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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 >
January 18, 2012
Finding Your Data Pain Points
Experts say you can’t wait for that "ah-ha" moment in data governance ; you’ve got to take action. But that doesn’t mean you go off willy-nilly without a plan. You’ll often see an admonishment to ... More >
January 17, 2012
Don’t Abandon Fundamentals When Developing in the Cloud
Moving to the cloud can make a lot of things easier, but it doesn’t get your development team off the hook for integration or good architecture, warns one CIO. Pradip Sitaram, the CIO for Ente... More >
January 16, 2012
The New Vision for MDM: Focus Shifts to Multidomain
Companies want multidomain master data management. So much so, says Gartner in a recent report, they’re beginning to trade “best-of-breed capabilities” for “good-enough capabilities" to get it. ... More >
January 13, 2012
Reasons for Moving to the Cloud — and Questions to Ask First
“The Cloud eliminates the need for IT to worry about paying for your future updates in terms of software and hardware, but what will your staff use for coasters?” Marcy Hoffman, a vice president of c... More >
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