Microsoft announced today that it has signed an agreement to purchase Zoomix, an Israeli start-up focused on data quality software. With the Zoomix acquisition, Microsoft...

Microsoft generally likes to acquire software companies when they are quite small, with a dozen or two employees. In this way they can assimilate the development staff...

There is an interesting web forum which seeks to bring an open source approach to the world of data management. Of interest are topics involving the creation of open...

Over time, organizations replicate, migrate, or add complexity within database systems, often times losing control of the quality of their data. When applications begin...

We are often told that one of the benefit of OBI EE is the speed and ease of development. Data sources can easily be added into the system, users can then quickly build...

Netvibes, a pretty sweet portal site with a wealth of features just put out a new feature called Buzz. Today, any user can star an article on Netvibes. Buzz essentially...

Today sees the launch of the Information Difference, a boutique market research and analyst firm specialising in the master data management market. This reflects the...

I was amused by a piece regarding data quality in which a data quality initiative at a chemical manufacturer was kicked off only after a warehouse burnt down and the...

Semantic integration is something I wrote about some time ago, but is definitely getting more attention than it used to. This week we see the launch of expressor, a...

I have recently noticed a pronounced division in the mentality of software vendors to disclosing information. On the credit side of the column are vendors like Kognitio,...

As I mentioned before, Rittman Mead Consulting really does consulting, it’s in the company name!! Although a lot of the posts on the company blog are based on our...

Last week I received the July issue of CRM Magazine, and the cover story is about Microsoft CRM (more on that later). Bundled with the magazine was a 30+ page supplement...

The conference continued today with a string of customer case studies, plus some panel discussions and a couple of vendor presentations that just about managed to avoid...

Here's a good news for our readers. We are going to host the first edition of the "Carnival of Business Intelligence" on February 19, 2007. We require...

Just to let you know that the Information Difference has released its first piece of primary market research, as reported by IT Pro. There are some intriguing snippets...

  If we had a contest, I might win with that photo of Ian and Dylan in the 3D glasses. Steve gets all the credit for that Photoshopped...