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IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management high-scale benchmark exceeds Oracle with twice the performance and reduced TCO

A recent performance benchmark demonstrates the superior performance and scalability of the IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management solution. The paper demonstrates that the solution running in a DB2 pureScale environment is a better performing and more scalable MDM solution with a lower TCO.

Measuring the Total Economic Impact of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management

Forrester Consulting describes Master Data Management (MDM) as a ‘critical business capability and technology foundation.’ IBM clients interviewed achieved a variety of operational benefits from their MDM programs, including call center savings, improved efficiencies for inside sales staff, and lower costs for customer mailings and returns. In fact, Forrester found that a composite organization received a risk-adjusted return of 36%% on its investment in IBM InfoSphere MDM, with benefits beginning to accrue in the first year of implementation.

451 Research: IBM sheds light on the Big Blue business of information governance

IBM is known across industries as the leader in information integration and governance. The InfoSphere portfolio provides comprehensive solutions for information governance. This research piece by 451 Research provides an overview and assessment of IBM's InfoSphere solutions for information integration and governance portfolio.

Aberdeen Group – The Big Data Imperative: Why Information Governance Must be Address Now

Aberdeen has long illustrated the benefits of well-managed, trustworthy data, and the problems associated with poor data quality. As data volumes rapidly expand and data environments become more complex, what were once small nuisances evolve into massive, company-wide problems. Using research collected from December 2009 to December 2012, Aberdeen will examine the hidden financial penalties for lapsed information governance and untrustworthy data. In order to avoid these pitfalls and achieve better business efficiency and operational performance, top performing organizations have found it necessary to invest in tools such as data security, master data management, data quality, data lifecycle management and data integration.

Magic Quadrant for Master Data Management of Customer Data Solutions

The MDM of customer data solutions market segment grew healthily in 2012. New acquisitions and integrations of prior acquisitions by the Leaders have continued, and several visions for linking MDM and social data have emerged. This Magic Quadrant will help you find the right vendor for your needs.

The MDM Advantage: Creating Insight from Big Data

To help enterprises create trusted insight as the volume, velocity and variety of data continue to explode, IBM offers several solutions designed to help organizations uncover previously unavailable insights and use them to support and inform decisions across the business. Combining the power of IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) with the IBM big data portfolio creates a valuable connection: big data technology can supply insights to MDM, and MDM can supply master data definitions to big data.

Dangerous File-Sharing

A new survey of over 500 corporate employees reveals the greatest threat to data security. Find out what tools your colleagues use most to share data, and how to facilitate safe file sharing through improved policies and better tools.

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Data on the Move = Business on the Move; How Strategic Secure Managed File Transfer Adds Value and Drives Business

This whitepaper describes the formal and informal file-sharing methods business employees use to perform their daily functions and explains that, from sending small text documents to multi-gigabyte video files, the right managed file transfer (MFT) solution can allow such transfers to continue without risking the security of the corporate network. The paper explains that the right MFT solution can enable business growth, enhance operational efficiency, enable compliance, reduce costs, and increase ROI. Choosing the right MFT solution requires eight considerations described in the paper, and concludes by explaining why Globalscape solutions are the choice of our customers around the world.

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Ten ways to save money with IBM data protection

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager solutions can help organizations save money while addressing their data storage challenges by providing data reduction, unified recovery management, capacity-based licensing, scalability, high performance, data life-cycle management, and high reliability.

Meeting Demand of High Availability with Advanced Data Protection

IBM delivers scalable, cost-effective solutions for data protection that help organizations support both high-availability applications and traditional workloads. With a single vendor, organizations can meet the demands of always-on applications, while containing cost and complexity.

Master data management: The key to leveraging big data

This white paper explores how MDM’s well-defined approach augments the value of big data by giving it structure and meaning, and how InfoSphere MDM and big-data analytics tools help companies analyze big data, match it to master data and derive actionable information to inform decisions and extract insights.

Data protection for big data environments

The rapidly increasing volume, variety and velocity of data are driving the immediate need for data protection. With 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created every day, organizations cannot wait to establish business-driven protection policies for keeping data safe. The rising volume of data and the growing number of analytics systems storing sensitive data exponentially increases the risk of breaches. IBM® InfoSphere® has evolved information integration and governance to help organizations create and enforce real-time data security and privacy policies to keep data safe.

As organizations plan big data projects, business and IT leaders must recognize that data security cannot simply be added later - it must be built into big data implementations from the start. This ebook walks through the requirements of big data security.

Information Governance Best Practices: Adopt a Use Case Approach

When should you implement integration governance? According to this Gartner research note, you should start now if you are an IT professional considering an initiative like master data management (MDM), e-discovery, information archiving or cloud migration. The need for governance is prompted by a combination of massive data growth, litigation, new data types, scrutiny from a regulatory perspective and new information privacy risks.

Integrating and governing big data

While the term “big data” has only recently come into vogue, IBM has designed solutions capable of handling very large quantities of data for decades, leading the way with data integration, management, security and analytics solutions known for their reliability, flexibility and scalability. The end-to-end information integration capabilities of IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server are designed to help organizations understand, cleanse, monitor, transform and deliver data—as well as collaborate to bridge the gap between business and IT.

6 Reasons to Upgrade Your Database

In an era of big data, you must accommodate a rapidly increasing volume, variety and velocity of data while extracting actionable business insight from that data, faster than ever before. These needs create a daunting array of workload challenges and place tremendous demands on your underlying IT infrastructure and database systems. In many cases, these systems are no longer up to the task—so it’s time to make a decision: use more staff to keep up with the fixes, patches, add-ons and continual tuning required to make your existing systems meet performance goals, or move to a new database solution so you can assign your staff to new, innovative projects that move your business forward. Read the ebook to find out if the time to change your database is now. Register now.