Welcome to the Information Value Edition of the Bill Inmon Newsletter featuring David Loshin, a recognized expert, author and speaker on information quality and business intelligence. In addition to my article that continues my series on metadata, this issue features an article from David that discusses product data and explains why it is emerging as one of the most critical data categories for master data management.
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Metadata, Part 5
by Bill Inmon
For a variety of good reasons, there is unlikely to be much uniformity in the future of metadata.
The Rising Importance of Product Data
by David Loshin
It would be idiotic to think that “customer” data is not one of, if not the most significant candidate for “mastering,” but that does not mean that other conceptual data sets should be ignored at its expense.
Business Intelligence: The Right Fit = The Right Choice
April 19 at 2 p.m. ET
This Web seminar will focus on the top “Magic Quadrant” business intelligence (BI) platforms and vendors and explain how to select the BI platform that will best address your needs. Colin White will discuss key milestones in BI as he sets the stage for the discussion.
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Are Exabytes/Petabytes for Real?
May 3 at 2 p.m. ET
Some trends can be ignored, but you certainly can’t ignore the trend of growing data volumes. Are you prepared to deal with this growth? Join Richard Winter as he outlines data warehouse growth trends and what the future holds.
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Data Profiling/Quality Suite and PayAsYouGoDataQuality.com
May 8 at 1 p.m. ET
Join David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity to discover predictive data management – the desktop and Web-based, pay-as-you-go low-cost solution. Now all the data profiling/quality and compliance technology you need is just $5,000.
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