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Posted by: Ginger Gatling October 18, 2012  There are all types of applications available in the cloud today, including ones focused on customers, sourcing and suppliers, HR, business networks, analytics, and full business processing with ERP. So, where do governance and information programs fit within these cloud applications?
Ina Felsheim does a great job of talking about governance, including what it does for you and what happens if you don’t have governance. And if you follow her on Decision Factor or Twitter, you’ll see she talks about …
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Posted by: Ina Felsheim October 16, 2012  If you’re one of the many who isn’t yet tracking metrics and constantly reporting business value achieved through your efforts, you can use the Gartner whitepaper statistic below to help you quantify results.
How many business initiatives did you undertake last year? How many delivered on time, on target, and have increasing adoption? How many do you plan to undertake next year?
Ask your CIO or program management office for these numbers—then have a discussion. If you’re normal, 40 percent of those projects will fail. Investing in the quality of the …
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Posted by: Ginger Gatling March 7, 2012  All organizations today create and use information—but are they organizations using it just to support a narrow aspect of their business operations or are they using information strategically? Grow the business? Gain market share? Improve organizational efficiencies? Better serve customers or constituents?
Optimizing how you use information and extending it to new areas increases its value. Mundane data or documents become weapons in gaining and sustaining competitive advantage when used in decision making and supporting critical processes. Information can even become a strategic weapon if an organization manages enterprise …
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Posted by: Vish Agashe August 18, 2011  Everything in life has some kind use by date, and data is no exception! In the business analytics world, all data has a context and timeliness for use in specific decision making.
With increased data velocity (Big Data) brought about by social and technology changes, it’s critical to identify and understand the decision shelf life of data generated by enterprises today. Using data beyond its useful decision shelf life will not give you any valuable insights and poses cost and compliance …
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Posted by: Vish Agashe June 7, 2011  In my previous EIM framework post, I covered how:
Text data processing must be part of every EIM framework within an IT organization The rise in prominence of text analytics can be attributed to Web/social data and well-defined use cases on employing text data processing to unravel golden information nuggets within that data Organizations need to think beyond established patterns for using text analytics in broader implications
In this post, I’ll examine use cases that yielded significant returns to the organizations that tried this approach.
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Posted by: Vish Agashe May 26, 2011  On the heels of the Text Analytics Summit, Seth Grimes noted in his article that text-analytics demand is approaching $1 billion. To reach $1 billion in demand is a significant milestone for any category in enterprise software. This type of market size helps validate the impact a given category makes on the success of the enterprise.
Past Use of Text Analytics
Traditionally, the federal government was the biggest user, incorporating text analytics (also known as text data processing) …
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