With the advent of the information age, the amount of digital information that is recorded and stored has been increasing at a tremendous rate. Common data formats for storage include commercial relational database engines, often interconnected via an...

A data warehouse is the main repository of an organization's historical data, its corporate memory. It contains the raw material for management's decision support system. The critical factor leading to the use of a data warehouse is that a data analyst...

Information is vital to business success. Companies cannot hope to survive if they lack timely and accurate information on such crucial issues as customer buying trends, operational performance and marketing campaigns. Unfortunately, many firms cannot make full use of information available to them because...

The evolution of data warehousing which has been critical in helping companies better serve their customers, and improve their profitability, took a combination of technological changes, together with a sustainable architecture. The tools for building this environment are quite sophisticated and offer great...

ChoicePoint Inc. has agreed to implement more safeguards as part of a settlement with 43 states and the District of Columbia over allegations it failed to adequately secure consumers' personal information related to a breach of its database it disclosed in 2005.The Alpharetta, Ga.-based consumer...

With a staffing ratio bill dead, the Service Employees International Union Local 1107 is putting efforts into a second pet project, a patient-lifting equipment bill, as the Legislature heads into the home stretch.Bills are due out of the second house on May 25, and 10...