http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,2000586652b,00.htm Alena Semeshko's Blog - Data Integration Blog - Latest blog feeds at ZDNet UK en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:47:08 +0000 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:47:08 +0000 20 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) With the financial crisis, mass lay-offs and vanishing resources, companies get only more demanding. We emphasize reliability and get only more irritated if things are not neat, simple and under control. Software is the last thing you want to sweat abo... zdnetuk/10009767 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009767o-2000586652b,00.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:48:57 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Software as a Service…a concept that seems so attractive and luring. Yet you can’t but ignore how some companies are constantly criticizing it, telling the “horror stories” of how “friends of their friends” wasted time and resources depending on their Saa... zdnetuk/10009728 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009728o-2000586652b,00.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:52:16 +0000 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) CleanUp! You first hear these words as a kid from your parents. Clean Up! When you hear this you usually know you’ve made a mess. Clean Up! This is what you shouldn’t be hearing, or, for that matter, thinking, in regards to your company’s data. Or, at lea... zdnetuk/10009561 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009561o-2000586652b,00.htm Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:20:41 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) Data quality problems cost U.S. businesses more than $600 billion a year, according to The Data Warehousing Institute. (14 Dec 2007) How does that happen? How...]]> zdnetuk/10009531 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009531o-2000586652b,00.htm Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:39:27 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) zdnetuk/10009522 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009522o-2000586652b,00.htm Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:26:49 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) ETL - Extracting and reading data from the original source, Transforming it to suit your business, that is, cleansing and formatting it, and finally Loading(sending) it to your system/database/warehou...]]> zdnetuk/10009511 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009511o-2000586652b,00.htm Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:21:48 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) As much as companies are talking of committing to Business Intelligence principles in their daily work, the concept of BI still seems too utopian and vague to be successfully implemented throughout an enterprise. It's probably not that the definition is v... zdnetuk/10009497 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009497o-2000586652b,00.htm Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:05:36 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) I keep wondering how come data quality check still exists as a procedure performed once in a while, rather than as a part of the front-end process? How come most companies start worrying about the quality of your data only when it's already dirty and in u... zdnetuk/10009470 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009470o-2000586652b,00.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:57:43 +0100 mailroomuk@zdnet.com (A) data federation as something that joins data from different sources distributed around the company without actually moving it from the original s...]]> zdnetuk/10009433 http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009433o-2000586652b,00.htm Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:41:29 +0100