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Textual Data – A Brief Sojourn
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Create a Great Healthcare Analytics Team
by Scott Wanless on BeyeNETWORK.com

The Data Driven Social Enterprise
by Fritz Nelson on InformationWeek.com

Use Analytical Results to Drive Specific Process Improvement
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Applying Agile to Warehouse Projects
by Jim Gallo on BeyeNETWORK.com

Why IT & Business Can-t Get Along
by Bob Lewis on InfoWorld.com

Making Info Management Operational
by Richard Skrilitz on BeyeNETWORK.com

Predictions for Business Intelligence
by Cindi Howson on InformationWeek.com

Strategies To Fail Fast On IT Projects
by Jonathan Feldman on InfoWorld.com

Pt 2 of Big Data: Giant Wave or Huge Precipice?
by Barry Devlin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Why Personal Health Records Have Flopped
by Paul Cerrato on InformationWeek.com

Crazy Payday Shows What-s Wrong in Business
by Bill Snyder on InfoWorld.com

Plato and the Art of IT Governance
by Frank Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com

Big Data Plans: You Need More Than One
by Steve Duplessie on InformationWeek.com

Fake Plastic Steve
by Robert X. Cringely on InfoWorld.com

10 IT Shifts In 2012
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

Holiday Fun With Personal Collaboration
by Kurt Marko on InformationWeek.com

2012 Tech Predictions
by David Bromley on InfoWorld.com

Selling a Data Mining Project to Management
by Casey Klimasauskus on BeyeNETWORK.com

Organizational Readiness to Overcome Barriers Impeding Success
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Tech Industry Bozos of 2011
by Bill Snyder on InfoWorld.com

Solving the One Version of the Truth
by Frank Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com

Top 10 Tech Acquisitions Of 2011
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Use Holidays to Optimize IT Operations
by Staff on Datamation.com

Underused Asset in Banks and Insurance
by Jean-Michel Franco on BeyeNETWORK.com

How Data Virtualization Helps Data Integration Strategies
by Chris Bradley on BeyeNETWORK.com

IT Leader Survival Guide For 2012
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

Data Warehousing – The Vision
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Driving Business Analytics with the Consideration of Success Criteria
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

10 Social Networking Tips For CIOs
by Eric Lundquist on InformationWeek.com

What is Data Ownership?
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Unstructured Data Processing
by Krish Krishnan on BeyeNETWORK.com

Growing Importance of MDM
by Ron Powell on BeyeNETWORK.com

Innovation, Mobility and Trust
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Supply Chain Challenge Never Ends
by Josh Greenbaum on InformationWeek.com

Who Will Save GPS?
by Evan Hansen on Wired.com

Master Data Management
by William McKnight on BeyeNETWORK.com

How To Get One Version Of The Truth
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

The Privacy Gods Must Be Crazy
by Robert X. Cringely on InfoWorld.com

Big Data and Text
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

CIOs Get Practical On Cloud
by Fritz Nelson on InformationWeek.com

9 Equations True Geeks Should Know
by Wierd Science on Wired.com

More Acquisitions Ahead for IBM?
by Paul McDougall on InformationWeek.com

Organizing & Messing Up Data Governance
by Frank Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com

Preparing Data for Business Analytics
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

The Crisis That Hit Physics 100 Years Ago
by Adam Mann on Wired.com

Top 10 CIO Priorities

Social Meets Big Data

Visualize the Data Frame!

Big Data Push
by Fritz Nelson on InformationWeek.com

Death By Speculation
by Jonathan Feldman on InformationWeek.com

Evolving Security Threats
by Kevin Casey on InformationWeek.com

The Beautiful Data Model
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Giant Wave or Huge Precipice?
by Barry Devlin on BeyeNETWORK

What Steve Jobs Was and Was Not
by Howard Anderson on InformationWeek.com

No Longer The First Thing Cut
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Data Quality for Business Analytics
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Basic Research Is Critical
by Curtis Franklin Jr on EnterpriseEfficiency.com

Business Intelligence Architecture
by Wayne Eckerson on BeyeNETWORK.com

Benchmarking is Back
by Craig Schiff on BeyeNETWORK.com 

Stop Software Project Killers
by Larry Tieman on InformationWeek.com

Using or Abusing Data Analytics
by Frank on Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com

