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Data silos are inevitable, according to Lyn Robison of the Burton Group. Silos are a natural part of decentralized IT systems, he argues, existing not just because of decentralized information system... More >
Times are tough all over, so I was recently assessing the fees I paid for telecommunications costs. I rang up the local cable company with cancellation on my mind. No problem. They immediately... More >
At one point, the big promise with service-oriented architecture was reuse. Everybody I talked to used Legos as an analogy for SOA . Just as you can reuse the same Lego pieces in various building pr... More >
Gartner analyst Andrew White recently posted a “tale of two MDM initiatives ,” from which he reaches two conclusions: It's very, very hard to succeed with master data management when you don't... More >
What if we rethought integration? What if, instead of individual projects and technology solutions, enterprises took a holistic approach to data integration? How would that look? Rick S... More >
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Service-oriented integration is definitely NOT the same thing as using Web services, or, God forbid, an ESB for integration. That's more or less what a recent ZapThink col... More >
These days, everything is going green. First it was light bulbs, then cars, then IT and, surprise, last week, even Twitter avatars went green . But data integration? Really? ( Loraine skept... More >
There's no doubt about it – CIOs would like to get information under control. The conflicting numbers resolved, the misspelled names corrected, the duplicate records gone – it's like the Promised Lan... More >
Eons ago – like, in 2001 – I worked for TechRepublic, which, briefly, was owned by Gartner. So for awhile, I interviewed a lot of Gartner analysts. One of their favorite maxims at the time was to “pi... More >
Can the Web teach business IT – even enterprise IT – about integration? Traditionally, the logic has been that Web technologies and approaches are great for the Web – but not for internal, di... More >
Google isn't saying Wave will compete with Sharepoint – but then again, it doesn't have to. After seeing Wave's potential for document collaboration and a well-placed comment about how Wave's opennes... More >
Forrester Research's “ The State Of Enterprise Software: 2009 ” is generating a lot of headline buzz this week – but after reading every news article I can find on it thus far, I'm struggling to figu... More >
Neil Ward-Dutton , research director at the UK-based Macehiter Ward-Dutton Advisors , recently called ROI a “minority sport” on Twitter. But Ward-Dutton recognized a bigger problem: IT does... More >
Joke: What do you get when the government decides to break down information silos? Punchline: Different silos. Funny, huh? Or rather, it would be, if it weren't actually true. The first... More >
“Could Google Wave be the holy grail for internal integration of enterprise apps , with two-way real-time updating?” Hutch Carpenter , the director of marketing for Spigit, asked this last we... More >
Lately, there's been a(nother) rash of articles about where SOA went wrong. From Gartner's accusations of a herd adoption mentality to Forrester's more expansive list of five reasons why pe... More >
By now, you've no doubt heard about the promising implications of the semantic Web and semantic technology. But, until recently, much of what was written about semantics described it as a near... More >
The most exciting integration story this year, in my humble opinion, is how semantic technology can be applied to silos. Until now, articles on this topic have been as rare as giant pandas. ... More >
Attention, bargain shoppers and frugal companies. If you'd like to have a data quality tool, but just can't spare the funds for a full solution, then I've found a deal for you. You can use you... More >
Here's big news for those of you interested in master data management, but turned off by its price tag: Consultant and IT director-writer Andy Hayler reports Microsoft will offer MDM capabilities bu... More >
To me, one of IT's great paradoxes is that even as it tackles data integration projects, it continues to create new data silos. Rick Sherman, a consultant with Athena IT Solutions, recently ad... More >
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