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If you've never seen " O Brother, Where Art Thou ," by the Coen Brothers, you should. Not only does it include some amazing Bluegrass music -- which originated in my home state , thank you very much... More >
Every few months, I run across some post or article noting that SOA is great for application integration, but pondering how it can relate to data integration. The question is, can data be service-ena... More >
I began to suspect I was in the wrong business about 13 years ago, when I was an entry-level reporter at a semi-daily newspaper. Sure, I'd been warned I wouldn't make money as a journalist -- but I s... More >
Craig Sutter, technical director for VetSource, doesn't really care whether you or anybody else thinks about the company's SOA implementation. Yes, it uses an ESB -- Mule's Open Source ESB, thanks fo... More >
Cast Iron unveiled the iA4000 series this week, a new appliance that steps up the company's offering by adding a data cleansing tool and more integration support for software-as-a-service products.... More >
SnapLogic announced this week it's offering a SugarCRM Solution Pack extension to its data integration framework. For those of you not familiar with SnapLogic, it's an open source product that uses... More >
MindTouch is hoping to capture the top spot as a collaborative wiki platform with a new release of Deki, the "Kilen Woods" version. Its not-so-secret weapon against top competitor MediaWiki: integrat... More >
Continuing yesterday's theme on old school data integration tools , today I learned something interesting about ETL tools: More companies are deploying ETL (extract, transform, load) tools outside t... More >
It's hard to resist the allure of new technology and new tech ideas. After all, most people are familiar with the older technology so, as a writer, it's a guessing game to decide what's news and what... More >
The ESB (enterprise service bus) is perhaps the most controversial of tools used for integration and SOA. I say perhaps only because I could've missed something -- but I really can't think of any oth... More >
Remember that old Frank Sinatra song that chided "Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other?" That sou... More >
Intelligence Enterprise Editor-in-Chief Doug Henschen gave his analysis of Oracle's new offering , the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management. He seems impressed with the EPM, which brin... More >
I've had a hard time understanding what Microsoft's Oslo would offer companies -- and I even did an e-mail Q&A with Microsoft's Burley Kawasaki , director of product management in the Connected ... More >
ebizQ is hosting a discussion tomorrow on an increasingly hot topic: MDM as a critical enabler for SOA . It's the critical part that really sells it, I think. MDM as not only a SOA-enabler, ... More >
Integration isn't exactly what you'd call a cool technology. Lately, it seems to be becoming even more uncool. Maybe it's just the summertime blues, maybe it's an editorial hangover from the F... More >
I confess: I grew up with MacIntosh computers and, frankly, I do love them. Ultimately, it was the Internet and my move to technology journalism that pried the Mac from my hands. Once PhotoSho... More >
MuleSource announced this week it's offering an open source SOA governance solution -- a timely move for MuleSource, given a recent Butler report linking SOA failure to a lack of governance. ... More >
There's a lot of talk about the viability of the CIO role , but sometimes, a CIO can make all the difference. And, as it turns out, this is particularly true with SOA implementations. ... More >
Master data management technologies can be a bit confusing. Some so-called MDM solutions are actually more focused on data integration or governance, others are more about business intelligence . Th... More >
Joe McKendrick's generated a bit of talk-back after his post, " Ten Ways to Tell It's Not SOA ." David Linthicum even added on to the list with a post of his own . Predictably, not everyone... More >
There's a new data integration player in town. expressor software is expected to ship a new product in mid-July. What makes expressor worth watching? According to this analysis by Dr. Dave Waddingto... More >
Ron Schmelzer is on a quest to get Microsoft to cowboy up and lead the way on SOA. I spoke with him last Friday about his recent ZapTake , succinctly titled, " The Inadequacy of Microsoft's SO... More >
Baseline Consulting Partner Jill Dyche made a good point in responding to my post last week about " IT's Penance for Integration Sins of the Past ." Mind you, I wasn't saying that IT had committed... More >
Last week, I questioned whether integration could be considered a strategic issue or whether it is essentially tactical . In weighing the value of integration as a "big picture" discipline, I refere... More >
Man, you can't go away for a weekend without some SOA vendor buying some other SOA guy out. If you read Friday's post , you saw Progress made headlines last week for a $162 million buyout dea... More >
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