Statistical Abstract of the United States
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Data Breach Avoidance Requires Copy Cops?
by Mathew J. Schwartz on InformationWeek.com 

Business Intelligence: The Federated Option
by Wayne Eckerson on BeyeNETWORK.com

9/11: Lessons for Disaster Recovery
by Lucas Mearian on InfoWorld.com

Value of Cloud, Telecommuting Overstated
by Shane ONeil on InfoWorld.com

Info Systems: Carpenters & Architects
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

8 Signs Your IT Team is Too Slow
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Shape Up Before Heading to the Cloud
by David Linthicum on InfoWorld.com

Data Selection for Business Analytics
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

BI Programs for Healthcare
by Laura Madsen on BeyeNETWORK.com

You, Robot
by Al Williams on DrDobbs.com

A Look Back at Palm
by Ed Hansberry on InformationWeek.com

The PC is the New Mainframe
by Jon Brodkin on InfoWorld.com

You Know You-re From IT In 1990s If ...
by Debra Donston-Miller on InformationWeek.com

BI and the Elmendorf Rule
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Post-PC Era: Fact Or Fiction?
by Fritz Nelson on InformationWeek.com

Great IT Leaders Must Be Great Managers
by Larry Tieman on InformationWeek.com

Selling Technology
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Underlying Principle of Business Practices
by Frank Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com

CIO Vs. Information Access Mafia
by Howard Anderson on InformationWeek.com

Considering the Spectrum of Analysis
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

IT Jobs Are Growing, But Can It Last?
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Slowdown Will Not Derail IT Rebound
by Ted Samson on InfoWorld.com

10 Hard Truths for IT to Accept
by Dave Tynan on InfoWorld.com

Role of Business in Data Governance
by Kellie ONeal on BeyeNETWORK.com

Sentiment Analysis in Government
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Big Data – Same Problems?
by Chris Bradley on BeyeNETWORK.com

What are State & Status in Data Management?
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

IT Hiring & Promoting Not Exact Science
by Larry Tieman on InformationWeek.com

What Does an IT Manager Do All Day?
by Elizabeth Harrin on Datamation.com

Granularity Redux
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Subtle Trends in BI and Analytics
by Haranath Gnana on BeyeNETWORK.com

Knowledge Management & Knowledge Sharing
by Rao Nemani, Ph. D. on BeyeNETWORK.com

Building Agile Scrum Plans from BI Requirements
by Eric Etter on BeyeNETWORK.com

Facebook Broken for Business
by Mike Elgan on Datamation.com

Selecting the Right Business Processes to Subject to Reporting and Analysis
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Time to Guard Your Digital Certificates
by Robert Lemos on InfoWorld.com

Why Johnny Cant Program
by Neil McAllister on InfoWorld.com

The Future of Business Intelligence
by Richard Herschel on BeyeNETWORK.com

Educating the Next Generation of BI Pros
by Mark Bradbourne on BeyeNETWORK.com

How Steve Ballmer Could Exit Microsoft
by Woody Leonhard on InfoWorld.com

How to Succeed in IT Without Really Trying
by Paul Venezia on InfoWorld.com

IT Demand Remains Robust Despite Economy
by Fred OConner on InfoWorld.com

What Is Knowledge?
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Medieval IT Best Practices
from Frank Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com 

Data Warehousing: How Much Data?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

An Information Monetization Framework
by Derick Jose on BeyeNETWORK.com

Tips for Improving IQ Processes
by Larry English on SearchDataManagement.com

Users Now Run BI
by Larry Marion on Datamation.com

4 Steps To Spark Innovation
by Andrew Horne on InformationWeek.com

IT as a Service is the Future
by Charles Babcock on InformationWeek.com

The Law of Social Media
by Dan Liutikas on InformationWeek.com

The Cloud is All About Data
by Jeffrey Kaplan on Datamation.com

Framework For Developing Tech Leaders
by Larry Tieman on InformationWeek.com

Tech Bubble Reality Check
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Responding to '7 Dirty Consultant Tricks'
by Steve Miller on InfoWorld.com

