With the ever increasing volumes of data traffic, ensuring high quality of data is rapidly becoming a huge task. It's a constant problem for data warehouses and Business Intelligence solutions, which are often seen as the point of truth and therefore the foundation of strategic business decisions.

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What is big data? - O'Reilly Radar

The hot IT buzzword of 2012, big data has become viable as cost-effective approaches have emerged to tame the volume, velocity and variab...

Drowning in numbers

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The information management payoff

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Big data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and productivity | McKinsey Global Institute | Technology & Innovation | McKinsey & Company

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Bigdata

Big data - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Big data[1] are datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand dat...

Big data and BYOD will challenge firms in 2012 | IT PRO

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The human factor

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