a Sawyer Takes the Pot
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

What Does It Mean to “Govern Data ”?
by Robert S. Seiner on BeyeNETWORK.com

DoD Requires Hacker Certification
by Elizabeth Montalbano on InformationWeek.com

What is Corporate Data?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Master Data Management: Moving Forward ...
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

The 10 Most Strategic IT Vendors
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Reversing Costs of Poor Quality Information
by Larry P. English on BeyeNETWORK.com

Thin Air in the Ivory Tower
by David McCleary on BeyeNETWORK.com

Marketing Business Intelligence
by Richard Herschel on BeyeNETWORK.com

Data Governance, Your Metrics Facilitator
by Frank Davis on BeyeNETWORK.com

Identifying Profitable Niches in BI
by J.Kuster & C.Rouse on BeyeNETWORK.com

Text Analytics Opportunities & Challenges
by Seth Grimes on BeyeNETWORK.com

Analysis and Amnesia in IT
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Climate Change for Business Intelligence Leaders and Sponsors
by Maureen Clarry on BeyeNETWORK.com

The Role of BI as a Business Enabler
by Lyndsay Wise on BeyeNETWORK.com

Corporate Data: A Brief History
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

IT Managers Have Had Enough
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

In Defense Of Profiling
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Hope for Haiti Now - Give Generously
from TDAN.com & Robert S. Seiner

Business Relevance
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Business Intelligence – Repositioning Information in the Organizational Psyche
by Nancy Williams on BeyeNETWORK.com

Don't Rush To Cloud Computing
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

Business Intelligence: The Trinity of User Adoption
by Laura Madsen on BeyeNETWORK.com

The Promise of Free Business Intelligence
by Lyndsay Wise on BeyeNETWORK.com

A Tale of Two People
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Operational Business Intelligence by Accident
by Rick van der Lans on BeyeNETWORK.com

Y2K: 10 Years Later
by Paul Krill on InfoWorld.com

Logical Arguments and Business Intelligence
by Richard Herschel on BeyeNETWORK.com

How Cloud Computing Changed IT in 2009
by David Linthicum on InfoWorld.com

IT Heresy: 5 Radical Resolutions for 2010
by Galen Gruman on InfoWorld.com

Enterprise IT Meets Survivor Syndrome
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

The Top 10 CIO Issues For 2010
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

A Modern Gothic Tale
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Customer Analytics
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Logical Arguments and Business Intelligence
by Richard Herschel on BeyeNETWORK.com

The 'Jobs Summit' &The Role Of Government
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Five Steps to Keep an Organization from Fumbling Its Analytics Implementation
by Royce Bell on BeyeNETWORK.com

How To Improve End-User Device Strategy
by Jonathan Feldman on InformationWeek.com

The Data Audit Imperative
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

What’s Up with Cloud Analytics?
by Dave Wells on BeyeNETWORK.com

Pundits, Facts, And Competing Goals
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing: Leading Change and Growth
by Maureen Clarry on BeyeNETWORK.com

Building A Brand Takes IT Flexibility

by Brian Gillooly on InformationWeek.com

How Locked In To Vendors Are You?
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

How Executive Information Systems Evolved Into Performance Dashboards
by Craig Schiff on BeyeNETWORK.com

People Want Technology Focused On Results, Not ''Solutions''
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

2 Sides of Office Politics: Know the Difference
by Bob Evan on InformationWeek.com

Information Quality Professionals as Consumer Advocates
by Larry English on BeyeNETWORK.com

IT-Led Opportunities Abound, So Stop Sniveling
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

How IT Builds Brands
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Why Industry Giants Get Caught Flat-Footed?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Shewhart, Deming and Data
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Cloud Computing: Security & Privacy Concerns
by Staff on CIOUpdate.com

What a Data Warehouse is Not
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Making Business Intelligence More Consumable
by Claudia Imhoff & Colin White on BeyeNETWORK.com

