Data quality is crucial – it assesses whether information can serve its purpose in a particular context (such as data analysis, for example). So, how do you determine the quality of a given set of...

Products and the channels through which businesses sell them have become vastly more complex over the past several decades. As commerce has become increasingly digitized, product variations have...

Anyone who has worked with ERP software understands data quality problems that create small points of friction for the people who use the system on a day-to-day basis eventually emerge. At best,...

IBM IMS (Information Management System) is a database and transaction management system that was first introduced by IBM in 1968.  While IMS is still widely used in Fortune 1000 and global...

Virtually everything in your business depends on IT running smoothly. For most enterprises, service outages result in lost productivity, missed opportunities for revenue, and sometimes severe...

If you operate a financial services organization, you want your individual branches to perform at their best. Historically, banks and credit unions have used a variety of methods to determine...

To properly manage your company’s IT infrastructure, it’s essential to have timely information about events happening within the environment. Key IT management objectives, such as maintaining...

Metadata provides crucial information that powers accurate analytics for rich business insights. And an effective metadata management strategy relies on a comprehensive data governance framework....

Corporate IT environments have evolved greatly over the past decade. Most companies are running systems across a mix of on-premise data centers and public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. That...