The Information Supply Chain: Achieving Business Objectives by Enhancing Critical Business Processes - Information Management Magazine Article. Information architecture essentials, Part 2: Managing enterprise information. Information has value It's surprising how much value can be placed on an object as ephemeral as a piece of data.
But information doesn't exist in a vacuum; it's used by every living thing in the context of its surroundings. From a bacterium sensing a chemical gradient to locate food, to a space shuttle astronaut relying on instruments to safely reenter Earth's atmosphere, information is of value only in a particular context to a particular user. InfoSphere Data Lifecycle Management Solutions. Information Governance Today's explosion of digital information requires organizations to analyze new information faster and make timely and well founded decisions.
Information governance addresses that need. It is a holistic approach to managing, improving and leveraging information to increase an organization's confidence in decisions made--within big data and analytics, and within operational business processes. Today, big data is driving changes in information governance, transforming it from a cottage industry to one that is more automated, that requires not only the right policies, skills and processes but also a solid foundation in technology. The latest IBM innovations enable agile governance, with controls that are not too heavy or too light, but appropriate to the data, the use case and the organization.
ECM In Motion. As I mentioned in my last post, last week kicked off the 2009 Regional ECM UserNet Meetings across the country, with Seattle leading the way, and Columbus following this past week.
Next on the list is Chicago, which is this coming week on April 14, and then they carry on from there. Before I get into my thoughts from the event in Seattle, just a reminder to the community, if you have not already registered, go find the one nearest you and SIGN UP! Here's a link to them all, and of course, you'll find this same link in our Bookmarks area of the site, and in Important Bookmarks on the right side of the home page.
Before going further, I should put in a disclaimer that I happen to be president of the Pacific Northwest UserNet here in Seattle, and so my views may be slanted about our event. Channeling a Flood of Data. By Sean Koehl, Intel Technology Evangelist The amount of data generated by humans worldwide is growing at an annual rate of 60% and may reach the staggering number of one zetabyte, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information, according to Intel Fellow Jim Held (citing research data from IDC).
He gave one of the opening talks in Brussels this week at Intel's first Research at Intel Europe event called "Channeling the Data Flood. " The theme of the talk: how can we manage, and more importantly take advantage, of this so-called data deluge? Jim cited some impressive numbers. For home media, even an average user has over 50 gigabytes of photos on their hard drives. So much data will be a challenge for the ICT industry, but Jim emphasized the opportunities to make use of this data and even ways to generate more useful data. The data lifecycle begins with “Generation,” the means to gather and create more data. The final stage of the lifecycle Jim presented was “Apply.” Information architecture essentials, Part 2: Managing enterprise information. Information has value It's surprising how much value can be placed on an object as ephemeral as a piece of data.
But information doesn't exist in a vacuum; it's used by every living thing in the context of its surroundings. From a bacterium sensing a chemical gradient to locate food, to a space shuttle astronaut relying on instruments to safely reenter Earth's atmosphere, information is of value only in a particular context to a particular user. Understand IBM Data Studio Version 2 software packaging. Introduction This article provides you with an overview of the Data Studio family and brief descriptions of the capabilities of each Data Studio product.
The product descriptions help you differentiate between the no-charge capabilities and the additional capabilities that are available for purchase. You can also learn how to download and install the no-charge functionality as well as how to obtain trial versions that include the additional capabilities that are available for purchase. The article does not fully describe and catalog every feature of each product. For more in-depth information, use the links provided within the individual product descriptions and in the Resources section. Hardware Asset Management for IT solutions from IBM Tivoli software. IBM Hardware Asset Management for IT is a comprehensive solution that combines asset purchasing, inventory, financial, maintenance and contract management into one flexible interface.
It tracks and manages the complete life cycle of your IT assets and provides workflows to manage the processes for control, audit and reconciliation of authorized versus deployed assets. This solution helps manage hardware assets by: Prioritizing and organizing contract management activity through alerts and workflow.Reducing the costs of purchase orders by streamlining the IT asset procurement process.Avoiding unnecessary purchases through accurate inventory management.Enabling efficient financial control of hardware assets by reconciling what's been purchased, received, deployed and invoiced.Identifying and removing older IT assets that are costly to maintain.
Products included in this solution Solutions Hardware Asset Management for IT resources. Www.oracle.com/us/026964.pdf.