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July 2008
TMCnet
Seven Things IT Should be Doing (but isn't)
Bad, incomplete, or unusable data has been the bane of thousands of enterprises. Even data that's perfectly usable in one form may be useless in a broader context -- which leads to poor decision-making. In this article on TMCnet, DataFlux president and CEO Tony Fisher relates why taming the data monster is one of seven things that IT should be doing, but probably isn't.
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destinationCRM
DataFlux Has the Edge in Gartner's Magic Quadrant on Data Quality Tools
According to the 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools from Gartner Research, DataFlux has firmly established itself in the market and is now a distinguished brand. This article in destinationCRM analyzes the findings presented in this influential annual report.
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DM Review
Do You Know If Your Data Is Accurate?
While regulatory compliance isn’t dominating the news as it did a few years ago, it is still an issue that organizations struggle with on a daily basis. In this article in DMReview, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher examines how organizations are increasingly finding that compliance initiatives offer unexpected advantages to improving business processes, including how regulatory watchlist compliance can help organizations better understand customers.
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DM Review
Cintas Turns to DataFlux to Deliver Uniform Customer Data
Cintas, the specialized services provider, has seven business divisions sharing five different data source systems that run simultaneously. The company needed to reduce and/or eliminate data duplication and ensure the quality of customer data through clustering functionality and data matching. This product review in DM Review examines how Cintas implemented DataFlux dfPower Studio and the DataFlux Integration Server to address the spread of customer data across these systems, providing all business divisions access to much cleaner data that could support more successful customer relationships.
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IndustryWeek
Data De-Duplication: The Quiet Environmental Asset
In the corporate race to be come more "green," one characteristic of practically any data source - duplicate data - may be an overlooked, but vital, area of concern. This byline by Tony Fisher, president and CEO of DataFlux, examines how removing duplicate data can reduce energy expenditures from data processes, reduce storage requirements for enterprise data and curtail CO2 emissions.
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Processor.com
Solutions To Storage Problems: Trouble Lurks Around Every Storage Corner, But Help Is Here
Data center personnel continuously find themselves grappling with storage problems. In this article in Processor.com, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher explains how the most common storage-related problem in data centers today is that there’s simply not enough of it. Economy concerns, along with a growing focus on the environment and energy expenditures, have companies struggling to find budget-friendly ways to store increasing amounts of information, but data de-duplication can correct these problems.
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TechNewsWorld
Master Data Management Myth-Busters
There are several myths floating around about master data management. One myth involves the belief that the definition of MDM is that it is a way to manage enterprise data about a company's customers, products and other information assets. In this article in Tech News World, DataFlux CEO Tony Fisher debunks this myth, saying this definition is, at best, imprecise.
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The IT-Finance Connection
Data Management: Finding Common Ground between Business and IT
Businesses are discovering that their success is increasingly tied to the quality of their information. As companies collect more and more information about their customers, products, suppliers, inventory and finances, it becomes more difficult to accurately maintain that information in a usable, logical framework. In this article in the IT-Finance Connection, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher examines how - while technology is important - the integrity of a company's data also hinges on the integrity of its employees' maintenance practices, and enabling an environment conducive to respect and cooperation can go a long way in improving data quality.
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June 2008
iTnews
DataFlux Updates Platform to Enhance Scalability
DataFlux has updated its core Data Quality Integration Platform, improving performance and scalability. In this look at the new release from the Australian journal iTnews takes a look at the new release and discusses some key features with DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher.
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IT Week
DataFlux Updates Platform to Enhance Scalability
DataFlux has updated its Data Quality Integration Platform with improvements in performance and scalability by releasing Version 8.1 of its core technology. In this article from IT Week, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher speaks about some of the features of the new release and discusses some of the business needs that DataFlux technology addresses.
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BtoB Online
Data integration helps Pitt-Ohio Express get to know its customers
This article in BtoB Online examines how Pitt-Ohio Express wanted to consolidate duplicate customer records in order to gain a better understanding of its customers at a name level. To achieve this, the company turned to DataFlux for an comprehensive customer data ingeration (CDI) solution.
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TechNewsWorld
Breakthroughs in Analytics
In this survey of leading software packages, TechNewsWorld speaks with DataFlux CTO Scott Gidley about how the most advanced analytics systems available will analyze the quality of data using a web-based interface to display metrics on a data source ,and how the DataFlux Accelerator for Customer Data Analysis enables a master data management approach to analytics.
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May 2008
The IT-Finance Connection
IT's Integral Role in Compliance Efforts
In this audio interview on the IT-Finance Connection site, DataFlux president and CEO Tony Fisher examines how IT can help organizations benefit from ever stricter regulatory obligations. Once they have run the technology that ensures the rules are followed, IT can show management how to leverage the infrastructure that has been put in place to improve the company’s performance.
