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Do you need help sorting out the various architectural standards for SOA? Not sure if you're an an OASIS, OMG or The Open Group kinda company? Wouldn't it be nice if there were a quick Faceboo... More >
I've written about integration for more than two years, but I have to say in that whole time, I've seldom seen posts about how to hire qualified integration staff. Isn't that odd? Maybe I'm ju... More >
One of the things I try to do as a business technology blogger is to watch out for marketing trends so I can give you a heads up, preferably before the vendors' sales teams come calling. So wh... More >
The big integration news this week is Oracle's announcement it will acquire GoldenGate Software, a real-time data integration (aka, change data capture) company based in San Francisco. Thursday, Orac... More >
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is quoted in an InformationWeek article this week as saying IT integration is a "top priority" for the company right now. You may remember that last year, Wells Far... More >
Informatica's Ash Parikh is a man on a mission: He thinks it's time companies gave data first consideration when moving to a service-oriented architecture. This isn't surprising, since Parikh ... More >
There's a new leader in the Master Data Management space, according to the recently updated Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM for Customer Data.” Initiate Systems joined perennials Oracle Siebel UCM and... More >
Last month, Burton Group analyst Richard Watson took a critical look at how reuse of services in SOA is calculated . He concluded that these calculations often overstate the savings you can use from... More >
It's a lazy Friday in my neck of the woods. The skies are overcast, you can feel the rain coming and I'm feeling pretty uninspired to do the things I should be doing. So when I first read Rick... More >
After four years of evaluating Sharepoint, Peter Campbell , the Director of IT at Earthjustice , decided to pass on the Microsoft portal/content management/team colloboration software. He recently ... More >
Data is one of those tiny details that's easy to forget when you're switching to a new system. Informatica CIO Tony Young says it's the cause of most ERP failures and “one of the higher-risk componen... More >
If I could get my crystal ball to work, I know exactly what I'd ask it. And then once it had answered that question , my next query would be: Who will integrate the cloud? This is the questio... More >
Master data management is now a mainstream concept, but before it's widely embraced, MDM has to shake its youthful bad rep for failure and inadequate ROIs, according to a recent CIO Zone article &nb... More >
Given the results of recent Gartner research, software-as-a-service providers might want to focus more on integration problems – assuming, of course, they want to be contenders in the enterprise. &nb... More >
Erik Dörnenburg is a software developer who loves to find cool ways to visually demonstrate code and architecture. Recently, he consulted on a project with a very simple plan – use an ESB to ... More >
Despite the fact that legacy integration is a major driver for SOA, most experts agree integration shouldn't be the main reason for committing to SOA. But blogger and M-Dot Chief Architect Mi... More >
“I will start with the assertion that different business stakeholders require different types of information,” begins Robert Abate in a recent Information Management blog post on Business Intelligen... More >
You know what's a bad use of time and money? Having engineers spend 50-80 percent of their time tinkering with data integration and quality, that's what. Yet, that's basically what Nexen, an o... More >
Unless you've been living in a hole this week – or fighting a revolution – you probably heard about Oracle's release of Fusion 11g, its middleware offering. Fusion11g is all over the tech press, and... More >
The Australia-based IT Channel site, ARN, recently ran a package on SaaS and why it's succeeding now – as opposed to the sad failure of its earlier incarnation, ASPs. While the feature artic... More >
I believe in motivational posters. When I was the editor of a college newspaper, I found a comic book picture of a vampire leaping onto a fallen victim, who looked frightened and helpless. I s... More >
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