Data Protection, Hidden in Plain Sight
by Leon Erlanger on InfoWorld.com

What Is a Category?
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Why Are IT Pros So Worried?
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Straightforward Analytics: Establish Measures
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Data Warehousing: The Generic Entity
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Data is Not Reality Pt 2
by Frank Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com 

Reactive to Predictive Analytics
by Elliott McClements on BeyeNETWORK.com

IT's Lords Of Discipline
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Data to Knowledge; Knowledge to Work
by Markus Sprenger on BeyeNETWORK.com

Who’s Got Architecture?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Biz Execs, Not Techies, Lead Innovation
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

The Good Data Mart
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Data Management: What is Abstraction?
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Real Cloud Imperative Is Greater Simplicity
by Charles Babcock on InformationWeek.com

What is Architecture?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Can You Do Agile Data Integration?
by Ralph Hughes on BeyeNETWORK.com

CIOs Sit Out The Opportunity of Lifetime?

by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

More Straightforward Analytics
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

There's Gotta Be A Better Way
by John McGreavy on InformationWeek.com

Social Media Is Changing CRM
by David F. Carr on InformationWeek.com

Games and Business Intelligence
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Freedom to be an Idiot
by Robert X. Cringely on InfoWorld.com

Early Warning Sign for Market Crashes
by Brandon Keim on Wired.com

Pinpointing Customer Behavior Predictors
by Derick Jose on BeyeNETWORK.com

Execs Worry Too Much About Data Quality
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Windows' Death Reports Greatly Exaggerated
by Bob Lewis on InfoWorld.com

Toward an Information Democracy
by Frank Buytendijk on BeyeNETWORK.com

Straightforward Analytics
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Junk Food Algorithms and the World
by Kim Zetter on Wired.com

IT Is Too Darn Slow

by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

10 Great Error Messages
by David Daw on InfoWorld.com

Dropping Curtain On AutoPlay
by David Methvin on InformationWeek.com

Brief History of IT Budgets
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Validation Part of Data Governance Program
by Steve Putman on BeyeNETWORK.com

Clinton On Tech's Promise & Problems
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

Staffers vs. Superstars
by James Maquire on Datamation.com

What Matters Most To IT Pros
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

Gen Y Can Kill Collaboration Projects
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

What Is Data?
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Institutionalized Reactivity to Data Errors
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Most Cloud-Friendly U.S. Cities
by Ted Samson on InfoWorld.com

Hiring Top IT Talent: the Reverse Interview
by Scott Alan Miller on Datamation.com

Database Gurus Tackle Cloud Challenges
by Chris Kanaracus on InfoWorld.com

Is The Sky Falling On Meaningful Use?
by Anthony Guerra on InformationWeek.com

Should Younger Developers be Paid More?
by Eric Spiegel on Datamation.com

Quantum Entanglement Stretch Across Time
by Lisa Grossman on Wired.com

Getting Ready for Data Warehousing
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Celebrating 10 Years of Wikipedia
by Gina Smith on InformationWeek.com

Ditch The IT Buffet Line In 2011
by Jonathan Feldman on InformationWeek.com

Getting Ready for Data Warehousing
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

National Averages for 45 IT Jobs
by James Maguire on Datamation.com

Geekiest Decorations for Your Office
by Amy-Mae Elliot on Mashable.com

Dysfunctions of a Business Intelligence Team
by Lorna Rickard on BeyeNETWORK.com

10 Epic Gadget Failures on 2010
by Wired Product Review on Wired.com

2010: The Year the Internet Went to War
by David Kravets on Wired.com

Cloud Storage Appropriate Data
by George Crump on InformationWeek.com

A 2010 Holiday Card to the Industry
by Bob Lewis on InfoWorld.com

Putting Green Jobs On Ice
by Paul McDougall on InformationWeek.com

What Hiring Managers Look for in IT Pros
by Jim Sloan on Datamation.com

Public and Private Hybrid Clouds
by David Strom on Datamation.com

Customer Lifetime Value and Data Management
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Customer Tools & Techniques Evolve
by Leslie Arment on BeyeNETWORK.com