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TMCnet
Case Study: Intellidyn Integrates Intelligent Insight To Customer Needs
DataFlux data management technology gave Intellidyn, the leading information and analytic services company, a competitive edge through an end-to-end approach to data quality and data integration. This case study on TMCnet examines how DataFlux allowed the company to build more current and accurate views of customer information, decrease access time to three different data sources from 22 to six hours, and helped build a data warehouse necessary to generate a 360-degree view of every consumer in the US.
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Manufacturing Business Technology
Nalco Masters Data Governance with Quality Management Tool
Nalco, a water treatment company with more than 70,000 customers in 130 countries, realized that data quality was the hot button in migrating to a single, global instance of SAP. In this article in Manufacturing Business Technology, Charlon Franklin, senior data steward analyst for Nalco, explains how the company relied on DataFlux technology to ensure that it had the high-quality data it needed.
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April 2008
ZDNet Australia
Burning Down the Warehouse
Getting executive sponsorship for any kind of data clean-up project isn't easy. In this article from ZDNnet Australia, DataFlux President and CEO recommends looking for the business case first -- making getting executive sponsorship much easier.
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IT Business Edge
Was Data Integration a Factor in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis?
In part one of this two-part interview in IT Business Edge, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher discusses how the lack of the quality practices, together with the fact that the data management practices and processes were breaking down, fueled the recent subprime mortgage crisis, and how better data management practices, better data quality and data integration could have gone a long way to alleviating some problems.
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IT Business Edge
How Data Integration Can Fix Regulatory Compliance, Business Problems
In part two of this two-part interview in IT Business Edge, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher discusses how addressing regulatory compliance issues is an effort involving both business and technology, and how there's an opportunity for CIOs to facilitate improvement by taking part in business decisions.
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Campus Technology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock Using DataFlux in First-Ever Information Quality Graduate Program
The University of Arkansas Little Rock has decided to use a DataFlux application in its information quality master's degree program. This article in Ca,pus Technology examine show students will be working with DataFlux dfPower Studio in this one-of-a-kind program.
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IT Business Edge
How IT and Data Integration Can Help Us 'Handle the Truth'
One of the promises of master data management and other data integration projects is that you can obtain a “single view” of the truth. But sometimes, companies don’t have access to the truth because it’s buried in massive amounts of data. In these situations, IT and technology can make all the difference. In this blog post on IT Business Edge, Loraine Lawson discusses how this topic came up in her recent interview with DataFlux president and CEO Tony Fisher, and how companies can learn to "handle the truth."
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DM News
CRM: Making every dollar, and customer, count
Customer relationship management, or CRM, has never been as critical to businesses as it is right now. In an uncertain economics period when many organizations' first impulse is to cut costs in order to stay competitive, it is essential to do so in a pragmatic way. In this article in DM News, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher gives some tips on how organizations can use the data they have on their customers to find ways to maximize profits and reduce costs.
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Enterprise Systems Journal
The Real-Time BI Dilemma
For many organizations, the decision to move to real-time BI is fraught with challenges. The much-ballyhooed promises of real-time -- instantaneous access to timely and potentially game-changing business information -- come at a price. One big issue is data quality. If you're feeding customers real-time data, you want to make sure that it's as accurate, timely, and clean as possible. In this article in Enterprise Systems Journal, DataFlux director of corporate communications Daniel Teachey discusses some industry trends for data quality being applied to real-time BI.
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March 2008
Manufacturing Business Technology
Classification by Numbers: Dutch Chemicals Manufacturer Adopts e Cl@ss-based Spend Analysis
When The Netherlands-headquartered DSM decided it needed greater visibility into its spend, it discovered that specialist strategic sourcing applications weren’t fully equal to the task of matching and classifying the products and services it was buying. In this article in Manufacturing Business Technology online, DSM’s global data manager Joachim Beurskens, relates why the multinational chemical company went with a solution from DataFlux.
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Computer Weekly
Is Data the CIO's Responsibility?
The challenge of maintaining high-quality data has been around since the proliferation of the database, but it is still an issue that affects a wide variety of businesses and the public sector. In this article in Computer Weekly, Colin Rickard, Managing Director, DataFlux UK, examines how, to meet this challenge, there must be a in the organization recognition that data is a strategic asset.
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Accounting Web
Taking the plunge: Tales from the front
Cost-effective and user-friendly technology is changing the way accountancy firms view CRM. In this article in the UK-based Accounting Web magazine, Colin Rickard, managing director for DataFlux, North and West Europe, explains how customer data integration (CDI) is a key element of this, and how CDI will revolutionize how firms deal with data.
