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Top 5 Tactics for IT Service Provider Success
In a recent conversation with one of our largest IT Service Providers, they explained why their customers consider them to be such a great Managed Service Provider (MSP). A core element of this positive dynamic has been the MSP becoming a trusted provider due to their...
Cost of Delay and Asset Provisioning
“Why is that server taking so long?” As explained in an earlier blog, obtaining a new piece of hardware in a large IT organization can be a painful process. If the organization is moving to the Cloud, there may also be a central team controlling the...
Five Data Quality Imperatives for Managing Your Application Portfolio
As the rate of growth in the number of applications that organizations manage continues to accelerate, the importance of managing the application portfolio is becoming increasingly important. Excellent data quality provides the foundation for effectively managing...
Managing the Data Lifecycle
In business, we rely on applications, services, and data to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization. One of the side-effects of having a sophisticated capability is thinking we now have the capacity to analyze all the data that enters our IT...
The Internet of Things – Three Strategies for Managing Data Quality
Rapid growth of IoT Gartner predicts that 6.4 billion “things” will be connected to the Internet in 2016 and this number will grow to 21 billion by 2020. IDC’s Digital Universe study predicts that the world’s data will be almost 44 zettabytes by 2020, and the Internet...
Work in Process and Asset provisioning
Let’s look upstream of your Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB)/Asset repository. How does the data enter the system? Think it’s a streamlined process? Think again. Asset provisioning has always been a process IT professionals love to hate. Stories are...
Data Management and Data Quality
Like every other aspect of digital management, data management continues to evolve. Early pre-relational mainframe systems, such as IMS, VSAM and IDMS, placed little emphasis on data quality. These hierarchical, key-indexed and linked-list databases are very prone to...
Data Source Consolidation
Four Core Data Source Consolidation Considerations Every organization depends on a range of data sources to support different operational initiatives, and as we all know, these data sources are either additive, or continuously expanding, changing, merging,...
What to look for when considering a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Migration
As a business grows, its strategies and technology needs change. This often dictates that migration from one tool to another becomes necessary, and this is particularly critical with a CMDB. A CMDB integration with other tools and processes means migrating can become...
Your friendly neighborhood data person
As digital transformation becomes mainstream and drives organizational growth, the enterprise information pipeline continues to expand, driven by a relentless acceleration in the scale and complexity of the underlying data driving the digital expansion. This is...
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