Mobile Ends Year with a Whimper
by Fritz Nelson on InformationWeek.com

Grinch of Mobile Technology
by Galen Gruman on InfoWorld.com

Get Rid Of Old Desktops; Do Some Good
by Lorna Garey on InformationWeek.com

U.S. Tech Lead is at Risk
by Patrick Thibodeau on InfoWorld.com

Tablets Expected to Clobber PC Sales in 2011
by Sharon Gaudin on InfoWorld.com

Facebook Becoming Ultimate CRM System
by Jim Rapoza on InformationWeek.com

Tech Troubles from Ghosts of Holidays Past
by Anonymous on InfoWorld.com

The Unemployable US Tech Professional
by Staff on Datamation.com

Business Rules and Data Rules: What's the Difference?
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Dysfunctions of a BI Team: Lack of Accountability
by Maureen Clarry on BeyeNETWORK.com

Can BI Improve the Way We Vote?
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Tips on Creating IT Policies
by Sean Michael Kerner on Datamation.com

Federal Plans To 'Cut' Spending
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Held Hostage by Service Calls
by Christina Tynan-Wood on InfoWorld.com

Surprise! Your Facebook Data is for Sale
by Robert X. Cringely on InfoWorld.com

Business Intelligence for the Masses
by Barney Finucane on BeyeNETWORK.com

Google Calls Out Facebook’s Data Hypocrisy
by Ryan Singel on Wired.com

Data Quality: Anticipating Data Errors
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Activating People to Adopt Data Governance
by Kellie O'Neal on BeyeNETWORK.com

Why Marketing Should Run Its Own Technology
by Scott Brinker on InformationWeek.com

Navigating Cultural Considerations in BI
by Laura Madsen on BeyeNETWORK.com

Rewiring Our Brains for a Digital Future
By Nicole Ferraro on InternetEvolution.com

Are Software Architects Necessary?
by Neil McAllister on InfoWorld.com

Dysfunctions of a Business Intelligence Team
by David Green on BeyeNETWORK.com

BI Mobility and Privacy Issues
by Richard Herschel on BeyeNETWORK.com

Your Data Is Like Week-Old Flounder
by Howard Anderson on InformationWeek.com

Wielding Process Like A Weapon
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

The Rise of Ontology
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Has The Recession Changed Us?
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Why I Would Make a Perfect Alien Liaison
by Lore Sjoberg on Wired.com

Rainy Days and Mondays Get Me Down
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Business Context for Agile BI
by Jim Gallo on BeyeNETWORK.com

When the Finance Chief Flouts His Own Rules
by John McGreavy on InformationWeek.com

Who Doesn’t Need a Data Warehouse?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Analytics Moving from Descriptive to Predictive
by John Myers on BeyeNETWORK.com

Culture Is Critical, So Work At It
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

CEOs Who Don't Bleed Green Must Go
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

Managing Engineers vs. Managing Support Staff
by Scott Allen Miller on Datamation.com

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet
by C. Anderson & M.Wolff on Wired.com

Who Is Your Customer?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Why Gut Feel is Just Not Enough
by Sangeeth Kumar on BeyeNETWORK.com

Why Some People 'Dread' Collaboration
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Text is Text is Text: Not
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Upgrading a Boomer Dad
by Tony Sims on Wired.com

Properly Analyze the Value of the Cloud
by Staff on Internet.com

Lack of Project Planning Can Limit Performance Management Success
by Craig Schiff on BeyeNETWORK.com

Dysfunctions of a Business Intelligence Team
by James Wood on BeyeNETWORK.com

Brilliant Plans to Rescue Dying Industries

by Lore Sjöberg on Wired.com

10 Steps to Go From Agile to Ultra Lean
by Alex Genadinik on DevX.com

Broadband Expansion Unimportant, Not Government Priority
by D.H. Cass on ITChannelPlanet.com

Computer History Museum Tour (Gallery)

Is the SDLC Relevant to Data-Centric Projects?
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Leveraging BI in the Transportation Industry: Mitigating the Maintenance Monster
by James Langley on BeyeNETWORK.com

Where’s the Future? Will Ferrell’s Tour of Tech That Never Took
by Wired Magazine on Wired.com

Taxonomies and Data Models
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Computed Attributes, Entity Resolution and Connectivity Hierarchies
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Time to End the 'Disposable Geek' Mentality
by Neil McAllister on InfoWorld.com

