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I have to say, I had a lot of fun this year covering integration, particularly as it relates to data management. What other topic would let me praise the gravitas of flying squirrels , read a blog c... More >
It doesn’t take a crystal ball to know that some trends from 2011 will still be big in 2012. I don’t expect Big Data to go away anytime soon, master data management will still be a hot topic, and clo... More >
Big Data, Hadoop, cloud, MDM — these were the data management topics that dominated headlines in 2011. But as I looked back over a year’s posts about integration and all its related disciplines, what... More >
I’m a word person, but even I know that sometimes, a number or statistic can tell a whole story by itself. So occasionally throughout the year, I would write a post called “Just the Stats” and share ... More >
There are a lot of obvious choices for the top IT architecture stories of 2011. I suspect most people would rank cloud — private, public and hybrid — neck and neck with Big Data trends as the top IT ... More >
IT leaders are busy, particularly at the end of the year, with all the pressing year-end reports and holiday brunches. Who has time to shop for that perfect gift for the integration team? Don’... More >
Earlier this month, I wrote about BPM’s march toward the data integration stack . The convergence is happening — as convergences are wont to do — from both directions, with BPM tools adding data cap... More >
There’s a lot of confusion about Hadoop right now among business intelligence and data warehouse professionals, according to TDWI. But don't worry — you'll soon figure it out, thanks in part to the f... More >
During my years of writing on this blog, I've tried to say and show in many ways the real value of integration to organizations. At roughly 500 words a day — often more — I've tried to preach the goo... More >
It seems like there was a lot more buzz in 2010 about the big vendor integration plays in the data stack than in 2011. I’m talking about the big integration moves, the “one stack to bind them” plays ... More >
Data integration vendors are no slouches when it comes to improving their tools. Judging by my inbox, that appears to be all they do. Seriously, I can’t imagine any other market does as many u... More >
Could the cloud be the catalyst for better integration solutions? Absolutely, according to a recent piece penned by Hollis Tibbetts, a middleware and data management expert who writes for eBizQ. &nbs... More >
What would change if integration were handled as an enterprise-wide strategy, instead of a one-off part of projects? I asked that question to Ken Vollmer recently. Vollmer is a principal analy... More >
Once upon a time, every single aspect of service-oriented architecture was hotly debated, from what it meant to how to do it (SOAP versus REST) to whether it was alive or dead as a concept. Bu... More >
A TeaLeaf survey back in 2008 showed how many call centers lacked integration with and insight into the company’s websites . This turned customers off cold, because too often, customer service was a... More >
Today, data integration company SnapLogic and MDM provider Orchestra Networks launched their new master data management cloud offering , Smartdatagovernance.com . Orchestra Networks had anno... More >
Integration isn’t one-size-fits-all. There are actually a lot of options about how you can handle integration, depending on your needs, but it can be a bit confusing if you don’t deal with it day in ... More >
Business process management has always been in a class by itself. As a technology, it’s middleware — at least, according to research groups that classify such things. Gartner notes that its BPM tools... More >
Twine doesn’t look like much. It’s shorter than a pencil and looks like a square of sky-blue glass or maybe a translucent bar of soap. Its marketing tagline is simple: "Listen to your world, t... More >
Is data governance an executive-level problem? Ideally, sure. Why not? After all, who controls and accesses data isn’t just an exercise in power; it can have business, even legal, ramification... More >
Recently, the TDWI published a report on emerging technologies and trends in business intelligence and analytics . David Stodder, director of TDWI research for business intelligence, highlighted wh... More >
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