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News Highlights

  • How the Federal Government Can Get Ahead of the Impending Data Revolution

    The federal government -- and its BI community -- needs to go real-time. The time to prepare is now. [more]


  • How Cloudera Became a Leader in BI/Hadoop

    Cloudera has never explicitly marketed itself as a BI-centric product, but its distribution for Hadoop has effectively brought a raft of prominent BI players to it. In addition to the Informatica partnership it signed last November, Cloudera has forged agreements with a host of important players. [more]


  • Q&A: Solid Value Proposition a Key to MDM Success

    MDM expert David Loshin explains how -- and why -- to establish a good value proposition, stressing the importance of measuring performance before, during, and after implementation. [more]


  • Gartner and "Good Enough" Data Integration

    According to Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant tally, Informatica's DI leadership position in the DI market is unchanged. At the same time, the dynamics of the market Informatica leads have changed. The DI Powers That Be are under pressure from "good enough" competitors. This gives non-dominant players a golden opportunity to contest the status quo. [more]


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