Where is Business Intelligence?
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Perfecting The E-Health Record
by John D. Halamka on InformationWeek.com

Lurking Legal Gotchas and How to Avoid Them
by Peter S. Vogel on InfoWorld.com

Soft Financial Discipline of Federal IT
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

The Project Management Predicament
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

The Art Of Being A Medical CIO
by Anthony Guerra on InformationWeek.com

Dysfunctional Business Intelligence Teams
by Maureen Clarry on BeyeNETWORK.com

The Soft Financial Discipline Of Federal IT
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

Is Everyone An IT Worker Now?
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Taking Inventory of the Unstructured World
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Data Governance and Data Architecture
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

New Approaches To Government IT
by Henschen, Wilson, ... others on InformationWeek.com

Who is Building Systems Today?
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Defining Advanced Analytics
by Richard Hackathorn on BeyeNETWORK.com

The IT/Telephony Divide
by Savio Rodriguez on InfoWorld.com

Open Government and Business Intelligence
by Dr. Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Our Technology Is Taking Over
by Howard Anderson on InformationWeek.com

10 Reasons CIOs Will Get Fired This Year
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

Why Venn Diagrams Don't Work for Data
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

What is Business Intelligence?
by Richard Herschel on BeyeNETWORK.com

A Matter of When and How Rather than If
by Jean-Michel Franco on BeyeNETWORK.com

Establishing and Sustaining Statistical Quality Control to Information Production Processes
by Larry English on BeyeNETWORK.com

Managing Data Quality in the Face of Organizational Change
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Accelerating Business Performance
by Oliver Marks, Sameer Patel on InformationWeek.com

Ways to Sabotage Predictive Analytics Projects
by Eric King, Thomas Rathburn on BeyeNETWORK.com

Advanced Analytics / BI: Term Abuse?
by Colin White, Claudia Imhoff on BeyeNETWORK.com

Accelerating Business Performance
by Oliver Marks, Sameer Patel on InformationWeek.com

Getting It Right
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Managing Data Quality in the Face of Organizational Change
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Our Maturing View Of Cloud Computing
by Art Wittmann on InformationWeek.com

Three Types of Data Models
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Technical Planning for Warehouse Migration
by Binayak Dutta on BeyeNETWORK.com

Definitions in Information Management
by Malcolm Chisholm on BeyeNETWORK.com

Master Data Management Drivers and the Reliance on Data Governance
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Information Architects and Technicians

by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Managing Enterprise Data in a Time of Change
by William McKnight on BeyeNETWORK.com

Managing Enterprise Data in a Time of Change
by William McKnight on BeyeNETWORK.com

Sustainability in the Federal Government
by Ramon Barquin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Sneaking Around IT to Get to the cloud
by David Linthicum on InfoWorld.com

The Eternal Data Warehouse
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

Are IT Shops Back To Business As Usual?
by Rob Preston on InformationWeek.com

IT Jobs Claw Back From Crushing Recession
by Chris Murphy on InformationWeek.com

Good Reading: Analytics at Work
by Richard Herschel on BeyeNETWORK.com

Business Intelligence 2.0: Are We There Yet?
by Greg Nelson on BeyeNETWORK.com

Microsoft Pushes BI For The Masses
by Bob Evans on InformationWeek.com

Cleaning Structured Transaction-Based Data
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

FCC Broadband Plan All Over The Map
by Rob Preston in InformationWeek.com

From BI to EIA
by Barry Devlin on TechnologyTransfer.eu

Application Contexts for Data Profiling
by David Loshin on BeyeNETWORK.com

Partnerships Don’t Work – Or Do They?
by Bob Barker on BeyeNETWORK.com

Breaking Into Health IT Isn't Easy
by Anthony Guerra on InformationWeek.com

Data Warehousing 101
by Dan Power on BeyeNETWORK.com

Sales and Marketing Analytics: Lead Scoring
by Larry Goldman on BeyeNETWORK.com

Internet Access a Fundamental Right
by Nicole Ferraro on InformationWeek.com

An IT Progression
by Bill Inmon on BeyeNETWORK.com

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
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