"It's information management Jim, but not as we know it"

Could these be the words of Chief (data) Engineer Scotty on board the Starship Enterprise? Enterprise information asset management that is! He'd be an avid reader of this channel if it made it out into Federation space :)

Welcome to the Christopher Bradley Information Asset Management Channel for the BeyeNETWORK. This channel is dedicated to end-to-end process of managing your information as a real asset. These processes (and the associated technologies) include:

-Asset discovery

-Information quality and profiling

-Data transformation and movement

-Information and process modelling

-Information and metadata repositories

-Information analytics and

-Governance

As an information professional have you ever heard any of these when discussing information management?

"It gets in the way".

"I don't need to do modelling, the package has it all".

If so, this channel is for you because that's the real world we live in and the areas I'll be discussing every month.

I hope you can join me!

I welcome your comments, questions and any suggestions you may have. Please e-mail them to me at chris.bradley@ipl.com

Welcome to the Malcolm Chisholm Expert Channel on Enterprise Information Management Channel for the BeyeNETWORK.

This channel is dedicated to covering the new generation of organizational units tasked to manage the information assets of enterprises. Each month I will be examining one aspect of what it takes to make these units successful in a business environment that is becoming ever more reliant on data.

I welcome your comments and questions and any suggestions you may have. Please e-mail them to me at mchisholm@refdataportal.com.

Welcome to the Ronald Damhof channel for the BeyeNETWORK. This channel is all about Decision Support and Data Management. Most people will translate these subjects into Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, but in my opinion that just won't cut these days.

Two aspects concerning Decision Support and Data Management can be considered an important theme throughout this channel; Rigor and Relevance and the difficult balance between these two. On the one hand we need more rigor, more depth, more theory building, more empirical proof on important issues and solutions that are written down or are even implemented. On the other hand we need also relevance; spending resources of any kind to issues or solutions nobody needs is just 'blowing smoke' and creates a mish-mash of fuzzy thinking and incomprehensible jargon (J.Dearden-1980-MIS is a Mirage (Harvard Business Review).

Researches and practitioners are the ones that hold in their hands the responsibility of bringing rigor and relevance to the table and thus contribute to the body of knowledge regarding Decision Support and Data Management.

This channel is an attempt to function as a voice for anyone that wants to listen or contribute to the above. Please feel free to share your ideas, tips, articles, whitepapers or whatever. My contact details are:

Mobile: +31 6 269 671 84
Skype: ronald.damhof
email: ronald.damhof@prudenza.nl
Web: http://www.prudenza.nl
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ronalddamhof
Blog: http://www.b-eye-network.com/blogs/damhof/
http://prudenza.typepad.com/dwh/
Twitter: RonaldDamhof

Welcome to my expert channel on UK trends in business intelligence (BI), UK case studies and my thoughts on business intelligence and business integration. I will host UK surveys to track what is happening on the ground here in the UK and will tap into Europe on occasion to see what is happening in other European Union countries and to gauge the impact of EU regulations on UK companies with BI systems.

I plan to cover most areas of business intelligence including enterprise data management, master data, data integration and data quality, BI tools and services, and performance management. I also want to look at UK and European BI vendors as well U.S. ones. With respect to business integration, I will also look at how combining service-oriented architectures (SOA) and BI Web services is allowing business intelligence to be integrated into mainstream operational business processes. See how BI Web services and event-driven automated analysis are changing the role of BI systems into one where BI is helping operations personnel contribute to business performance. We will look at BI integration with applications, business processes, collaboration and portals to show how BI in a SOA is moving us from business intelligence to intelligent business.

This channel is devoted to master data management (MDM). This is where an organization wishes to manage its shared data (such as customer, product or location data) better. It includes organizational elements such as data governance, as well as technologies, such as MDM platforms and data quality tools. If you have one and only one source of data in your organization, and have complete confidence in its accuracy, completeness and timelines then congratulations - that is one unusual place that you work, but you can safely not bother with this channel. Otherwise, you might learn something.

I welcome your comments and questions and any suggestions you may have. Please e-mail them to me at andy.hayler@informationdifference.com

Welcome to my BeyeNETWORK Expert Channel! This channel on BeyeNETWORK.com is dedicated to providing a common ground for: 1) Data warehouse appliances and their strengths, deployment techniques, best practices, and methodologies to integrate them into your data warehouses; 2)Data warehouse architectures, the different architectural approaches to building the data warehouse, the solution architecture ecosystem for the data warehouse, the different layers and the architecture decisions across the layers; and 3) finally, the third focus area high performance data warehousing. It encompasses all aspects of a data warehouse solution architecture starting with the hardware and infrastructure layers to the business intelligence user interface layers and everything in between. 

You'll find useful insights, relevant information and constant commentary on the state of the data warehouse and business intelligence industry. I welcome your comments, suggestions or observations at krish@krishkrishnan.net. Your input is what makes this channel better for all of us.

I hope you make it your "go to" channel for practical advice and help for any BI problems, regardless of industry or environment, especially as it relates to data warehouse appliances and high performance data warehousing.

Welcome to the Decision Support Channel for the Business Intelligence Network. This channel focuses on concepts, ideas and emerging issues related to the broad area of computerized decision support for managers, groups and organizations. Each month, the goal is to discuss a topic relevant to using computers and software to improve decision making. The topics will reflect my interests and the comments of readers. Some of my articles will summarize my responses to frequently asked questions.

For the latest news on Decision Support Systems, including business intelligence, data warehousing, model-driven DSS, group DSS, knowledge-driven DSS and web-based DSS, please subscribe to DSS News. DSS News is DSSResources.COM's a bi-weekly newsletter about news, features, and new capabilities within the Decision Support Systems community. Click here to subscribe.

Welcome to my BeyeNETWORK Expert Channel on virtual data warehouse architectures and the data delivery platform.

The last twenty years, the classic data warehouse architecture has served us well. But if we think about the new demands and requirements from our customers, such as real-time data warehousing and increased flexibility, and if we consider new technologies, ranging from data warehouse appliances to mashups, the question we can ask ourselves is whether this is still the best architecture we can come up with. My answer would be "No."

This expert channel will focus on a new architecture called the data delivery platform. The data delivery platform is based on the concept of a virtual data warehouse. This channel will help you understand the data delivery platform, how new technologies make it possible to develop this platform, and the design and architectural principles of the platform.

In a nutshell, the end of the era of the classic data warehouse architecture has come, and like with all other technical solutions and technologies, it is time for a replacement.

As channel expert I will cover technologies, ideas, tools and design principles related to the data delivery platform and virtual data warehouses. I do welcome your questions, comments, ideas and suggestions. Please send them to rick@r20.nl. I am looking forward to lively discussions.

Welcome to my channel for providing you with the latest news and views on business intelligence and business integration. Since these two technology domains cover a wide range of topics, I will focus on areas where I spend most of my time. In the business intelligence arena I will look at enterprise data integration and business performance management. For business integration, I will focus on topics such as portals and content management that help extend business intelligence into the knowledge management environment.