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Navigating Information Management: How Strategic Information Management Can Enable High Performance by Accenture
Information management is the discipline of being able to accommodate increasing levels of flexibility, access to information and...
Seeing the Big Picture: A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT by SAP America Inc
to making important decisions on the basis of inadequate information. This whitepaper will discuss what information visibility can do for your organization as well as the three critical strategic...
Why Records Management is important by Hewlett-Packard Company
you to think about how you create, process, capture, and manage information. This requires a review of your business activities from an information-centric point of view, which in itself can highlight...
Making Business Relevant Information Instantly Available to More Users by SAP BusinessObjects
to quickly discover, collect, analyze, and share relevant information and they need to be able to answer their own questions as they have them. Read this quick report to learn more about a solution that...
SAP Data Archiving: The First Step toward Managing the Information Lifecycle: Best Practices for SAP ILM to Improve Performance, Compliance and Cost by Dolphin Corporation
Where data archiving is about performance, Information Lifecycle Management is about compliance. The distinction isn't a break with the past - it's an evolution.

Data archiving strategies...
Enterprise Information Management by SAP America Inc
binding those repositories together into one effective information management environment. This white paper will discuss metadata management, master data management, data quality, and data...
ESG: Building a Comprehensive Information Retention Strategy with HP by Hewlett-Packard Company
in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how HP is fully capable of supporting customers' information...
E-Discovery: Thriving in the Information Explosion and Recent Economic Times by Hewlett-Packard Company
how to not only survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them. How quickly times have changed. The recent economic downturn and government actions are raising...
Webcast and Solution Demo - Data on the Edge: Protecting Your Business Information with Lumension Data Protection by Lumension
loss risk. In today's borderless enterprise, sensitive information is more at risk than ever before from both external and internal threats. Financially motivated criminal organizations are...
Enterprise Information Management: In Support of Operational, Analytic, and Governance Initiatives by SAP BusinessObjects
There's a trend toward enterprise information management (EIM), a practice that holistically coordinates teams and integrates tools, rather than having data and other...
Monitoring Trading Partner Agreements - Using Business Intelligence to Enhance BAM Activities by Information Builders
BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes. As IT organizations move steadily towards automated operations and straight-through...
Structuring the Haystack - Business Intelligence and Enterprise Search Solutions by Information Builders
Institute recently estimated that 80 percent of information available in an average enterprise is unstructured and unavailable from any standard database management system. What can you do...
Business Analytics for the CIO by SAS Institute Inc.
Analytics Framework maximizes the value of technology and information assets - enabling organizations to address critical business issues right... Organizations today are dealing with increasingly...
Ensuring Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Security Within U.S. Government Agencies by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
Safeguarding personally identifiable information (PII) and remaining in compliance with government regulations is a difficult challenge made easier with database tools from...
SAP Solutions for SMBs: Making Better Decisions by Gaining Reliable Information from Integrated IT Systems by SAP America Inc
Gain access to accurate information and visibility across your small to mid-sized company from efficient integrated IT systems - and use that information to make...
Reaping The Benefits of Next Generation Dashboards by SAP America Inc
BI) continues to grow as executives demand critical information to seize opportunities faster than competitors and to address potential problems in the making. But increasingly, it is not just C...
Cisco IT GRC Security Assessment Service by Cisco Systems, Inc.
and compliance by aligning business and technology information protection strategies. The challenge of security in an information centric society is increasing rather than diminishing...
Stop Buying Storage - Part 3: Controlling Email and File Server Growth and Costs with Intelligent Archiving by Symantec Corporation
can sometime be overwhelming with a constant barrage of information growth. This webcast will discuss how to control email growth, manage files based on corporate policy, optimize storage capacity...
Using the Actuate Reporting and Analysis Platform for Customer Self-Service Applications by Actuate
to create, maintain and deliver the structured account information required by today's most demanding Customer Self-Service and Online Channel applications. The Actuate® Enterprise Reporting...
How to Make Fast, Reliable Decisions Based on Consolidated Information Encompassing All Your Data by Oracle Corporation
is by simplifying the extraction of specific, actionable information from large volumes of data. This paper will argue that the key to enabling midsize organizations to make even better business...
The Business Benefits of Xenos Enterprise Server™ by Xenos Group Inc.
It resolves the challenge of rationalizing business information architecture and flow by Streamlining Enterprise Information Supply Chains™. Xenos Enterprise Server provides a robust...
Six Mistakes Companies Are Making Today and How You Can Avoid Them by SAP BusinessObjects
Organizations need technology that can unlock the value of information. Information can drive new insights to help transform and significantly improve the business, especially critical in an uncertain economy...
Unified Information Intelligence: Gain Active Intelligence from Content and Data by Attivio, Inc.
This paper explores Unified Information Access technology and solutions and benefits for businesses and users. It offers solution examples: case studies meant to...
Get the Facts on Information Availability: Essential Data Protection, Recovery and Resiliency for Banks by Vision Solutions
The power of an information availability solution lies in its ability to transform any nonproductive, non-profitable downtime into the optimum level of...
SQL Server Resource Center
The short course on how SQL Server really works
we start diving into real-world tasks, however, a little bit of background information will be helpful. So how does SQL Server work? Believe it or not, understanding this... More...
Jun 10, 2009
Understanding transparent data encryption in SQL Server 2008
period. Consult Microsoft's page on understanding TDE for more information on what these limitations are.

Replication is "TDE unaware", and replicated data will... More...
Jun 9, 2009
Working with sparse columns in SQL Server 2008
table:

USE AdventureWorks2008
GO
IF EXISTS (SELECT table_name
FROM information_schema.tables
WHERE table_name = 'Products')
DROP TABLE Products
GO
CREATE TABLE... More...
Jun 2, 2009
Determining the source of full transaction logs in SQL Server

A full transaction log is a sporadic, yet common problem for SQL Server DBAs. It can cause a transaction to be terminated prematurely... More...

May 27, 2009
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Minding the data and databases by Steve Lemme, Contributor
As business reliance upon the availability and accessibility of information grows, so does the need for those specifically skilled in data design delivery, maintenance and its protection. As businesses... More...
Jul 20, 2006
Best practices for improved database management by Steve Lemme, Contributor
all of which rely on databases for the storage and exchange of information. Routinely verifying database management practices helps uncover rogue changes, security problems and even helps locate... More...
Jul 14, 2006