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The newest Web 2.0 phenom to catch the attention of the blogosphere is Twitter, which has been around for about a year but really took off at the March South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.... More >
The conventional wisdom is that while SOA can support new levels of agility for large businesses, the key benefit to push when selling SOA to upper management is reuse. "Build once, use many times." ... More >
IBM made a big splash with its introduction of Dynamic Data Warehousing -- and with good reason. Whatever the underlying technology may be -- continuous trickle-feeding of data is part of it -- t... More >
It wasn't so long ago that people who wanted information within an enterprise had to consult the " priests of BI " to get what they needed. And in fact, most companies still think BI is too hard to ... More >
Many readers will remember the Microsoft Open XML flap in Massachusetts , where then-CIO Peter Quinn proposed moving the state to mandatory use of Open Document Format (ODF), the format that is love... More >
First we had service-oriented architecture (the familiar SOA), now we're getting "service-oriented infrastructure (SOI)," meaning people in the IT world are starting to think seriously about what it ... More >
The swings in IT between centralization and decentralization are well known. The most recent extreme of decentralization came in the late 1980s, when rogue PCs could be found in virtually every depar... More >
The media's reaction to Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion demonstrates once again that booty is in the eye of the beholder. Oracle paid a 21 percent premium over the stock's closing price on the day o... More >
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