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A large wireless phone service provider was concerned with the number of customers it was losing. Every customer lost costs the company $53 in monthly revenue. Although the revenue looks small on a customer by customer basis, with a large … Continue reading
Posted in analytics, business intelligence, data, information
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Your Business Data is Decaying
Data quality is an ever-present enemy of business applications and database systems. Sure, the data may be accurate today, but things change. And when they do, how quickly can you adapt? How do you even find out that things have … Continue reading
Posted in data, Data Quality, information, tools
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Accuracy Versus Speed
Brevity is the enemy of accuracy. I could stop writing right there, but then that would be too brief, and I would much rather be accurate. Most of us strive to keep our days moving along. Making things faster is … Continue reading
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Managing The Information Tsunami
It is okay to say, “I don’t know.” This simple phrase seems to be the absolute last statement that computer professionals want to utter. I guess the thinking goes something like this: “If I admit I don’t know what he … Continue reading
More DBA Proverbs
The last post I made here was rather popular, so I decided to dig up and post a few more of my Favorite Quotes that apply to IT and database administration. So here, in no particular order, are my latest … Continue reading
Posted in change management, DBA, information
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My Other IOD Posts
I posted a blog entry here earlier in the week from the IBM Information On Demand (IOD) conference. I also wrote a couple of blog entries about IOD at my other blog, DB2portal. Well, just in case readers of this … Continue reading
Data Privacy Policies
Do you know what data privacy policy your service providers follow? Continue reading
Web Resources for Data Management Professionals
The web offers a plethora of useful data- and database-related information… if you just know where to look for it. Continue reading
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Information Overload is a Myth!
Computerworld ran an article title “Information overload: Is it time for a data diet?” which got me to thinking. Now as anyone who knows me will agree, that can be a dangerous thing. But after thinking about it for a … Continue reading
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