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Tony Fisher had some surprising things to say about master data management during my recent interview with him.
Fisher is the president and CEO of DataFlux, which sells an MDM solution. He was a bit flummoxed about a CIO.com article that said CIOs see MDM as a chance to fix past data management sins, and he […]

It’s hard to get a handle on SaaS and whether it’s a smart move.
On the one hand, you’ve got people like Harry Debes, CEO of the ERP provider, Lawson Software, claiming that SaaS is doomed to collapse within two years. Debes recently issued this dire warning in a ZDNet Asia interview:
“This ‘on demand,’ SaaS phenomenon […]

I still believe in social networking and the potential of Web 2.0 — despite everything Facebook and MySpace have done to quell my initial enthusiasm.
So, in the spirit of Web 2.0 optimism, I’m passing along this announcement about the Integration Consortium’s recent Web site revamp. Normally, this wouldn’t be news, but in this case, they’ve […]

Apparently, I frustrated SOA Enterprise Architect Jean-Jacques Dubray with a recent post, “Integration, SOA, Whatever. It’s Always About the Business.” And boy, am I glad I did.
Dubray’s blog notes that he works for a large financial institution and that he “started working on SOA in 1998 at NEC Systems Laboratories. Since then, he has architected […]

It seems integration and SOA are intertwined for most companies, despite what the experts say about the connection being overhyped. You just can’t escape the integration value proposition of SOA. Maybe it is EAI Redux – I don’t know. But over and over again, I run across something new about SOA and integration.
The most recent […]