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Information Management
Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data
- 1st Edition - November 30, 2013
- Author: William McKnight
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 8 0 5 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 9 5 2 6 - 7
Information Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data is about making smart decisions to make the most of company information. Expert author William McKnight develops… Read more
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Request a sales quoteInformation Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data is about making smart decisions to make the most of company information. Expert author William McKnight develops the value proposition for information in the enterprise and succinctly outlines the numerous forms of data storage. Information Management will enlighten you, challenge your preconceived notions, and help activate information in the enterprise. Get the big picture on managing data so that your team can make smart decisions by understanding how everything from workload allocation to data stores fits together.
The practical, hands-on guidance in this book includes:
- Part 1: The importance of information management and analytics to business, and how data warehouses are used
- Part 2: The technologies and data that advance an organization, and extend data warehouses and related functionality
- Part 3: Big Data and NoSQL, and how technologies like Hadoop enable management of new forms of data
- Part 4: Pulls it all together, while addressing topics of agile development, modern business intelligence, and organizational change management
Read the book cover-to-cover, or keep it within reach for a quick and useful resource. Either way, this book will enable you to master all of the possibilities for data or the broadest view across the enterprise.
- Balances business and technology, with non-product-specific technical detail
- Shows how to leverage data to deliver ROI for a business
- Engaging and approachable, with practical advice on the pros and cons of each domain, so that you learn how information fits together into a complete architecture
- Provides a path for the data warehouse professional into the new normal of heterogeneity, including NoSQL solutions
IT organizations/ vendors/consultants, DBAs, information architects, managers/directors of information management.
Foreword
In praise of Information Management
Preface
Chapter One. You’re in the Business of Information
An Architecture for Information Success
The Glue is Architecture
Workload Success
Information in Action
Judgment Still Necessary
Chapter Two. Relational Theory In Practice
Relational Theory
Multidimensional Databases
RDBMS Platforms
Action Plan
Chapter Three. You’re in the Business of Analytics
What Distinguishes Analytics?
Predictive Analytics
Building Predictive Analytic Models
Analytics and Information Architecture
Analytics Requires Analysts
Action Plan
Chapter Four. Data Quality: Passing the Standard
Data Quality Defect Categories
Sources of Poor Data Quality
Cures for Poor Data Quality
Action Plan
Chapter Five. Columnar Databases
Columnar Operation
Compression
Workloads
Workload Examples
Columnar Conclusions
Action Plan
Chapter Six. Data Warehouses and Appliances
Data Warehousing
The Data Warehouse Appliance
Data Appliances and the Use of Memory
Action Plan
Chapter Seven. Master Data Management: One Chapter Here, but Ramifications Everywhere
MDM Justification
A Subject-Area Culture
Mastering Data
The Architecture of MDM
MDM Governance
Data Quality and MDM
MDM Roles and Responsibilities
MDM Technology
Action Items
Chapter Eight. Data Stream Processing: When Storing the Data Happens Later
Uses of Data Stream Processing
Data Stream Processing Brings Power
Stream SQL Extensions
In Conclusion
Action Plan
References
Chapter Nine. Data Virtualization: The Perpetual Short-Term Solution
The History of Data Virtualization
Controlling Your Information Asset
Action Plan
Reference
Chapter Ten. Operational Big Data: Key-Value, Document, and Column Stores: Hash Tables Reborn
When to Yes NoSQL
NoSQL Attributes
NoSQL Categorization
Key-Value Stores
Document Stores
Column Stores
NoSQL Solution Checklist
Action Plan
Chapter Eleven. Analytical Big Data: Hadoop: Analytics at Scale
Big Data for Hadoop
Hadoop Defined
Hadoop Distributed File System
MapReduce for Hadoop
Failover
Hadoop Distributions
Supporting Tools
Hadoop Challenges
Hadoop is Not
Summary
Action Plan
Chapter Twelve. Graph Databases: When Relationships are the Data
Terms
Structure
Centrality Analysis
Cypher, a Graph Database Language
Graph Database Models
Action Plan
Chapter Thirteen. Cloud Computing: On-Demand Elasticity
Defining Cloud Computing
Benefits of the Cloud
Challenges with the Cloud
Cloud Deployment Models
Information Management in the Cloud
Action Plan
Chapter Fourteen. An Elegant Architecture Where Information Flows
The Starting Point
Plenty of Work to be Done
Information Management Maturity
Leadership
Action Plan
Chapter Fifteen. Modern Business Intelligence—Collaboration, Mobile, and Self-Service: Organizing the Discussion and Tethering the User to Information
The Mobile Revolution
Mobile Business Intelligence
Self-Service Business Intelligence
Collaborative Business Intelligence
Action Plan
Chapter Sixteen. Agile Practices for Information Management
Traditional Waterfall Methodology
Agile Approaches
SCRUM
SCRUM and Methodology Themes
Action Plan
Chapter Seventeen. Organizational Change Management: The Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff
Organizational Change Management Work Products
Organization Change Management is Essential to Project Success
Action Plan
Index
- No. of pages: 214
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 30, 2013
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN: 9780124080560
- eBook ISBN: 9780124095267
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William McKnight
William is President of McKnight Consulting Group (www.mcknightcg.com). He is an internationally recognized authority in information management. His consulting work has included many of the Global 2000 and numerous midmarket companies. His teams have won several best practice competitions for their implementations and many of his clients have gone public with their success stories. His strategies form the information management plan for leading companies in various industries.
William is a very popular speaker worldwide and a prolific writer with hundreds of articles and white papers published. William is a distinguished entrepreneur, and a former Fortune 50 technology executive and software engineer. He provides clients with strategies, architectures, platform and tool selection, and complete programs to manage information.
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