The IBM Information Management portfolio offers a complete set of solutions designed to help you not only manage your data, but also master it. Read on to learn more about: Data management, information integration, data warehousing and more. 

Missed opportunities and lost revenue might be the least of your worries. In some cases, poor practices can lead to lawsuits, fines and even the failure of the business itself. The purpose of this e-guide is to help you grasp the measures that can keep your organization on track to meet objectives and stay in line with regulations. 

This brief white paper outlines information lifecycle management (ILM), a set of strategies for managing the growth, storage and retrieval of information over its useful life. Its goal is to ensure that frequently accessed data is returned as fast as possible, while controlling storage costs. 

Organizations are often turning to Master Data Management as a key enabler in improving the timeliness, quality and reliability of BI with the ultimate goal of improving business performance. This survey report presents recommendations on the "do and don't" of MDM as well as some findings on the use of open source and manual coding in MDM projects. 

Through complete end-to-end insight into the factors that impact company performance, you can significantly reduce costs, enhance profitability, increase customer satisfaction and gain competitive advantage. 

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. 

You can consolidate all data warehousing and analytical processing using Oracle Exadata. With its integrated analytics, there are no more slow data loads and everything is run off your data warehouse, no matter how much data you have. Watch this video and learn how to get up-to-date information faster while managing all of it in one place. 

IBM InfoSphere Information Server delivers the functions required to integrate, validate, enrich and deliver trusted information for your key business initiatives. 

Storing files centrally at HQ causes slow file access performance for branch office users. Synchronized (mirrored) file servers with version conflict control is an ideal solution to enable fast LAN speed file access for all employees. Try out this free trial software to learn more about your data solutions. 

This brief e-guide explores the notion that data quality issues are worse in real-time data integration applications versus batch-oriented techniques. In the form of two articles, this resource serves up options for real-time integration, touches on the concerns associated with it and outlines the proper steps required to address data quality. 

This HP/Microsoft white paper explains how their fast track data warehouse architecture can help you make the decision for hardware selection and configuration. HP and Microsoft working collaboratively can help you obtain the information to successfully integrate your data warehouse. 

This brief white paper outlines the different capabilities and properties of MySQL and Oracle GoldenGate, including real-time data warehousing, real-time reporting, OLTP query offloading and more.