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The Lengthening Shadows for ETL for Data Warehousing


Today at the Teradata PARTNERS Conference in San Diego we announced a major new release of the Kalido Information Engine. Version 9 further extends our business-model-driven automation to cover more data integration tasks than ever before. We believe the impact of this is the need for separate, purpose-built ETL tools for data warehousing is quickly [...]

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Keep your shoes on – Business/IT alignment is not the issue


I’ve been thinking about the article and punditry around a recent discussion on IT/business alignment, and I’ve finally been inspired to respond after seeing this post today.  Wendy compares IT to the TSA and suggests that IT has a similar image problem with its customers – the non-IT part of your business – and that [...]

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Key capabilities for data governance


As you read recently, Kalido announced a new version of Kalido Data Governance Director that added new capabilities that further automate data governance programs, improving efficiency of business processes through delivery of trusted information. To better explain what these capabilities are, I sat down with Lovan Chetty, our product manager for Kalido Data Governance Director, [...]

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Achieving Fully Governed Master Data


This is my third and final post in my series about what to look for in your master data management solution. The first topic was about modeling your master data, the second was mastering the data, and this one is about governing the master data. As you have read elsewhere in the Kalido Conversations blog, [...]

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How to be the master of mastering your master data


In my last post, I discussed how important it is to be able to effectively model your master data. In this, the second in a series on the topic of master data, I want to discuss how you need to master it. By “master it,” I am referring to the workflow-driven process steps people go [...]

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