No Company is an Island – Beyond the Enterprise
by Timothy Leonard on BeyeNETWORK.com

No Company is an Island – Beyond the Enterprise
by Timothy Leonard on BeyeNETWORK.com

Practical Approaches to Data Quality Management in Business Intelligence and Performance Management
by John Thurma on BeyeNETWORK.com

Are Software Developers Naturally Weird?
by Eric Spiegel on Datamation.com

Budgeting Time for Data Stewardship
by Frank Dravis on BeyeNETWORK.com

Research Shows Cutting Costs Not a Government IT Priority
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

Suicide Strategy For CIOs: Aligning IT With The Business
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

The Evolution of Unstructured Data
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

MDM and the Challenge of Reality
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

The Trial-and-Error Method for Data Integration
by Rick Sherman on BeyeNETWORK.com

Want to Start an Online Academic Business Intelligence Program
by Ira Yermish, Ph. D. on BeyeNETWORK.com

Development: Different Perspectives
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Survey Reveals Disappointment with IT
by Carrie Burns on Information-Management.com

What to Do with Bad Data?
by Tom Breur on BeyeNETWORK.com

The Fate of Thought Leadership in the Computer Industry
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Textual Discovery and Textual Analysis
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

How to Prepare for Data Mining
by Ben Hitt Ph. D. & Eric King on BeyeNETWORK.com

Half a Loaf Information Systems
by Seth Grimes on BeyeNETWORK.com

Five Fail-Proof Guidelines for Governance, Risk and Compliance
by Johnnie Konstantis on Information-Management.com

Predicting the Future
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

What Is So Different About Business Intelligence Today?
by Shaku Atre on BeyeNETWORK.com

People Say the Darndest Things About Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Business Drivers and Master Data
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

What Business Intelligence Options Exist in Tough Economic Times?
by Lyndsay Wise on BeyeNETWORK.com

Development Methodology: What's the Story?
by Bill Inmon on the B-Eye-Network.com

Beyond BI to RealTime Operational Intelligence
by Dale Skeen on the Information-Management.com

Collaborative Analytics – An Emerging Practice
by Dave Wells on the B-Eye-Network.com

Business Intelligence Data Analysis and Visualization: What’s in a Name?
by Colin White on the BeyeNETWORK

Business Intelligence Tools: Year in Review
by Cindi Howson on the BeyeNETWORK

Confessions of a Data Governance Sponsor
by Jill Dyché on the BeyeNETWORK

The Top 10 Data Modeling Endless Debates of All Time
by Malcolm Chisholm on B-Eye-Network

Data Warehousing After the Bubble
by Lou Agosta on B-Eye-Network

The Changing Face of Business Intelligence
by David Wells on B-Eye-Network

Knowledge and Information Workers: Who Are They?
by Colin White on B-Eye-Network

Does Cross-Selling Justify Master Data Management?
by David Loshin on B-Eye-Network

The Ins and Outs of Business Intelligence for the Mid-Market
by Lyndsay Wise on B-Eye-Network

Data Warehousing in the Clouds
by Lou Agosta on the BeyeNETWORK

Elusive Data Quality
by Bill Inmon on the BeyeNETWORK

Improving Business Intelligence: 6 Sigma Way
by Dorothy Miller on B-Eye-Network

The Short-Lived Data Mart
by Bill Inmon on the BeyeNETWORK

Quality of Data and Quality in Context
by David Loshin on the BeyeNETWORK

One Source of the Truth: Common Business Intelligence Terms Defined
by Steve Dine on the B-Eye-Network

The Business Intelligence Education Problem
by Richard Herschel on the B-Eye Network

The Business Intelligence Model of Conflicting Interests
by Karien Verhagen on the B-Eye Network

Using Vocabularies to Improve Findability
by Jean Bedord on the B-Eye Network

Marketing Your Business Intelligence Program
by Nancy Williams on the B-Eye Network

Business Intelligence in the Cloud: Sorting Out the Terminology
by Colin White on the B-Eye Network

