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IPO investments will filter down

Startups bursting out all over

Live long and prosper

Tell-tale signs of software's imminent obsolescence

Database wars enter a new phase

Old hands and newcomers alike must turn their attention towards building better optimisers

An application of quality

Mobile apps must be useful, functional and 100 per cent reliable

Procure for all ills

Buying enterprise software isn't like ordering stationery as canny vendors often make up the price and the rules

Classy Wareing's Berkeley bargain

CIO columnist and food writer Andy Hayler shares his favourite venues for important business meetings

The rise and rise of big data

Data warehousing software sparks into life

The missing link in data quality

Earning board support for data managament projects

Gauging data governance

Some handy guidelines on how to push through an effective master data strategy

A data quality conundrum

Data quality industry has names and addresses down correctly, but is failing to tackle more important types of data

Master chef stars at Le Gavroche

Andy Hayler enjoys business lunch at the Roux family’s London base

Square meal is classic delight

Andy Hayler finds London's The Square offers high-end classical French cuisine at a well-balanced price by Mayfair standards

The real doyen of Paris restaurants

Andy Hayler crosses the channel to France to share one of Paris's best business lunch venues

Lunch at the Lanesborough

Andy Hayler enjoys a light business lunch amid art deco at Apsleys

Outsourcing: a source of weakness?

Handing systems development and management over to a third party can leave your company without vital skills

Hand master data decisions back to the business

Master data management is booming, but the key to MDM success lies not in more technology, but in handing decisions back to the business

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Reading between the lines

A long and winding roadmap

Industry giants have been busy snapping up master data management tools

Lots in store for warehousing

Databases get interesting...

Too much information?

Information management projects can give a clearer view of the customer and boost profitability. But the CIO must take a lead





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