by Blazent | Aug 11, 2016 | Blog, Data Management
Shaun Daly published a great article titled “Why Financial Transparency Matters”, in which he describes the challenges that traditional service provides are faced with in order to expand margins while winning new clients. The clients, seeking to avoid large up-front...
by Blazent | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog, Data Management
A Configuration Management Database (CMDB) project never really ends. As long as an organization continues to evolve, the CMDB needs to adapt to the associated IT infrastructure changes. Most people consider a CMDB to be a failure if it contains largely un-used or...
by Blazent | Jun 23, 2016 | Blog, Data Intelligence, Data Management
The Configuration Management Database business case… elusive, intangible. How do you define it? Part of the CMDB challenge is what data to manage. How do we think more systematically about this? First, we need to understand why we want to assemble this...
by Blazent | Jun 21, 2016 | Data Intelligence, Data Management, Data Purification
The rate at which things change can sometimes be so gradual that we barely notice it. Like that one day when we casually grab for and put on someone else’s glasses, only to realize how our vision has changed and how nearsighted we’ve become. Or, you head to the closet...
by Blazent | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, Data Management, IT Data Intelligence
It’s a really big step to elevate raw data to a form that can claim to improve business outcomes. Fortunately, with appropriate degree of manipulation, aggregation and context, data can be transformed into the foundation of sound business decision making. In...
by Blazent | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, Data Management, Data Quality
There has been a lot of talk lately about the need to improve data quality for IT groups. But, is it always justified? I agree with the importance of good quality data, but I find the driving force behind it is not always clear to most people. When I...
