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My husband recently bought a new planner, “filled with hope and promise for the New Year,” he shared on the phone. I understood completely. Along with our passion for office supplies and geek movies,... More >
With statistics, it's all how you slice them – or, at least, where you focus your attention. We know this, and yet, statistics are the lifeblood of so much advice and so many investments. I wa... More >
Often, when people talk about integration, they're essentially focused on the software. Oh, sure, hardware plays a role – and there's always the integration appliance market, but basically we're talk... More >
Judith Hurwitz, president of the consulting firm Hurwitz & Associates, is co-author of the recently published “Cloud Computing for Dummies.” Earlier this month, she graciously agreed to talk wit... More >
A TDWI article recently made a case for why MDM is poised to really take off in 2010 . It quotes Jill Dyche of Baseline Consulting, who says MDM is starting to ramp back up after the recession threw... More >
There’s been a lot of hoopla over Generation Y and their wish for – nay, demand for – Web 2.0 functions in business. “They’ll expect it,” we’ve been warned. Yeah, well I’m Generation X, the g... More >
Open source data integration tools are more widely adopted than open source Business Intelligence tools – despite the fact open source BI has been around longer, according to a recent report publishe... More >
Could the next systems integrator you hire be Verizon? If you're the Army Reserve, the answer is a definite yes. Verizon just nabbed a contract from the Army Reserve to provide managed service... More >
I'm not big on making predictions. Read them? Sure. But making them? I think that's a bad move for someone whose Magic Eight Ball was forever stuck on “Ask again later.” However, there is one ... More >
One of the first times – and possibly the first time – I heard about master data management, I was interviewing Karen Leightell, senior product manager for IBM Master Data Management Solution Group.... More >
MindTouch announced a new tool for integrating applications this week called Business Application Integration. This may surprise you if you're familiar with MindTouch's other products, which t... More >
If the economy improves, the powers-that-be believe 2010 could be a huge year for integration-related projects. But more money isn't the main driver for many of these projects and initiatives. The co... More >
What do Enterprise 2.0 and SOA have in common? Fuzzy metrics, that's what. SOA has always had a metrics problem. At first, no one knew how to measure SOA or calculate its ROI. Then the ... More >
One thing I like to do when I use Twitter is to search for a person's name and see if they have a Twitter account. I mostly use Google's search engine, so I put in the name and “Twitter.” If they hav... More >
James Governor, aka Monkchips, is one of my favorite people to follow on Twitter , just below "Justin's" tweets about his dad and Laura Ingalls Wilder , and just above enterprise architect James ... More >
Tis the season for acquisitions – and not just around the menorah or under the tree. The economy and financial-sector crisis have made mergers and acquisitions a hot topic this year - and not just in... More >
Over the past four or five months, I've been on a bit of an open application programming interface (API) kick. And, of course, I've written about it as I've went along, including posts on the... More >
Data migration can be a key component of data integration, and so, it's among the topics I watch. To be honest, most of what I find focuses on technical issues that are better left to the data wareho... More >
In November, Gartner released a fourth-quarter “refresh” of its "Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools,” and guess what? I've found free copies of the $1,995 report . Informatica and Ta... More >
Everybody loves a technology success story, and here at IT Business Edge, we particularly like the ones that show how IT can transform the business. It's probably why I'm not a big Nick Carr fan. I t... More >
So, I'm strolling along the Intertubes today when I stumble across this little item, which seems to have first appeared on InformationWeek but is spreading like kudzu along a southern highway: "Micro... More >
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