Business strategy
Business Intelligence Takes Center Stage
Business intelligence is the topic of this part of an article series discussing IT architecture and what the future holds.
Read MoreCan You Distinguish BI Information From Data?
No one is suffering from the lack of data. It is everywhere, flooding in our businesses, our homes, and our minds. How do we discern information that is intelligent and useful? For years businesses have been using Business Intelligence technologies for gathering and analyzing data as a key milestone in searching for better business decisions.
Read MoreChanging Ownership Patterns in the Information Industry
What is the Information Industry?
Read MoreHiring for Database Production
How do you find good people to hire? What do you look for in new employees? What kinds of interview questions do you ask them?
Read MoreInhouse Database Marketing
by Marjorie M.K. Hlava Marketing an inhouse file is similar to marketing any database. Whether the file is commercial or inhouse, there are two main parts to the marketing. First is marketing the idea of a database to upper management. Second is marketing the completed file to raise revenue for maintaining the database. The first…
Read MoreSaving Time and Money with a Rule Based Approach to Automatic Indexing
Getting a Higher Return on Your Investment by Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. There are two major types of automatic categorization systems. These two types of systems are known by many different names. However, the information science theory behind them boils down to two major schools of thought: rule based and statistics based.…
Read MoreAutomatic Indexing: How Two Approaches Compare
Understanding “Rule Based” vs. “Statistics Based” Indexing Systems by Marjorie M.K. Hlava reprinted from Information Outlook with permission It’s never been more fascinating—or more challenging—to be an information professional. Surveys show that corporate librarians have more information to manage, and less staff to help manage it, than ever before. Not only is the universe of…
Read MoreThe Strategic Business Value of a Well-Constructed Taxonomy
By Bert Carelli An organization’s website is today the primary strategic tool not only for delivering information and promoting its scholarly mission, but also for developing and maintaining relationships with and among its members and the larger scholarly community. A unified semantic strategy is the best way of bringing together all elements of that mission…
Read MoreMaster Data Management and Taxonomies
November 22, 2010 – At the recent Data Content conference in Philadelphia, put on by InfoCommerce Group, Managing Director Scott Taylor gave a presentation on the challenges and opportunities of Master Data Management (MDM). MDM is usually defined as data management that addresses the need to avoid maintaining multiple versions of singular entities within content stores. In practical…
Read MoreAgility Seems to be the Word of the Week
TM Forum’s Management World remained focused on operations this year. Even if their expansion into “specialist streams” might have initially confused some people into thinking TM Forum is “straying” from its core competency.
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