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Tagging seems like an unlikely replacement for integration, but apparently, it's working out just fine for the Department of Defense. If you think you've got information overload problems, con... More >
When it comes to IT, there are three mysteries that have long puzzled me, and probably many of you: Why do I have to tell Windows to stop what it's doing and shut down six times before it actually do... More >
Seth Grimes isn't impressed with Gartner's recent pronouncement that companies could save $500,000 on data-integration costs by eliminating redundant tools and adopting a shared-services model. &nb... More >
Mashups seem to be finding their place in the nooks and crannies of enterprise IT. As Google and its Android mobile platform , mashups – when combined with SOA – can be used for integrating l... More >
Wednesday, I joked that Joe McKendrick had kicked off the quarterly “how to calculate SOA's ROI” discussion with his recent post on how to measure SOA's performance . SOA expert and blogger... More >
IT hates to talk about dollar amounts when it comes to integration projects, but push through your dislike, because it's a fair question for the business to ask, according to David Linthicum, a SOA a... More >
Determining SOA's return on investment is a topic my newspaper editor would have termed an "evergreen" story – and a perennial story. It's evergreen in that it's always timely, and perennial in that... More >
IT Business Edge reader and consultant Frank Millar suggested that if the U.S. government wants to succeed with a national electronic medical records (EMR) system, it should study Kaiser Permanente's... More >
It can be tricky to figure out how much money you'll save from an integration project. So, I wonder: Would you feel good if you knew your integration project would actually mean an additional $3 mill... More >
I keep reading things that tell me how secure the cloud is. The arguments usually run along these lines: Cloud vendors know more about security than you do, because security so critical to their busi... More >
Would you knowingly and willingly spend $20 million for a few integration projects? Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes is quoted in a recent SearchCIO.com article as saying this is what ... More >
A better electronic medical records system seems like a great idea. In fact, I've long wondered why I couldn't carry a little smart card or USB drive for all of my medical records, so that wherever I... More >
A recent TDWI report found that operational data integration projects encounter a number of barriers to success, including poor data quality, a lack of time and problems identifying a clear ROI. &n... More >
I don't normally go in for Webinars where the vendor leads the discussion, because I fear they'll turn into one long advertisement and you'll blame me for losing an hour of your life. Sometime... More >
I found possibly the coolest SOA thing ever this week. I don't get to say that a lot ... or, really, ever, so you can believe this is truly neat. Actually, I have an IT Business Edge reader wh... More >
No doubt by now you've heard Salesforce.com plans to add Twitter to its Service cloud solution and offer integration with customer data to subscribers soon. If you read the news you know the b... More >
Recently, Microsoft announced plans to consolidate its data storage and Web services business units . While most saw this as a sign of the bad economic times, Joe McKendrick thinks maybe it's actua... More >
Has SOA transcended its own death and reached a state of enlightenment? Yessir. It has, at least according to a recent Gartner pronouncement . It's the perfect rites-of-spring story, r... More >
Are you robbing your business intelligence work for operational data integration? Operational data integration is the integration work you do for consolidation, collocation, migration, upgrading or s... More >
Back in the good old days, when the newspaper still carried more than six help wanted ads, my husband and I had a Sunday morning tradition of reading the technology section out loud, with an e... More >
Eric Koch, a CTO who blogs at IT Toolbox, made an intriguing observation on his blog yesterday. He wrote about a recent TechTarget SOA adoption survey which showed integration is the most cited r... More >
My friends sometimes jokingly call me Cassandra, after the famous soothsayer of Troy. You may recall that Apollo cursed her so that no one would believe her predictions. It's because I often s... More >
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