Barry Briggs is Microsoft's key IT Architect and CTO.  He has particular insight into MDM on an enterprise scale, and will share his thoughts during his keynote, "Master Data Management at Microsoft" at TDWI's World Conference in New Orleans in November.  Barry gives us a preview of his presentation.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    The revamped Metadata Management XI could be a boon to bilateral integration between SAP and Business Objects environments.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 24, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Success or failure in meeting operational performance goals is increasingly dependent on how a business identifies, defines, tracks, and acts upon operational key performance indicators.
                    
			            - By David  Hatch
- September 24, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Lyza runs completely on the desktop, so there's no administration and minimal IT overhead. The result, officials claim, is an empowered user class.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 24, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Netezza's new geospatial facility promises to let customers roll out location-aware applications at a "fraction of the cost" of general-purpose RDBMS
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 17, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Infobright shipped its BrightHouse open source data warehouse and announced an investment from Sun Microsystems
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
- September 17, 2008
 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Lean times may drive business and IT together for new speed and new risk.
                    
			            - By Ted  Cuzzillo
- September 17, 2008