data warehouse

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Many data warehouse operators have attempted to implement Master Data Management to improve data quality, but most have focused on mastering data after transactions occur. This approach does little to improve quality because data is "fixed" after the fact. The best way to improve data quality is to move the process upstream of the data warehouse and before transactions are executed.

These eight steps helped the University of Pennsylvania Health System successfully complete six projects.

Data warehousing appliance vendor Netezza said Tuesday it has bought Tizor Systems, maker of data auditing and protection software. Terms were not disclosed.

NYSE Euronext Inc., which operates the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext and other stock markets, has turned to data warehousing appliances from Greenplum Inc. and Netezza Corp. as it consolidates its business intelligence systems.

Overall, Kilimanjaro is Microsoft’s attempt to bolster its presence and visibility in the end-user BI market, move up the business value chain and bring Microsoft one step closer to delivering on its promise of ‘BI for the masses’. Will it succeed?

Within the next 12 months, Microsoft will start extending SQL Server to support very large volumes of data, based on technology it acquired from DATAllegro.

By combining BI and two foundations of Web 2.0 -- search and mapping -- a police department in Kentucky has built a brand-new window into crime. This Web-based BI portal allows patrol officers to enter data -- or even pieces of data such as a few numbers from a license plate -- into a simple search interface and retrieve information from their own databases and those of neighboring towns.