There are many times when it is difficult to appreciate how essentially stupid - and technically primitive - our computing tools are.

Solution Set

Organizations have been neglecting their data integration needs for years, but now the growing adoption of Cloud applications is complicating the situation even more. This set confronts and explains that challenge, then leads organizations...

Job Description

Data Stewards manage data quality issues by identifying problems that users run into and then putting in place mechanisms to address them. They safeguard data both On-Premise and within the Cloud.

We each have a job to do in this world of technology driving economics, and, for the most part, it's head-down and incremental improvements that define our days. But there is another level of dreaming, designing, and engineering that takes...

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Hand-coded point-to-point integration solutions offer little consistency, require constant rework, produce data quality issues, and can actually hinder enterprise growth. Use this research to get a handle on how you can best integrate diverse...

Tool

This tool is pre-built with the essential criteria that should be considered when evaluating RFP responses. Use this tool to put hard numbers behind vendor claims, and keep evaluations objective by scoring RFP responses.

Template/Policy

This template is designed to provide vendors with a consistent set of instructions to ensure an objective comparison of product features; all while you can evaluate ease-of-use from a user and IT perspective.

Tool

Data integration (DI) tools provide a wide array of both business and IT benefits, but they are not for everyone. Use this readiness assessment tool to determine if DI tools are right for the organization.

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Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of eight leading data integration solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy the organization's requirements, before sending out RFPs and scheduling...

Template/Policy

Issuing RFPs is a critical step in your vendor selection process. This RFP template comes populated with important elements you don't want to forget. A detailed RFP saves time in the selection process and ensures that you select a best-fit...

Tool

Info-Tech conducted a market evaluation of nine leading MFP solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy your organization's requirements, before sending out RFPs and scheduling vendor demonstrations.

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The multifunction printer market has seen little innovation; however, progress has been made in mobile and customized service integration. Enterprises should pay attention to these features, as well as to vendor stability in the market.

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The cloud allows IT organizations to be more flexible, scalable and competitive. However, prompt organizational changes in technology, processes and people are required to take full advantage of the value from the cloud.

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Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

Tool

Use this tool to assess whether a SOA implementation can produce value for your organization. The tool will recommend a SOA implementation or an evaluation of a limited middleware adoption.

Tool

Use this tool to find the ideal integration method for each of the organization's integrations.

Note

Middleware tools provide real-time integration and SOA delivers improvements in IT service quality, agility, and costs. Evaluate these technologies for your organization.

Buyers of SOA technology struggle to reconcile their SOA strategy with other programs, such as BPM.

SOA adoption remains half-hearted. Departments hesitate to use SOA services and secretly develop their own versions on the side.

Solution Set

The organization houses a multiplicity of messaging protocols, making each new application integration a nightmare of confused standards, hardcodes, and unnecessary complexity.

Video

This video will give you some insight into what data integration tools can do for you today, as well as what tiers of solutions are available and some caveats when investigating particular solutions.

Tool

The Data Integration Build vs. Buy TCO calculator provides enterprises with a framework for comparing the cost of hand-coding to that of buying a new software package.

Note

Despite the costs and headaches associated with having poor data, most organizations struggle to define and implement a strategy for effectively improving data quality.

Solution Set

This solution set will help you understand the causes of data quality problems and provide strategies to fix the causes of data quality problems, and not just address the symptoms.

Tool

The first step to improving data quality is to conduct an audit of prevalent data quality problems are in the organization. There are five key types of data quality problems, ranging from duplicate data to conflicting data.

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Developing policies and procedures is an important step for improving data quality. IT and business users need to clearly understanding who is accountable for what data. Policies such as refresh cycles and system-of-record are essential for...

Video

Data quality is a significant issue facing many organizations. Despite the costs and headaches associated with having poor data, most organizations struggle to define and implement a strategy for effectively improving data quality.

Template/Policy

Today, the implementation practice for software systems, including email platforms, is relatively easy from the end-user perspective. However, for larger organizations, the migration and systems integration of these applications is not so easy....

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Today, the implementation practice for software systems, including email platforms, is relatively easy from the end-user perspective. However, for larger organizations, the migration and systems integration of these applications is not so easy....

(9-Apr-10) Ethernet is to the world of data networking what low-frequency AC is to electric power distribution: the foundational universal standard for the world’s infrastructure. Yet Ethernet’s original conception and implementation targeted...