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Enterprise data storage management

• High-performance computing use cases and benefits in business

  High-performance computing has moved from the rarified realm of research and government and into the enterprise. Learn how systems are evolving to handle data and deliver profit. Continue Reading

• Step-by-step guide to a blockchain implementation

  If you're not experimenting with blockchain, you're behind the curve. Our step-by-step guide on implementing blockchain dissects the challenges, best practices and payoffs. Continue Reading

• business process outsourcing (BPO)

  Business process outsourcing, or BPO, is a business practice in which one organization hires another company to perform a task (i.e., process) that the hiring organization requires for its own business to successfully operate. Continue Reading

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)

  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is a federal law that established sweeping auditing and financial regulations for public companies. Continue Reading

• business process management (BPM)

  Business process management (BPM) is the discipline of improving a business process from end to end by analyzing it, modelling how it works in different scenarios, executing improvements, monitoring the improved process and continually optimizing it. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • business process outsourcing (BPO)
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
  • business process management (BPM)
  • entrepreneur (entrepreneurship)

  • business process reengineering (BPR)
  • synthetic data
  • Six Sigma
  • migration

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• entrepreneur (entrepreneurship)

  An entrepreneur is an individual who identifies a need in the marketplace and works to fulfill it.Continue Reading

• business process reengineering (BPR)

  Business process reengineering (BPR) is an approach to change management in which the related tasks required to obtain a specific business outcome are radically redesigned. An important goal of BPR is to analyze workflows within and between ...Continue Reading

• synthetic data

  Synthetic data is information that's artificially manufactured rather than generated by real-world events.Continue Reading

• Enterprise data analytics strategy: A guide for CIOs

  This Essential Guide explores enterprise data analytics strategies and how to select the right infrastructure, management tactics and technologies for your organization.Continue Reading

• Six Sigma

  Six Sigma is an approach to data-driven management that seeks to improve quality by measuring how many defects there are in a process and systematically eliminating them until there are as close to zero defects as possible.Continue Reading

• migration

  In information technology (IT), migration is the process of moving from the use of one operating environment to another operating environment that is, in most cases, thought to be a better one.Continue Reading

• e-procurement (supplier exchange)

  E-procurement is the business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies and services over the Internet.Continue Reading

• data collection

  Data collection is a process for gathering information from different sources. In business, data collection helps organizations answer relevant questions and evaluate possible business outcomes.Continue Reading

• workflow

  Workflow is the series of activities that are necessary to complete a task.Continue Reading

• Enterprise architecture for big data: Build it or buy it?

  CIOs looking to make mountains of big data actionable are deliberating whether it's best to build their own enterprise architecture for big data or source the necessary technology from providers. There are pros and cons to each approach, as ...Continue Reading