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By now we know that every integration and BI vendor in the place is hustling to connect with Hadoop. But there are some interesting plays emerging from the Big Data hype cycle. One exam... More >
I came from a family of farmers — and not the milk-cows and raise-organic-chicken kind of farmers. My family, on both sides, were tobacco farmers, which meant hard, dirty work. Tobacco stains your ha... More >
“I believe that data quality will be found in the cloud,” data quality and MDM expert Henrik Liliendahl Sørensen wrote back in 2010 . Somebody give that man a fortune cookie because, sure enough, da... More >
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Information Integration: Effective Data Governance at the Speed of BusinessIn this webcast, join experts from IBM as they discuss information-intensive solutions that enable comprehensive data discovery and delivery to leverage information assets and better align IT with the needs of the business.
Let’s face it. Business and IT executives have more important things to think about than modeling languages. But for a moment, consider this: If the only modeling tools you use are proprietary soluti... More >
One of the more promising applications of Hadoop and other Big Data solutions is the ability to deliver information in real time. It’s not mentioned often, which is unfortunate, because it’s really a... More >
Daniel W. Rasmus is exactly the kind of guy you’d expect to be excited about Big Data. The intelligent systems engineer is a “strategist who helps clients put their future in context” using “scenario... More >
Organizations are keen to make smarter decisions, and to do that, they’re focusing on the data served up by business intelligence solutions. The question is: Are these BI tools and the infrastructure... More >
You want one reason to get serious about information governance? Here’s one: your job. Twenty percent of CIOs in regulated industries will lose their jobs because they failed to successfully i... More >
Integration is a major issue when it comes to analyzing Big Data, according to a recent report by Ventana Research. Almost two thirds of participants in the benchmark study said integration is a majo... More >
How would it change your business if you — or your sales team — could just “rent” Big Data? It’s not as far off as it sounds. The New York Times' blog Bits recently claimed Amazon is rese... More >
Your DBAs know it. Probably your application development team knows it. And deep down, front-line employees suspect it: The data is there to make decisions by facts. But creating a data-driven... More >
Cloud is driving growth for data integration vendor Pervasive Software — which isn't surprising. But what is surprising is that 65 percent of the integration work is still on-premise, according to La... More >
When it comes to integration, Scribe doesn’t try to be all connectors to all things. It’s long been focused on the CRM and ERP space, so when it entered the cloud last year with Scribe Online, it foc... More >
Whatever happened to the portal? It used to have such great promise. You may recall portals were something of an integration "promised land." If a company had a portal, employees would have on... More >
Yesterday, I shared advice from data experts on how to find your data pain points and leverage that into a business case for data governance. Alas, that’s no guarantee your data governance plan wil... More >
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