Taxodiary – Data

Data Governance – Help or Hindrance?

By Melody Smith|June 17th, 2011|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, News|Comments Off on Data Governance – Help or Hindrance?

Data governance seems to be an increasingly popular topic these days. The chatter around it isn’t all good either. It seems most organizations don’t like data governance. They see it as too complicated or requiring too much change, or not in their job description.

Informatica 9.1 Garners Support

By Melody Smith|June 15th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Informatica 9.1 Garners Support

Informatica Corporation has announced overwhelming industry support for Informatica 9.1, the industry’s first unified data integration platform designed to unleash the full business potential of Big Data to empower the data centric-enterprise.

Accessing Your Data is Important

By Melody Smith|June 13th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Accessing Your Data is Important

A consortium of European organizations have united to provide a single view of drug discovery across several data sources with semantic technology.

New Data Integration Arrangement

By Melody Smith|June 7th, 2011|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Data Integration Arrangement

Aggregate Knowledge and Resonate Networks announced they will integrate Resonate’s data and services with the patent-pending AK Platform. The result for advertisers is a scalable and privacy-compliant solution that tracks and reports every known user attribute by campaign to reveal which publishers, attributes, segments, and data providers worked best, and which didn’t. This analysis provides critical information to optimize current campaigns as well as future ones. The data-neutral AK Platform can deal with any kind of data, including taxonomies.

Autonomy’s Latest Purchase Maximizes Data

By Melody Smith|May 27th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Autonomy’s Latest Purchase Maximizes Data

Autonomy plans to purchase certain assets of Iron Mountain Digital which, when combined with Autonomy's operations, has the potential for building a very large data cloud.

Health Care Logistics Chooses Metalogix for SharePoint Migration

By Melody Smith|May 25th, 2011|Access Insights, metadata, News|Comments Off on Health Care Logistics Chooses Metalogix for SharePoint Migration

Health Care Logistics has purchased Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint to migrate from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint 2010. This opposed to using Microsoft tools, which would have taken much longer for the migration.

Data Virtualization Topic of Blog Post

By Melody Smith|May 24th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Virtualization Topic of Blog Post

A new analyst in Enterprise Architecture group at Forrester Research, Brian Hopkins, has launched a new blog titled, “Not Your Grandfather’s Data Warehouse – Big Data and Virtualization Impact your EDW Architecture.” Some great points are made about how two key technologies, Big Data and Data Virtualization, are impacting information architecture strategies. This impact is changing the role of the enterprise data warehouse.

New Alliance in the Data Integration World

By Melody Smith|May 20th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on New Alliance in the Data Integration World

expressor software has announced an alliance with LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc to provide data integration solutions to establish an integrated informatics infrastructure for the laboratory.

New Tool Offers Satellite Mashup Capability

By Melody Smith|May 13th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on New Tool Offers Satellite Mashup Capability

Map Software developer and Interior Department contractor, Esri, has launched a commercial tool that will enable programmers and non-techies alike to manipulate Interior's library of Earth surface images and data captured by satellite over the past four decades.

Baby Name Database Launched

By Melody Smith|May 11th, 2011|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Baby Name Database Launched

A new baby name portal has been launched using a flexible and user-friendly search interface. Babynology provides additional details including background, meaning and usage patterns.