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• Tokenisation: Five things CIOs need to know

  Tokenisation replaces protected data with a digital placeholder that applications use just as they would real Social Security or credit card numbers. But if you're hacked, the data is useless to criminals.

• Informatica teams with Cloudera to ease Hadoop use

  Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera's Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monday.

• Microsoft's PowerPivot: Five things you need to know

  It boosts your business intelligence. Even the most robust business intelligence shops create only a small percentage of the reports an organization needs, says Rob Collie, CTO for the consulting firm Pivotstream. Microsoft's PowerPivot lets managers execute many of the same types of queries and generate reports directly from Microsoft Office. Like a pivot table on steroids, it can pull large amounts of data into Excel from multiple sources.

• Software AG acquires MDM vendor

  Software AG announced Monday that it has purchased MDM (master data management) vendor Data Foundations, and has plans to link that technology to its portfolio of BPM (business process management) and other middleware technologies. Terms were not disclosed.

• Two ways to build a better IT strategy

  Scenario: After driving great improvements in IT efficiency, a Fortune 500 company is now ready to treat data as a true corporate asset and grow beyond its tactical approach to technology planning. The CIO needs to develop strong data governance and data-management capabilities, and, most importantly, a long-term technology strategy. Yet she doesn't have the skilled staff for this kind of work. What's the best way to accomplish this part of the plan?

• How Microsoft PowerPivot will disrupt BI

  Could the age of self-service BI (business intelligence) finally be near? And, if so, are organizations ready?

• Gartner: Web content management a billion-dollar business

  In its August issue, Wired magazine proclaimed that the Web is on the wane, but for the business world, the Web seems to be only growing more important.

• Oracle data grid scales .NET to new heights

  A new version of Oracle's data grid software will allow Microsoft .NET applications to scale to the same large multi-server environments long enjoyed by Java enterprise applications, according to Oracle.

• EMC-Greenplum deal could precede more consolidation

  EMC's announcement this week of plans to purchase data warehousing vendor Greenplum represents a harbinger of things to come for that market, as well as related areas like BI (business intelligence) and data integration, according to some analysts.

• New Postgres to add the polish

  With the impending release of version 9.0 of the open-source Postgres database, due in mid-August, the developers behind the project are hoping that the new features will attract more interest from enterprises.

• Microsoft links free SQL database with ASP .Net

  Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a Microsoft official said this week.

• Cloudera preps Hadoop for the enterprise

  Cloudera has unveiled a new set of Hadoop management tools, called Cloudera Enterprise, that the company will offer for an annual subscription fee, it announced on Tuesday. It has also updated its open-source distribution package of Hadoop.

• Tool promises master data management for the masses

  Kalido on Tuesday said an upcoming version of its Information Engine platform will include a user interface that makes it easier for average users to explore master data, spot errors and get them fixed.

• Good master data management needs a focus on data

  To engineers at oil and gas exploration and development company Nexen Inc., having access to information means being able to think in terms of concrete data and not barrels of gas.

• Talend eyes master data management, parallelism

  Open source data integration vendor Talend is planning to release a master data management product by the end of the year, as well as to offer a massively parallel processing architecture in current products, according to company executives.