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February 9, 2012

Pentaho's Unique Integration Hadoop Play

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 >

February 8, 2012

Getting Down to Earth About Cloud Integration

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 >

February 7, 2012

New Partnerships Create Better Customer Data via the Cloud

“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 >

Free Network Monitoring for up to 100 Devices: Foglight NMS

This free software trial delivers a robust, highly scalable solution for increasing network performance and availability, while at the same time improving IT efficiency through its easy-to-use interface.

Information Integration: Effective Data Governance at the Speed of Business

In 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.

February 5, 2012

One Reason to Think About Modeling? Freedom from Vendor Lock-in

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 >

February 3, 2012

Exploring Hadoop's Real-Time Potential

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 >

February 2, 2012

Putting Big Data on Pause

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 >

February 1, 2012

Just the Stats: Building Better Business Intelligence

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 >

January 31, 2012

Fight for MDM and Governance: Your Job May Depend On It

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 >

Study Finds Integration Big Challenge for Analyzing Big Data

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 >

January 30, 2012

Mainstreaming Big Data

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 >

January 27, 2012

Everybody Wins When You Put Data to Work

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 >

January 25, 2012

Move to Cloud Prompts Companies to Give Up on Custom Integration

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 >

January 24, 2012

New Service Synchronizes Online CRM Data with On-Premise Apps

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 >

January 23, 2012

Revisiting the Portal Problem

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 >

January 19, 2012

Finding Long-term Success in Data Governance

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 >

Human Capital Management

Tips, tools, and expert commentary to help you get the most from your company's most valuable asset - its employees.

Tape and Archive Storage

Oracle’s proven StorageTek tape and library solutions help you manage complexity, control costs, and deliver on service level agreements.

Data Warehousing

Comprehensive storage solutions for better data access and retrieval, leading to better-informed business decisions.

Server Management

Management tips and product information to leverage the best value from your server investment.