From Operational Business Intelligence to Competing on Decisions
by James Taylor on the B-Eye Network

The Dirty Job of Data Governance
by Jill Dyché on b-eye-network.com

Master Data Management Readiness
by David Loshin on b-eye-network.com

Building the Inexpensive Data Warehouse
by Bill Inmon on b-eye-network.com

Building the Inexpensive Data Warehouse
by Bill Inmon on b-eye-network.com

Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
by Richard Herschel on b-eye-network.com

Keeping Up With Data Management, Data Governance, Data Stewardship and Information Management
by Maureen Clarry on b-eye-network.com

Technicians – Repeating the Pattern
by Bill Inmon on B-Eye-Network.com

Bad Data (or Is It?)
by Bill Inmon on B-Eye-Network.com

Business Intelligence and the IT Portfolio
by Nancy Williams on B-Eye-Network.com

Grounding Your IQ Management in Sound Quality Management Systems
by Larry P. English on B-Eye Network

The Information Life Cycle
by Danette McGilvray on B-Eye-Network

A Brief History of ETL
by Bill Inmon on B-Eye-Network

Data Stewardship and Pain
by Bill Inmon on B-Eye Network

Is Data Warehousing Essential to Business Intelligence?
by Colin White on B-Eye Network

Your Business Intelligence Program
by Jill Dyché on B-Eye Network

Why Are Data Warehouses Growing So Fast?
by Richard Winter on B-Eye-Network

Business Analytics – Getting the Point
by Dave Wells on B-Eye-Network

IT Culture and the EIM Paradigm Shift
by Malcolm Chisholm on B-Eye-Network

Services Metadata for Master Data Mgmt
by David Loshin on B-Eye Network

The Role of Business Intelligence in Managing Compliance
by Shawn Edney, Greg Nelson on B-Eye Network

Identifying Opportunities to Create Innovative Decision Support Systems
by Dan Power on B-Eye Network

Six Archetypes of a Bad Executive Sponsor
by Jill Dyché on B-Eye Network

A Six Sigma Initiative for Business Intelligence
by Dorothy Miller on B-Eye Network

The Tyranny of Projects
by Malcolm Chisholm on B-Eye Network

What is Master Data?
by Malcolm Chisholm on B-Eye Network

Master Data Synchronization – Assessing Requirements
by David Loshin on B-Eye Network

Completeness of Metadata
by Bill Inmon on B-Eye Network

A Manifesto for Information Knowledge Management
by Malcolm Chisholm on B-Eye Network

How Long Should the Data Model Take?
by Bill Inmon on B-Eye Network

Metadata and Sub-Metadata
by Pete Loshin on B-Eye Network

Taming the World of Unstructured Data
By Craig Carpenter on DM Review

Overcoming the Barriers to Business Intelligence Success
By Mitchell Ocampo on DM Review

The Inside Work of Accountability
By Maureen Clarry on B-Eye Network

Requirements for Modeling Metrics
By David Loshin on B-Eye Network

Is the Term “Data Asset” an Oxymoron?
By Richard Skriletz on B-Eye Network

State of the CIO 2007: Beyond Execution
By Christopher Koch

ABC: An Introduction to Agile Programming
By John Paul Mueller

How Green Data Centers Save Money
By Stephanie Overby

The Secret to Driving ROI in MDM: Get the Business Involved
By Neeraj Gokhale

The Next Wave of Business Analytics
By Dan Vesset and Brian McDonough

BI How-To - Oh Where, Oh Where, Did the ODS Go?
By Joyce Norris-Montanari

BI 2.0: The Next Generation
By Charles Nicholls

Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable
By Neil Raden

Avoiding Common DashboardPitfalls
By Matt Christensen

Information Strategy - The Data Governance Component of EDM
By Jane Griffin

Kimball University: Pick the Right Approach to MDM
By Warren Thornthwaite

Generation X: Stepping Up to the Leadership Plate
By Deborah Gilburg

Master Data Management - A Systematic Approach
By Matthew Beyer

Seven Trends for 2007
By Doug Henschen, David Stodder, Penny Crosman, Michael Mcclellan, Neal Mcwhorter, and David Patterson

