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The adoption of cloud computing will only exacerbate the need for master data management – and, ironically enough, make MDM harder and more expensive more quickly, according to David Linthicum, an SO... More >
Articles about Web 2.0 and the enterprise tend to focus on software and business: What/how can enterprises learn from/use Web 2.0? But recently, Lori MacVittie, who writes a blog called “Two D... More >
The telecom industry is working to simplify integration for itself and make things easier for developers and other companies using SaaS and Web 2.0. Essentially, the telcos hope to apply SOA'... More >
I should probably be an adult and find you something really serious today – something about how SOA is helping to intermediate between warring factions in the Middle East or how integration is key to... More >
Evan Levy brings up an overlooked data conundrum in his Information Management column this week . He observes that most IT departments model their business analyst roles around transactional or opera... More >
I am not among those who think government agencies never do anything right. In fact, I think most government agencies do a pretty darn good job. Let's get that clear from the get-go. But I als... More >
It seems SOA adopters are more likely to find success in their second or third year – and after a bit of tailoring SOA to meet your busines needs, according to JP Morgenthal, the Tech Evangelist blog... More >
If you want to boost your chance of success with SOA, start with the data, advises David Linthicum. In an August 20 post on Informatica's Perspectives blog, Linthicum says straight-out that on... More >
It's often true of humankind that we become so engaged in figuring out if we can do something, we forget to ask whether we should – or, at least, to give an honest consideration of how our accomplis... More >
Complex event processing engines can address several tricky, important business problems, including fraud detection, real-time customer service, monitoring market trends and real-time data analysis ... More >
The SOA Consortium and CIO magazine recently announced the winner of the SOA Case Study Competition and, once again, reading the case study, I'm struck by how well SOA works to extend your business ... More >
Pssst. Hey, you, in IT – I've got a message for you. You listening? Watch your back – the marketing people are plotting against you. How do I know? Well, for one, I found where one of t... More >
It's pretty basic to say that you can't expect success with business intelligence and other data-based initiatives without a focus on data quality. That's a given. But recently, it seems I'm seeing m... More >
TechTarget published a detailed look at how one company is handling data integration as its cloud portfolio grows . The piece ran on TechTarget's Oracle subsite, and the company involved ulti... More >
I'm a huge fan of online shopping. So, you can bet that if I'm shopping at the physical store, I've already visited the Web site. And yet, I'm often asked the same darn questions I answered on its si... More >
When it became clear cloud computing and software-as-a-service would emerge as serious options, SOA bloggers and analysts spent a bit of time exploring how internal SOA efforts would work with cloud ... More >
No doubt you've heard of semantic data integration – or, at least, you have if you read this blog regularly. Hint, hint. It's all fine and well to read about something, but sometimes you've go... More >
When it comes to SaaS, two key issues give companies pause: security and integration. In a 2008 survey of companies NOT adopting SaaS, Forrester found 65 percent cited integration as their chi... More >
searchSOA.com recently ran a five-part series examining how master data management fits with SOA . The answer, at least for SOA, is pretty straightforward: MDM can help solve that dirty data proble... More >
Often, when I read about an integration challenge, the experts will say it's really not so much a technology issue as a business rules or process problem. It seems to me health care is an exce... More >
I'm not generally much on vendor-specific webinars. I think they're great if you're shopping for a specific solution, but they're hardly a non-biased source of information, particularly if you're try... More >
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