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		My article, Consolidating, Accessing and Analyzing Unstructured Data, is critically important for all enterprises. I maintain that unstructured data is extremely valuable for optimizing and analyzing business processes with business intelligence.
		In my article, Master Data Management: The Importance of Codes, I discuss their value for enterprise communications. After offering a rather simple example of a code, I explain the trouble with "code overloading." Fortunately, there are solutions to this problem.

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New Articles

Consolidating, Accessing and Analyzing Unstructured Data
by Colin White
Although a great deal of business information is locked away as unstructured data, this data is valuable for optimizing and analyzing business processes.

Master Data Management: The Importance of Codes
by David Loshin
While codes are valuable for various communications, we must find solutions for code overloading.

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Application Usage Management: Mission Critical
January 19th, 2005 at 2:00 pm EDT
The data warehouse is now a production system critical to the enterprise - simply monitoring your application usage isn’t enough. Join Bill Inmon to discuss why it is crucial to give your business and IT a centralized view of who is accessing what information – when, where and how.
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Integrating Information for Successful Master Data Management
Companies are seeking a single view of critical information to be shared across the enterprise. Join us to discuss the case for MDM, maintaining the integrity of master data in an operational setting and the functional components that make successful master data integration a reality.
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