Three Ways IT Can Fix Data Quality

Finding us in your spam mailbox? Please add us to your address book! Trouble viewing this email? View in Browser  Manage my subscriptions Integrating the Enterprise September 29, 2011 Three Ways IT Can Fix Data Quality, Even if Business Users Won't Middleware expert Hollis Tibbetts of Artemis Ventures estimates fraud or inaccurate billing costs the U.S. health care industry $314 billion each year. Tibbetts outlines three best practices for improving data quality within IT. This isn't just a health care integration issue, of course. Lots of organization would do well to introduce data quality into these three key processes. Read more > Managing & Governing Business Software Delivery Watch this webcast and discover how to speed the delivery of high quality applications to your physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Watch it now > Blogs Loraine Lawson Integration Taking Up the Social Media Data Mantle Mike Vizard IT Unmasked Diversity Comes to Data Management Susan Hall Charting Your IT Career Better Ways to 'Sell' Your IT Projects The Quest for Mobile Optimization   Learn to overcome the challenges of delivering an optimized client experience, from WANs to mobile networks. Download now > How to Sell Senior Management on a Data Warehouse Investment The typical ROI-based business case will not work well for selling a data warehousing initiative to upper management. While there may be some long-term savings that can be quantified, they will almost certainly be outweighed by costs. Moving, Integrating and Using Data from Hadoop Hadoop is not an island: You'll still need to move and process data, and in many cases, you'll do that in a relational database, explains Pentaho CEO Richard Daley. In this Q&A, Daley explains what's unique about using ETL with Hadoop and other Big Data solutions, as well as briefing IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson on the newest offerings from Pentaho, which offers both business intelligence and data integration tools. Lack of Integration Holding Back Social CRM CRM certainly doesn't feel very social if companies have to keep asking their customers to repeat the same basic information over and over. But that's what customers have to do if companies haven't yet managed to integrate their customer service channels. Latest White Papers Poor Performance in the Cloud — How NOT to Lose $1M This Year Application Integration: Why NOT to Buy Into the SOA Stack Retaining eContent: A Proactive Approach Leveraging Desktop Virtualization as a Security Layer: Top 10 Reasons Featured White Papers Voice Transformation: Giving Business Something to Talk About Read this industry report and learn how UC can accelerate cycle times, help shrink the order-to-revenue gap and strengthen customer relationships. •  How to Tame the PC Beast with Desktop Virtualization •  ITIL & Cloud Computing: A Symbiotic Relationship •  Stormy Weather Ahead: The Challenges of Cloud Area Network Ops "But, honestly, for all my ranting about IT/business alignment, I can see why IT gives up. If a health care employee can't understand why using a copy of the card is a more reliable source than a handwritten form ... well, why bother?" Excerpt from Loraine Lawson Integration Premium Tools Cloud Computing Foundation Certification Kit Cloud computing is a topic you need to be well versed at iif you want your IT management career to advance. This downloadable resource will step you through the services available, deployment models and security risks associated with Cloud Computing. Use this 185 page eBook and access to a unique eLearning experience to grow your career. •  The Complete IT Policy Kit •  The Strategic IT Planning Bundle •  The ITIL V3 Foundation Certification Kit IT Marketplace This e-mail is sent by: NarrowCast Group, LLC, 10400 Linn Station Road, Suite 100, Louisville, KY 40223 Copyright ©2003-2011 NarrowCast Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved. E-mail Reports Sign up for these additional e-mail reports to get the best return on your company's technology and talent: •  Aligning IT & Business Goals    •  Optimizing Infrastructure    •  Integrating the Enterprise    •  Maximizing IT Investments    •  Business Tools & Templates •  IT Careers •  Leveraging Enterprise Software •  Managing Compliance Standards •  Mobile and Telecom •  Fortifying Network Security •  CTO Edge Update •  Daily Edge Privacy Policy     Manage Subscriptions     Unsubscribe     Contact Us     How to Advertise