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July 3, 2009

The Executive Summary on Oracle's Fusion 11G

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 >

July 2, 2009

Will You Still Need Systems Integrators with SaaS?

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 >

July 1, 2009

Rules and Commandments for Make-Your-Own Integration Poster

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 Reconsider

This white paper takes a close look at the myths about tape storage and shines new light on them.

Data Quality and Identity Resolution

This white paper describes how identity resolution complements and extends the application of data quality and data integration processes into business applications.

June 30, 2009

Burton Group: Why Bust Data Silos When You Can Bridge Them?

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 >

June 29, 2009

A Vendor 'Tax' on Integration? You Betcha.

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 >

Savings from Reusing Services Oversold and Overpromised

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 >

June 25, 2009

Are You Really Ready to Buy a Master Data Management Tool?

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 >

June 24, 2009

A Holistic, Business Approach to Data Integration

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 >

June 23, 2009

The Business Potential of Integration Based on SOA

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 >

June 22, 2009

Free Webinars Focus on SOA Cost Savings, Integration Strategy and Going Green

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 >

June 19, 2009

MDM: With Great Promise, Comes Great Work

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 >

June 18, 2009

The Forgotten Lesson of Low-Hanging Fruit

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 >

June 17, 2009

Apply Web Solutions to Enterprise Integration

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 >

June 16, 2009

Wave vs. SharePoint: Big Splash or Tiny Ripple?

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 >

June 15, 2009

What Business Wants from IT: Squeeze Blood from Turnip?

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 >