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Judy Ko of Informatica has a money-saving tip for those of you under a cash crunch out there: Stop thinking project-to-project on data integration and standardize your data-integration approach acros... More >
One of the accusations occasionally leveled against service-oriented architecture is it doesn't live up to the organization's expectations. A recent blog post by Gartner analyst Andrew White offers a... More >
What's the most interesting data-integration problem imaginable? Alon Halevy, a former computer science professor at the University of Washington, believes it's integrating the Web. And by Web... More >
I often interview vendors, and one question I like to ask is who they consider their competition to be. PR people hate this question because the last thing you want is your company talking about the ... More >
Information Week recently surveyed 270 business technology professionals about the state of service-oriented architecture, and their assessment of the situation is that, while SOA is experiencing tr... More >
Remember a few weeks ago when I asked what's the cloud, if not a collection of services offered via Web protocol – the real question being, how is the cloud that different from SOA? No? Well, I did. ... More >
For a long time now, one of the big challenges for service-oriented architecture advocates has been defining metrics for measuring SOA 's success or failure. And, of course, if you can't define the ... More >
Todd Biske, an enterprise architect and blogger, is admonishing readers not to go on the corporate equivalent of an IT starvation diet . “Priorities have shifted to where cost containment and cuttin... More >
I gotta admit: I have serious reservations about master data management. Oh, certainly I see the need for master data management. Of course you need to resolve conflicts and create a single vi... More >
I've covered integration for IT Business Edge for nearly two years. In all that time, news about enterprise information integration – better known as EII – has been almost non-existent. OK, su... More >
Yesterday, when I wrote about making money via cloud computing , I couldn't help but recall Lando Calrissian and Bespin's Cloud City from the Empire Strikes Back. I'm sure you'll remember Clo... More >
InfoWorld took a look at the SOA-cloud connection this week, querying representatives from some major tech players, including Microsoft, SUN, HP and IBM. The big take-away here seems to be t... More >
I've always been a bit unclear about why integration and SOA were such a taboo connection for some pundits. I mean, come on – it makes sense. Why would you want to do point-to-point integrat... More >
Last fall, pundits questioned whether the recession would have a positive or negative impact on SOA . This January, SOA was pronounced dead by the Burton Group . They even held a wake . &nb... More >
Open source integration and middleware solutions are generating a lot more interest these days, in part because of the economy and in part because several European governments – and possibly the Oba... More >
This week, there were two standard announcements, one involving enterprise architecture and the other Web services . First, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) updated The Open Gro... More >
Yesterday I wrote about the different styles of master data management . It can be pretty confusing, as I mentioned. So, today I wanted to share an item that might help simplify your choices. ... More >
Last month, I wrote a blog post on Tips for Succeeding with MDM or Data Quality Initiatives . Cliff Longman - I assume it's the same Cliff Longman who is the CTO for master data management (MDM) sol... More >
Should your master data management (MDM) system be separate from your enterprise resource planning (ERP ) system? I can honestly say I'd never really thought about it. But if you're inclined t... More >
As the last pure-play ETL company, Informatica continues to be of interest in integration circles, which always seem to wonder whether this will be the year Informatica is acquired by a bigger ve... More >
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