<p>This e-guide features editorial articles with insight from IT industry consultants and technology professionals on the importance of data quality as well as advice for ensuring a successful program.</p> 

If you're a small or mid-sized business thinking about virtualization, particularly in the world of Microsoft, it makes sense to upgrade your database servers as well. This article explains why to upgrade and provides several examples of companies that have successfully made the move. 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

The security of SQL Server database servers has become a top priority for database administrators. This article examines best practices that can be employed to secure Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases. It provides an overview of the security model in SQL Server 2000 and discusses best practices you can employ to secure yours. 

Master data management (MDM) tools are on the rise as more companies look toward ways to solve all their data needs through one system. This expert e-guide from our editorial team features two articles with exceptional insight on what vendors and trends are prevailing in the current MDM market. 

Read this paper featuring Forrester research now and learn about the total economic impact and potential ROI that enterprises are realizing by deploying IBM Netezza DW appliance with data analytics. By taking some time to digest this resource, you will know whether a similar installation within your company will have a similar financial effect. 

This webcast shows the features of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence for report authors, detailing how the author can create, manage and analyze a professional report easily accessible by any manager on or off the network. Discover how to use the interactive dashboards, create color-coded charts, integrate external data with platform data and more. 

This e-guide provides two articles from our award-winning editorial team on how to overcome data governance program issues and best practices for applying on-going data governance tactics. 

With Microsoft SQL Server 2008, small and mid-sized businesses have a variety of options for creating state-ofthe art strategies for ensuring high availability and disaster recovery for their databases. This article explains why upgrading to SQL Server 2008 may help IT sleep better at night. 

The era of capture is in full stride as organizations are capitalizing on today's innovative capture technologies to reduce costs, eliminate paper-based functions and comply with regulatory requirements. But where do you stand on this capture continuum? This paper, outlining the five phases of capture, can help you decide where you need to be. 

The Cincinnati Zoo is a shining example of how analytics and business intelligence (BI) can be used to derive valuable insight on your customers and turn it into smarter and better decisions. This case study shows how the zoo capitalized on a BI and analytics platform to increase revenue across all facets of its operation. 

Legacy enterprise content management (ECM) systems are no longer functionally viable, meaning it's time to adopt a new solution. Read this paper and learn about a modern, innovative ECM solution that seamlessly integrates advanced case management and compliance capabilities to address today's business, reduce risk and costs and increase revenue.