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Ediware Client (exe)

Ediware is a B2B integration software. The user can easily setup any EDI or e-commerce structure like EDIFACT, X12, XML, and Ediware will translate any such file into any other format. All formats and translation filters are user configurable. Ediware allows you also to define batch files in order to...

Tags: Format, B-Data, Ediware, EDI, B2B, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

Software downloads 2008-09-09

Additional Resources

Data Mining Primer for the Data Warehouse Professional

Very little has been written to explain the challenges facing IT organizations as they try to make data mining a part of their business intelligence operations. This paper explores data mining from the IT perspective, providing a quick overview of data mining technology, technical challenges and solutions for implementing successful...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Marketing Research, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing

White papers

Data Profiling Using OWB10gR2 and the Data Quality Option

The Data Quality Option enables to convert the raw, staging data that comes into the reporting database into quality information. Using the features in this option, one can gain insight into the data and identify previously unknown data quality problems. Subsequently, it can create data rules and generate mappings to...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Quality Option, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-10-16

Five Steps to More Valuable Enterprise Data

Companies worldwide struggle with inconsistent, inaccurate or unreliable data - and often don't know how to build more useful corporate information. This white paper examines a five-step method for improving your data, using data profiling, data quality, data integration and other methods to find and fix bad data.

Tags: DataFlux Corp., Data, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-03-12

Data Warehouses and Data Marts: A Dynamic View

The data mart is a subset of the data warehouse, or the data warehouse is an outgrowth of the data marts, or there is parallel development, with the data marts guided by the data warehouse data model, and ultimately superseded by the data warehouse, which provides a final answer to...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Data Mart, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2000-01-01

Private Data Safe (Deutsch) (zip)

Private Data Safe guarantees data protection and data safety for data files, folders and program files - including data on removable data carriers and data shared and exchanged with other users. With the help of Data Safe you can protect your most important secure data such as passwords, and access...

Tags: Password, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

Software downloads 2007-11-21

MS Excel Databases - Transferance of Data Macros

I have a Macro that takes Data entered on a "Data Input" type of Spreadsheeet (1) and copies/transfers the data as well as insert a new row for data to be placed to another spreadsheet (2). Some of the fields are formatted in such a way that if the data...

Tags: Data, database, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Ms Excel Database, networking, niveadavis@...

Discussion threads 2004-12-14

Enterprise Data Protection

In today's enterprise, data knows no boundaries. While data is consumed, transferred, and stored, however, it is also susceptible to compromise. The cost of a data breach can reach millions of dollars and permanently damage brand equity as well as customer trust. That's why protecting data in the modern enterprise...

Tags: Data Protection, Enterprise, PGP Corp., Disaster Recovery, Backups, Branding, Data Management, Marketing

White papers 2007-06-01

Data Quality by the Numbers: Best Practices for Managing Business Data

The use of data quality technology for customer data is far more prevalent than the use of the technology for business data. The reason for this imbalance has as much to do with the organizations that are acquiring data quality solutions as it does with data quality technology itself. Many...

Tags: Data Quality, Best Practice, Business Data, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-09-14

Data Ownership and Enterprise Data Management: Is Your Data Under Control? (Part 1)

Issues of data integrity complicate the issue of compliance. Compliance relies on rock-solid data and trusted metrics produced in regulatory reporting. Therefore, data ownership, data quality and formally-managed data is high on the agenda of CFOs and CEOs who are held personally accountable if their company is found to be...

Tags: Enterprise Data Management, Compliance, Data Ownership, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-11-21

Mainframe Data Backup and Disaster Recovery White Paper

The basic requirements for data backup, disaster recovery, and data archiving are not the same, and a sensible management of these processes must be balanced with the costs involved. The concept of data backup includes not only the backing up of data, but also the ability to restore the data...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mainframe, Data Backup, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

White papers 2005-11-01

Gracefully Terminate a DATA Step if the Input Data File Is Not Available

The standard method to read external data into a SAS data set consists of - allocating the data file using a FILENAME statement; and creating a DATA step to read the data using INFILE and INPUT statements. The allocation creates a link between the SAS program and the data file....

Tags: SAS Institute, Allocation

White papers 2006-02-28

Profiling: Calculating Return on Investment for Data Migration and Data Integration Projects

Data profiling is an essential step in the data integration lifecycle. Getting it right from the start can dramatically reduce the time it takes to plan and execute data integration strategies. Before data can be integrated or used in a data warehouse, CRM, ERP or business analytics application, its content,...

Tags: Informatica, ROI, Migration, Data Integration, Informatica Data Explorer

White papers 2007-03-26

Ms Excel Databases

I have a Macro that takes Data entered on a "Data Input" type of Spreadsheeet (1) and copies/transfers the data as well as insert a new row for data to be placed to another spreadsheet (2). Some of the fields are formatted in such a way that if the data...

Tags: database, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, niveadavis@..., windows

Q&A 2004-12-14

Next Generation Data Protection Strategies for Virtualized Data

Compliance, retention, compression, ITIL, encryption; data-driven enterprises must reexamine the way they protect data assets and ensure real time data access.

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Protection, ITIL, It Management, It Services, It service Management

Webcasts

Protect sensitive data everywhere: not just in production

This is lazyness and stupidityIf an outsourced developer would do the same that would be the end of their assignment. Confidential data is confidential data. Test setups are the last place where that data should be available. No developer should ever see that data.There are several solutions for creating test...

Tags: Outsourcing, ari.takanen@...

Discussion threads 2007-07-22

Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003: A Guide for Data Controllers

Data Controllers are those who, either alone or with others, control the contents and use of personal data. Data Controllers can be either legal entities such as companies, Government Departments or voluntary organisations, or they can be individuals such as G.P.'s, pharmacists or sole traders. Data protection is the means...

Tags: Data Protection, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Data Management

White papers 2008-02-11

Data Profiling: Designing the Blueprint for Improved Data Quality

Many business and IT managers face the same problem: the data that serves as the foundation for their business applications (including Customer Relationship Management CRM programs, Enterprise Resource Planning ERP tools, and data warehouses) is inconsistent, inaccurate, and unreliable. Data profiling is the solution to this problem and, as such,...

Tags: Data Quality, SAS Institute, Data Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2005-03-09

The CIO's Guide to Taking Data Asset Metrics to the Boardroom

Data quality and data integration can affect all aspects of an organization. Without consistent, accurate and reliable data, companies cannot respond to trends and meet customer expectations. This white paper explains how reports on data quality initiatives can help executives understand the impact of data quality - and what CIOs...

Tags: Asset, Data Quality, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-10-09

Data Profiling: The Diagnosis for Better Enterprise Information

The very foundation of CRM and ERP systems is the data that drives these implementations. Beginning a data-driven initiative without first understanding the existing, underlying data is like repairing an automobile without first understanding the problems inside the engine. To repair the engine, the mechanic first has to understand the...

Tags: Data Quality, Diagnosis, SAS Institute, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-09-14