Information Management

Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data

William McKnight (President of McKnight Consulting Group)

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English

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
12 December 2013

Database programming; Data warehousing

Series: The Savvy Manager's Guides

Information Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data is about making smart decisions to make the most of company information. Expert author William McKnight develops the value proposition for information in the enterprise and succinctly outlines the numerous forms of data storage. Information Management will enlighten you, challenge your preconceived notions, and help activate information in the enterprise. Get the big picture on managing data so that your team can make smart decisions by understanding how everything from workload allocation to data stores fits together.

The practical, hands-on guidance in this book includes:

Part 1: The importance of information management and analytics to business, and how data warehouses are used

Part 2: The technologies and data that advance an organization, and extend data warehouses and related functionality

Part 3: Big Data and NoSQL, and how technologies like Hadoop enable management of new forms of data

Part 4: Pulls it all together, while addressing topics of agile development, modern business intelligence, and organizational change management

Read the book cover-to-cover, or keep it within reach for a quick and useful resource. Either way, this book will enable you to master all of the possibilities for data or the broadest view across the enterprise.

By: William McKnight (President of McKnight Consulting Group)
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9780124080560
ISBN 10: 0124080561
Series: The Savvy Manager's Guides
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 12 December 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1: No Matter What Business You’re In, You’re in the Business of Information Chapter 1. Relational Theory in Practice: Data Warehouses and Data Marts Chapter 2. Business Intelligence is Everywhere and You’re in the Business of Analytics Chapter 3. Data Quality: Passing the Standard Part 2: Beyond the Data Warehouse Chapter 4. Data Warehouse Appliances and Columnar Approaches Chapter 5. Master Data Management Chapter 6. Data Stream Processing Chapter 7. Data Virtualization Chapter 8. Syndicated Data Part 3: Big Data Chapter 9. Hadoop: Analytics at Scale Chapter 10. Key-Value Stores, Document Stores, and Column Stores Chapter 11. Graph Databases Chapter 12. Cloud Computing Part 4: Putting it all Together Chapter 13. An Elegant Architecture Where Information Flows Chapter 14. Collaboration, Mobile and Self-Service Chapter 15. Information Security Chapter 16. Agile Approaches, Specifically SCRUM Chapter 17. Organizational Change Management

William is President of McKnight Consulting Group (www.mcknightcg.com). He is an internationally recognized authority in information management. His consulting work has included many of the Global 2000 and numerous midmarket companies. His teams have won several best practice competitions for their implementations and many of his clients have gone public with their success stories. His strategies form the information management plan for leading companies in various industries.William is a very popular speaker worldwide and a prolific writer with hundreds of articles and white papers published. William is a distinguished entrepreneur, and a former Fortune 50 technology executive and software engineer. He provides clients with strategies, architectures, platform and tool selection, and complete programs to manage information.

Reviews for Information Management: Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data

"""William McKnight has delivered a very clear and concise explanation about how to get the most from your organization's data. He steps the reader through an assortment of data processing technologies and approaches and show which deliver the best ROI for which types of workloads. This is a desperately needed mapping that many users will find invaluable!"" - Wayne Eckerson, business intelligence thought leader and president of Eckerson Group, a business-technology management consulting firm specializing in BI, performance management, and analytics. ""A blueprint and action plan for a corporate information management strategy, this book is a useful guide for anyone who wishes to improve business success with technology. Author William McKnight provides the foundation and tools for information managers to set policies and programs for the improved management of information, while addressing advances in architecture and technology principles."" - Julie Langenkamp-Muenkel, Editorial Director of Information-Management.com ""I always enjoy William's writing, especially his balance between inspiring foresight and pragmatic advice rooted in real-world experience. He has skillfully shown that poise again: with his guidance you'll find Information Management transforms what can be a burdensome responsibility into an insightful practice."" - Donald Farmer, VP Product Management, qlikview.com ""Many claim we're in the golden age of data management; every traditional paradigm and approach seems to have a newer, better, and faster alternative. This book provides a terrific overview of the new class of technologies that must be integrated into every CIO's technology plan."" - Evan Levy, Co-Author, Customer Data Integration: Reaching a Single Version of the Truth ""Big data is no longer just an IT topic. It's one that's now top-of-mind for executives, too. William McKnight takes the increasingly knotty hairball of information management-its practices, technologies, and skills-and unravels it in this timely and relevant book. A must-read for business and IT pros alike."" - Jill Dyche, SAS Vice President and author of The New IT ""I challenge any Information Management professional to not get value from this book. William covers a range of topics, and has so much knowledge he is able to offer usable insights across them all. The book is unique in the way it provides such a solid grounding for anyone making architectural or process decisions in the field of information management, and should be required reading for organizations looking to understand how newer approaches and technologies can be used to enable better decision making."" - Michael Whitehead, CEO and Co-Founder, WhereScape Software"