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Unless you've been living in a hole this week – or fighting a revolution – you probably heard about Oracle's release of Fusion 11g, its middleware offering. Fusion11g is all over the tech press, and... More >
The Australia-based IT Channel site, ARN, recently ran a package on SaaS and why it's succeeding now – as opposed to the sad failure of its earlier incarnation, ASPs. While the feature artic... More >
I believe in motivational posters. When I was the editor of a college newspaper, I found a comic book picture of a vampire leaping onto a fallen victim, who looked frightened and helpless. I s... More >
The Truth about Tape - Nine Myths to ReconsiderThis white paper takes a close look at the myths about tape storage and shines new light on them.
Data Quality and Identity ResolutionThis white paper describes how identity resolution complements and extends the application of data quality and data integration processes into business applications.
Data silos are inevitable, according to Lyn Robison of the Burton Group. Silos are a natural part of decentralized IT systems, he argues, existing not just because of decentralized information system... More >
Times are tough all over, so I was recently assessing the fees I paid for telecommunications costs. I rang up the local cable company with cancellation on my mind. No problem. They immediately... More >
At one point, the big promise with service-oriented architecture was reuse. Everybody I talked to used Legos as an analogy for SOA . Just as you can reuse the same Lego pieces in various building pr... More >
Gartner analyst Andrew White recently posted a “tale of two MDM initiatives ,” from which he reaches two conclusions: It's very, very hard to succeed with master data management when you don't... More >
What if we rethought integration? What if, instead of individual projects and technology solutions, enterprises took a holistic approach to data integration? How would that look? Rick S... More >
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Service-oriented integration is definitely NOT the same thing as using Web services, or, God forbid, an ESB for integration. That's more or less what a recent ZapThink col... More >
These days, everything is going green. First it was light bulbs, then cars, then IT and, surprise, last week, even Twitter avatars went green . But data integration? Really? ( Loraine skept... More >
There's no doubt about it – CIOs would like to get information under control. The conflicting numbers resolved, the misspelled names corrected, the duplicate records gone – it's like the Promised Lan... More >
Eons ago – like, in 2001 – I worked for TechRepublic, which, briefly, was owned by Gartner. So for awhile, I interviewed a lot of Gartner analysts. One of their favorite maxims at the time was to “pi... More >
Can the Web teach business IT – even enterprise IT – about integration? Traditionally, the logic has been that Web technologies and approaches are great for the Web – but not for internal, di... More >
Google isn't saying Wave will compete with Sharepoint – but then again, it doesn't have to. After seeing Wave's potential for document collaboration and a well-placed comment about how Wave's opennes... More >
Forrester Research's “ The State Of Enterprise Software: 2009 ” is generating a lot of headline buzz this week – but after reading every news article I can find on it thus far, I'm struggling to figu... More >
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