data management news from FierceCIO

The term Big Data tends to bring to mind notions of analytics, but there are many other IT functions that require strategies for handling the growing tsunami of information. When developing a roadmap Read more...

Trying to establish "one version of the truth" when it comes to operational data can be like searching for the Holy Grail at a lot of companies. With a redoubled focus on managing via metrics these Read more...

Dealing with mountains of data is nothing new for enterprise IT departments, but the mountains appear to be growing at a faster rate and in less predictable ways than before. With a seemingly Read more...

Data science has become a burgeoning field, as companies increasingly try to glean competitive value from their data and turn the decision-making process into one that's data-driven. DJ Patil, a data Read more...

Over the past decade, consulting and services giant Accenture consolidated 2,100 applications into about 500. The company has a single financial system, a single HR system and a single T&E system Read more...

Few companies these days seem to have too little data on their hands from the perspective of data management, but some are hard at work acquiring more, even if it means creating it synthetically. I Read more...

Does big data really amount to anything more than the data we had all along? It all depends on how it's put to use, writes Alistair Croll in a post at O'Reilly Radar. If big data is left buried in Read more...

The importance of data governance is fast ballooning, as information piles up amid burgeoning compliance obligations, marketing strategies and budget pressures. Data governance remains a somewhat Read more...

You can write the finest usage policies in the world, but there will still be employees who take good IT and do bad things with it. CIOUpdate's Don Reisinger presents 11 of the most cringe-inducing Read more...

Data management seems like a very modern problem, but the difficulty inherent in maximizing the value of information is not new. Some of today's data challenges have counterparts in the Victorian Read more...