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Earthweb.com
Datamation Announces Details for its 2008 Product of the Year Winners
Datamation has announced details for the winners of its 2008 Product of the Year awards. In the tight race for the Product of the Year award in the Network and Systems Management category, the DataFlux Accelerators came out first. Voting for the Datamation Product of the Year awards is conducted by the diverse IT professionals who comprise Datamation's readership.
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Processor.com
Improving Data Quality - Bad Data Impacts Your Enterprise's Bottom Line
Companies rely on data quality to support business processes. As data elements lose quality, the cost of completing IT processes based on that data rises. In this article on Processor.com, Scott Gidley, CTO of DataFlux, explores several factors that make it hard to maintain data quality, and advises how to seek the causes and cures for declining data fitness.
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IT-Director
Successful Parenting in Data Quality
Companies often like to portray grand strategic thinking when it comes to purchases, but this one got started because a SAS executive was caught in a snowstorm and shared a long rental car ride with a DataFlux employee. This article by Andy Hayler from Bloor Research in IT-Director.com takes a look at the history of DataFlux from the beginning of its relationship with SAS to its present place as a market leader in data quality and data governance.
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February 2008
WRAL.com
DataFlux Secures Patent for Data Validation Rules
DataFlux has secured a patent for its management and validation technology. DataFlux Chief Executive Officer Tony Fisher, Chief Technology Officer Scott Gidley and developers Brian Rineer and Brent Jackson shared in the patent. This article on the website of Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL reports on the patent and the covered technology that enables organizations to standardize, match and validate data through user-generated rules.
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Fox Business
DataFlux Wins 2008 Datamation.com Product of the Year Award
Fox Business news reports that Jupitermedia Corporation today announced that the users of Datamation.com, a leading industry web site that provides ideas and analysis for IT managers, have chosen the winners for the Datamation.com 2008 Product of the Year Awards. The DataFlux Accelerator for Customer Data Quality won the 2008 Product of the Year Award in the Network and Systems category.
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January 2008
WRAL.com
DataFlux Promotes Marketing Executive
Katie Fabiszak, who led marketing efforts at DataFlux, is now the company’s international managing director. In this article on the website of Raleigh, North Carolina television station WRAL, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher speaks about the opportunity and the international future of DataFlux.
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DM Review
Data Fit to Compete
In this interview conducted by DM Review Editorial Director Jim Ericson, DataFlux President and CEO Tony Fisher relates his views of the current environment for data quality, master data and data governance.
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Computer Weekly
Great Ormond Street Adopts Database Cleansing Platform to Boost Fundraising
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity has selected the DataFlux platform to improve its fund raising. DataFlux will provide data profiling and real-time data quality tools, which will enable the organization to investigate, standardize, de-duplicate, cleanse and verify data residing within the charity's "Raisers Edge" database, providing a clear representation of a donor's likely level of contribution and allowing for targeted fund raising.
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Computing
Great Ormond Street Boosts Fundraising
The fund raising arm of Great Ormond Street Hospital has invested in DataFlux data integration systems to boost fund raising opportunities, improving the hospitals Children’s Charity's communication with donors by improving data quality and enabling greater understanding of individual benefactors. "IT plays a vital role in underpinning our operations, and this offers clear efficiency benefits through a consistently reliable, comprehensive view of our donors," said the charity's head of community fund raising, Matt Forrest, "We are already seeing how this will help us build long-term relationships and understand where we can unlock further funding."
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IT Pro
Sick Kids Charity Boosts Data Control
A charity supporting London' Great Ormond Street Hospital hospital is looking to boost its data quality - and in turn, the donations it receives - with a new data management system. This article in IT Prod looks at how Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity rolled out DataFlux's dfPower Studio in September in order to improve data quality and integration for it's 3.5 million financial records, relating to half a million individual and corporate donors.
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Database Trends and Applications
Seven Trends Shaping the Data Center of 2008
The coming year promises to be yet another period of great change for the enterprise IT management world, as end-users and vendors alike seek to better integrate solutions that have greater impact on the business. This article in Database Trends and Applications magazine highlights the top seven trends to watch in 2008, including thoughts from Scott Gidley, CTO and co-founder of DataFlux, on how data governance will be a top priority in 2008.
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CRM Magazine
Insuring Accurate Data
Insurance.com cleans up its customer data with DataFlux data quality and data integration technology. By providing insurance data to hundreds of external sites, Insurance.com can unknowingly create multiple records on the same customers. DataFlux technology allowed the insurance company to profile, standardize and de-duplicate customer records, both in batch and real-time deployments.
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