Identity Resolution Daily Links 2008-4-18
[Post from Infoglide Software] Mistaken Identity Resolution Part IV: Identity Resolution vs. Data Warehousing
“Thus far this series of posts on ‘Mistaken Identity Resolution’ has contrasted Identity Resolution with Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Integration. What about one of the more established data concepts - data warehouses? How are they different? And how do they work together? If at all?”
Ovum: Informatica gets new identity, reports steady Q1 growth
“Informatica has agreed to buy Identity Systems, a subsidiary of Nokia, for around $85m in cash. . . . Informatica believes that Identity’s software will give it a ‘differentiated’ cross-language identity matching capabilities. That said, InfoGlide and IBM (from its SRD acquisition) also have identity resolution engines. Arguably these two products are more complete in that they use rules engine and workflow processes to automate decision making.”
Vindy.com: Organized retail theft to equal racketeering
“A Cincinnati lawmaker introduced legislation Tuesday cracking down on organized retail theft rings that target stores for everything from baby formula to small appliances. Republican Sen. Bill Seitz said such crime is costing retailers billions of dollars annually in lost sales and state and local governments some $88 million in sales tax revenues. Seitz’s SB 320 would add ‘organized retail theft’ to the list of offenses Ohio law categorizes as ‘corrupt activity,’ ranking it with racketeering.”
b-eye.com - Business Intelligence Network - Blog: Shawn Rogers: The stack is moving….
“Generally when we use the term stack in the business intelligence world we are talking about the big 4: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP along with all their recent acquisitions Cognos, BO etc. All of these companies claim to provide a platform to enable every type of business intelligence you might need to have. It’s interesting to me that one of the largest platforms out there is often ignored but continues to grow into our business world through the internet. Google is much more than a search engine. Over the past couple years the company has branched out to become a business solution platform. Some of the players in the BI space are already taking advantage of it.”
KNXV-TV: Website tells you how long security lines are at Sky Harbor Airport
“The next time you fly you may want to click on the TSA website in order to save some time or prepare to wait a little longer in security lines. . . . The government owned site allows a user to click on various airports, terminals, and security checkpoints to see how long you should expect to wait in line before making it to the gate.”
DataFlux Community of Experts: Master Data Discovery and Data Mapping
“In my experience, if you follow processes associated with customer data you start to discover master data residing in other unexpected places, e.g. Access databases, Excel spreadsheets etc. . . . Having discovered disparate master data, you will most likely find that even if copies of master data reside in different systems the data may be named differently across those systems. So, the next challenge is for each master data entity (e.g. customer, product, employee, asset etc.) to map disparate master data in identified systems to commonly defined master data described using the shared business vocabulary. This is a difficult and time-consuming exercise to do manually. Fortunately, there are tools now available to help explore systems looking for master data and to automatically map that disparate data to commonly defined enterprise wide definitions of master data.”
Homeland Security Watch: Homeland Secretary Offers 10-year Vision, in 4 Parts
“Last week DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff delivered a speech at Yale University entitled ‘Confronting The Threats To Our Homeland.’ Citing the five-year mark for DHS and the three-year mark for his tenure as its head, he explained that such an occasion warrants not just one speech, but four. And the first — the one he delivered at Yale — offers insight into the way he views the ‘challenges and threats that we face over the next five and ten years relating to homeland security in the broadest sense.’”
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