The ROI of Alignment - CIO

The Essential Elements of Business Performance Management
By Bill Collins

MDM for Business Information Initiatives
By David Waddington

Mission Intelligence: Reader Resolutions for the New Year
By David Stodder

Data Governance: A Necessity in an Integrated Information World
By Danette McGilvray

A Process-Centric Approach to Business Intelligence
By Colin White

Innovation Asset Management: Don't Bottle Up Creativity
By Stewart McKie

The Business Case For SOA
By Jeanne Harris and David Nichols

18 Signs You're About to Get Fired
By Meridith Levinson

The Four Stages of Enterprise Architecture
By Galen Gruman

Avoiding Common Dashboard Pitfalls
By Matt Christensen

Information Strategy - The Data Governance Component of EDM
By Jane Griffin

Governance Gauge: Beware the Weaknesses in Content Compliance
By Penny Crosman

Managing Data Warehouse Growth
By Richard Winter and Rick Burns

IT's Rising Stock
By Matt Villano

Whose Business Is Process Improvement Anyway?
By Meridith Levinson

If You Build It (Right), IT Will Work
By Carrie Mathews

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By Thomas Wailgum

MDM for Business Information Initiatives
By David Waddington

The Essential Elements of Business Performance Management
By Bill Collins

Virtualization Tools Raise Your Innovation Awareness
By Stewart McKie

Power Shift
By Michael Friedenberg

New Roles, New Processes for SOA
By Carrie Mathews

How to Get Inspired
By Mike Hugos

Customer Data Integration
By Aaron Zornes

Keeping Score
By Colin Snow

Staying a Step Ahead of Fraud
By Michael Voelker

Everyone Gets to Play
By Lynn H. Vogel

The Global State of Information Security 2006
By Allan Holmes

Untethered But Not Disconnected
By Thomas Wailgum

Liability and Leverage - A Case for Data Quality
By Philip Russom

Data Quality: Horizontal or Vertical?
By Frank Dravis

The Drive to Structured IT Management
By Dennis Drogseth

Data Looks for a Home
By Cindy Waxer

All That Data
By Thomas Wailgum

Plan Globally, Deploy Locally
By Christopher Koch

Trends in Operational BI
By Amit Chemburkar and Prasanna Keny

Unstuck in the Middle
By Matt Villano

Creating Effective KPIs
By Wayne Eckerson

Kimball University: Data Stewardship 101: First Step to Quality and Consistency
By Bob Becker

IT's Good News
By Susan Cramm

The reality of virtualization
By John K. Waters

New ways to police the enterprise
By Alan Joch

If SOA Looks Hard to You, You're Looking at it Wrong
By John Sadd

Governance Dashboard for Enterprise Storage
By Dick Benton

Breakthrough Analysis: A Data Space for Information Coexistence
By Seth Grimes

Processes Get Smart
By Penny Crosman

"CSI" for the Enterprise?
By GALEN GRUMAN

Master Data versus Reference Data
By Malcolm Chisholm

Data Integration: Still a Barrier for Most Organizations
By Colin White

Governance Gauge: To Stay Compliant, Train
By Randolph Kahn

Can SAP Catch Up in On-Demand CRM?
By Jeff Morris

So You Want to Get Into "The Business"?
By MARTHA HELLER

The Hammer of Consensus
By Michael Schrage

The Hammer of Consensus
By Michael Schrage

Rx for Risk
By Allan Holmes

The Future of Data Management
By Michael Scofield

Replicating the Business Strategy of Others
By R. Todd Stephens, Ph.D.

