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5 Classes of Cloud Computing
11.18.2008

David Linthicum

The best way to look at cloud computing is to learn how to classify the clouds. Right now I see at least five classifications: storage-as-a-service, database-as-a-service, applications-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, integration-as-a-service, and security-as-a-service. Each category has its own path to maturation, with applications-as-a-service (or SaaS), leading the way. The next push will be...

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Doug Henschen

'Soul of the Web' At Stake
11.17.2008
I'm here at Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA, where weighty topics including "the most exciting development environment ever" and "a battle for the soul of the Internet" are being debated. The development environment being discussed, of course, is the mashup... The battle is forming between Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight, on the one hand, and OpenAjax on the other.

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Open Source BI: Eclipse BIRT and Talend
11.17.2008

Seth Grimes

Information Week has published my article on open source business intelligence (OSBI), Open Source BI Still Fighting For Its Share, a title that applies both to the BI software market and to IW column inches. I'll share with readers material I wrote, cut by IW's editors, on open-source data-integration vendor Talend and on Eclipse BIRT, Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools.

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Curt Monash

Hot Topics in High-Performance Analytics
11.17.2008
For the past few months, I've collected a lot of data points to the effect that high-performance analytics — i.e., beyond straightforward query — is becoming increasingly important. And I've written about some of these topics, including MapReduce, geospatial analytic capabilities and memory-centric analytics among a few others...

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EVENTS
• Kimball University: Dimensional Modeling In Depth
Washington D.C. (Arlington, VA)
September 30-October 3, 2008

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RESOURCE LINKS

Lead Generation
Eloqua's lead and demand generation software develops better leads.

Document Management System
Document management integrated in Windows, Office, Outlook, SharePoint

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT INSIGHT

The Open Source Enterprise: Its Time Has Come
November 15, 2008
by Charles Babcock
The problems that made open source code impractical for many businesses are falling away. Add in the 'cheaper' factor, and this should get interesting.

Cool BI: Rating the Latest Innovations
November 10, 2008
by Cindi Howson
Rich, interactive reporting interfaces, in-memory analytics and social networking may be cool, but how much value do they add to business intelligence. This article examines the maturity, value and mainstream appeal of leading innovations.

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INFO MANAGEMENT NEWS & ANALYSIS

Making the Business Case for Mashups
Once a boutique pursuit for geeks, mashups are entering the enterprise application development mainstream.

Adobe To Unify Developer Apps With Flash Platform
Adobe is rolling out several new and updated products to fend off Microsoft's Silverlight, not to mention the growing use of open source technologies like HTML, CSS, and Ajax.

Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases
Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy.

IBM CEO Touts Smart Systems, Efficient Infrastructure
Supply chain inefficiencies cost the consumer products and retail industries an estimated $40 billion annually, or 3.5% percent of sales, IBM's Sam Palmisano pointed out.

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WHITE PAPERS

•ITIL V3: Making Business Services Serve the Business

•Enterprise Findability Without the Complexity

•BSM: What It Is and Why You Should Care

•Making It Easy to Report on Your Application’s Data

•Quick Migration with Hyper-V

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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TOPICS

The Information Management channel offers thought leadership from experts including Rajan Chandras, Mark Madsen, Alan Pelz-Sharpe and The Kimball Group. You'll also find news coverage, trend analysis, Q&A interviews and case studies on the following topics:

Database Servers and Management

Data Integration

Data Quality, Cleansing and Master Data Management

Data Warehousing

Enterprise Content Management and Portals

Privacy & Security

Search and Information Retrieval

Taxonomy, Categorization and Classification

Unstructured Data Management & Text Mining

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