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The Three Key Requirements to Achieve Data Integrity
Reliable data is foundational to good decision making. Data Integrity is an critical requirement, which is defined in many ways. The Technopedia.com definition of Data Integrity linked here focuses on three key attributes: completeness, accuracy and consistency....
IT Management Is Becoming So Predictive – Which Is Good. Right?
Improvements in IT data quality and analysis tools have enabled IT management to spend less time looking into the past and more time enabling the dynamic enterprise of the future. This allows them to anticipate business events more accurately, forecast costs and...
The top three priorities for Data Integrity
This list is a subset of the white paper Philip Russom of TDWI Research wrote, outlining his top priorities for data-quality solutions, with a focus on the data that typically supports the IT Service Management (ITSM) functions in an organization. ITSM functions rely...
Downstream Impacts of IT Data Improvement
How well prepared is your organization for growth? What are the challenges to making progress? One often overlooked constraint is the impact of IT data across an organization (in spite of the fact that nearly every decision made is based on data). Perhaps, given this,...
Avoiding IT and Operational Technology Convergence Pitfalls
A key technology convergence impacting the mainstream adoption of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the integration of Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT). Examples of business functions that are managed using OT might be running process or...
Is Data Management a Thorn in IT’s Side?
Modern business leaders depend on data – it provides insights into operational performance, customer needs, supplier risks, market opportunities and essentially every other facet of business. More data is a good thing, right? It means the business is processing more...
The Top 5 Configuration Management Database Challenges for 2017
While not particularly highly visible, a well-managed Configuration Management Database (CMDB) provides organizations with tremendous value. In addition to this value, a CMDB requires an organization to take responsibility for keeping it fit-for-purpose. Hewlett...
The rise of IoT, what should IT execs be most worried about?
The core role of IT executives is to drive strategic enablement by stewarding the information and technology resources of the organization. This means balancing the needs of empowering individual user productivity and business process efficiency against...
The Top 5 Reasons to Augment Discovery Tools
The most popular way to populate a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) is to use an IT asset discovery and mapping tool. Unfortunately, discovery as an enablement process is complex and error-prone. One of the key drivers for data failures that often result in a...
What Your ITSM Vendors Don’t Want You to Know about Discovery Technology
Are you comfortable with how your IT Service Management (ITSM) processes address the volume, diversity and rate of change present in your IT environment? Comfortable enough to bet your job on it? Most traditional ITSM systems and their associated offerings are...
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