The Perfect Search
By Penny Crosman

The Search for One Truth
By Susana Schwartz

The Worst Job in IT
By SUSAN CRAMM

Survivor: The Organization
By Susan Cramm

New Business Rules to Live By
By Linda L. Briggs

What Kind of CIO Are You
By Michael Friedenberg

The Dawn of a New Era: What's Next in Business Intelligence?
By Don Allen Price

Coping with Compliance: Sarbanes-Oxley and the IT Infrastructure
By Robert Douglas

Governance Gauge: The Regulatory Pendulum Swings
By Robert Kugel

See It Coming
By Wayne W. Eckerson

New Technologies, New Anxieties
By Chris Lindquist

The Truth About On-Demand CRM
By Stephanie Overby

Benchmarks for BI and Data Warehousing Success
By Ariyachandra and Watson

ETL is a Symptom of the Problem, not the Solution!
By Ken Karacsony

Today's Budget Tomorrow's Plan
By Doug Henschen

The New IT Department: The Top Three Positions You Need
By Stephanie Overby

The Web Is the Platform
By John K. Waters

There is No Single Version of the Truth
By Malcolm Chisholm

Search in Focus: Implementing a Taxonomy
By Penny Crosman

Nothing Is Simple
By David Rosenbaum

BI 2.0: The Next Generation
By Charles Nicholls

Analysis: Keep Up With the Trends Changing Data Management
By David Stodder

Beyond Vista
By Ben Worthen

The Art of Influence
By Allan Holmes

Master Data Management - A Systematic Approach
By Matthew Beyer

Analysis: Where Rules Management and BPM Meet
By Bruce Silver

The Complying Game
By Susannah Patton

The CIO Role: Predictions
By Abbie Lundberg

Logical Data Modeling: A Key to Successful Enterprise Data Warehouse Implementations
By Sreedhar Srikant

The Seven Pillars of BI Success
By Cindi Howson

The New Science of Change
By Christopher Koch

The CIO-CSO Partnership
By Michael Goldberg

What Does Innovation Look Like?
By Abbie Lundberg

Career Considerations in the Field of Business Intelligence
By Weitzman & Wu

IT Governance: Round Em Up!
By Lisa Erickson-Harris

IT Versus Terror
By Ben Worthen

Are You a Dinosaur?
By Abbie Lundberg

Data Infrastructure Hygiene and the Imperative of Organized Growth
By Charles Garry

The Next Wave of Data Management
By Jill Dyche and Evan Levy

Cost Cutting. Again?
By David Rosenbaum

The Truth About SOA
By Christopher Koch

Redefining Big Data
By Jim Ericson

Enterprise Content Management: Hide What's Inside
By Alan Pelz-Sharpe and Girish Iyer

Making IT Portfolio Management a Reality
By Sari Kalin

The SOA-wise enterprise
By Alan Radding

The Long View: Where is Data Quality Headed?
By Len Dubois

Business Process Management: Never Rest
By Andrew Spanyi

The Postmodern Manifesto
By Christopher Koch

Justifying and Implementing Master Data Management
By William McKnight

Location, Location, Location
By Joe Francica

The Competitive Advantage
By Michael Friednberg

The Metrics Trap...And How to Avoid It
By Christoper Koch

3 Ways to Do More With Less
By Sarah D. Scalet

The Next Wave Is Here
By Abbie Lundberg

Old School, New School
By Ralph Kimball

Let The Data Flow
By Mike Ferguson

Hidden Costs Come Home to Roost
By David Rosenbaum

Masters of Their Data Domains
By Alan R. Earls

The Constancy of Change
By Abbie Lundberg

Master Data Management in Practice: The Problem of Identity
By Malcolm Chisholm

Time To Govern Your Data
By Mark Smith

Inside an IT Marketing Campaign
By Meredith Levinson

Not Just for Bosses Anymore
By Meredith Levinson

Chart Your Course to Strategically Align Business and Technology
By Patrick Durbin

Voice of Our Readers: The 2006 Strategic Management Survey
By David Stodder

The Changing CIO Role: The Dual Demands of Strategy and Execution
By Allan Holmes

Data on Demand
By Alan Joch