Digital DNA Fran Howarth, Quocirca | 28th August As the threat landscape shifts from defending perimeters to a focus on protecting the information contained within, organisations need to develop effective information governance capabilities.
	BI - The Next Generation? Dr Dave Waddington, The Information Difference | 21st August Ex-Business Objects employees Mark Sands and Mark Hudson founded Antivia in 2007 with offices in Australia and the United Kingdom. Their mission; to utilize the power of Web 2.0 technologies to deliver content and capability to a business.
	The Elusive Data Quality Ideal Andy Hayler, The Information Difference | 19th August Data quality vendors pay too much attention to algorithms and too little to data governance, the business processes that lie behind data quality. Systems integrators such as Utopia are providing data governance add-ons to fill the gap.
	The Sybase Analytic Appliance Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 14th August Sybase is delivering an appliance in conjunction with IBM and Logica. How does it stack up?
	Entering the data mining fray Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 11th August Information Builders has announced a data mining tool called RStat based on the open source R statistical language. Could RStat become a significant competitor to SAS and SPSS?
	SDRS and the EU Data Retention Directive Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 6th August Sun and CopperEye have combined to create an appliance for Telcos and ISPs
	Accurate test data Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 4th August Traditional approaches to test data involve sampling (and then masking) from your existing data. However, there are advantages to generating the data from scratch.
	Mixed query workloads - making it work Philip Howard, Bloor Research | 1st August This is the last of three articles about mixed query workloads, discussing (briefly) its major characteristics.

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