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Perspectives & Trends in Information Management

Is open data under threat?

 30 January 2012

Many advocates of open data were dismayed by developments in 2011

Who controls 'smart' data?

 24 January 2012

The UK’s coming smart meter roll-out will set the precedent on how much control individuals have over data collected by ‘smart’ systems

The data protection gaffes of 2011

 04 January 2012

A look back at some of the worst infringements of data protection by businesses and the public sector last year

Video analytics has matured, says ABI

 03 January 2012

Research firm finds video analytics technology grew 21% in 2011, having matured to the point of practicality 

Secret identities

 08 December 2011

The government plans to share anonymised NHS data with businesses, but can patients’ identities really be disguised?

UK companies use more data, less integration – survey

 24 November 2011

Businesses in the UK use more sources of data than the global average, but those sources are less likely to be integrated, Information Builders-backed survey finds

Business challenges holding back integrated analytics

 11 November 2011

Cultural barriers are seen as the largest barrier to adoption of enterprise-wide adoption of analytics, say IBM and the MIT Sloan Management Review

Open for business

 19 September 2011

Nike is leading the way in the business use of open data

Information management driving global software market

 05 July 2011

Ovum software market forecast sees investment moving from back office functions to information management and analysis

Obama and his autopen

 14 June 2011

The US president recently used a 19th Century innovation to sign in a law while visiting France

Book review – The Information

 23 May 2011

James Gleick, the author who popularised chaos theory in the 1980s, could well repeat the trick with his new book on information theory

BI and analytics a $10 billion market, says Gartner

 21 April 2011

The market for business intelligence and analytics grew by 13.4% in 2010 to break the $10 billion barrier

IT pros don't believe in collaboration software

 20 April 2011

Two thirds of IT professionals surveyed by Forrester Research said collaboration software delivers "little to no benefits"

The foundations of big data

 18 April 2011

How Google, Yahoo! and Facebook laid the ground work for 'big data' analytics

Boom time for storage software sector

 23 March 2011

Storage software vendors enjoyed "sustained recovery" in final quarter of 2010, IDC finds

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