http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson * Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:05 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-20T19:55:05Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/is-integration-key-to-microsofts-success-in-the-cloud/?cs=37666 When I first started writing about technology, it seemed to me many companies had neglected one of the basic rules we all learned in kindergarten: Play well with others.   Somewhat dishearteningly, it seemed to work for them as a market strategy. microsoft cloud_computing application_integration data_integration enterprise_software enterprise_software_vendors Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:05 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/is-integration-key-to-microsofts-success-in-the-cloud/?cs=37666 2009-11-20T19:55:05Z 4 hours, 16 minutes ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/is-integration-key-to-microsofts-success-in-the-cloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37666 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/a-fresh-look-at-soa-governance/?cs=37629 Honestly, I'd rather write about anything besides governance, particularly SOA governance. I'm not sure what it is, but despite my high tolerance for tedious topics – I actually enjoyed covering planning and zoning as a journalist – the very term governance strategic_planning business_technology soa Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:56:38 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/a-fresh-look-at-soa-governance/?cs=37629 2009-11-19T20:56:38Z 1 day, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/a-fresh-look-at-soa-governance http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37629 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/data-integration-and-bi-the-high-cost-of-doing-nothing/?cs=37598 Increasingly, data integration and data quality initiatives go hand-in-hand. And with good reason: Experts say it costs $1 to verify a record at the source, $10 to later cleanse and de-dupe it, and $100 if nothing is done, according to a recent business_intelligence data_integration application_integration business_technology Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:23:22 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/data-integration-and-bi-the-high-cost-of-doing-nothing/?cs=37598 2009-11-18T20:23:22Z 2 days, 3 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/data-integration-and-bi-the-high-cost-of-doing-nothing http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37598 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-quiet-success-of-web-services-soa/?cs=37552 While experts debated the definition of service-oriented architecture, its state (alive or dead?) and the significance of ESBs for SOA, a funny thing happened. Service-oriented, if not SOA per se , quietly became ubiquitous, argues Hugh Taylor, author web_services business_development business_technology soa Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:24:14 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/the-quiet-success-of-web-services-soa/?cs=37552 2009-11-17T17:24:14Z 3 days, 6 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/the-quiet-success-of-web-services-soa http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37552 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/moving-to-the-cloud-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/?cs=37521 During a recent podcast, SearchSOA.com Jack Vaughan asked David Linthicum why, in his new book, he said that cloud computing could “devastate” enterprise IT in much the way the Web did .   It's a frightening word, “devastate,” and it's tempting to cloud_computing application_integration data_integration soa saas legacy_integration business_technology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:50:30 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/moving-to-the-cloud-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/?cs=37521 2009-11-16T16:50:30Z 4 days, 7 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/moving-to-the-cloud-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37521 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/oracle-integrates-goldengate-pervasive-offers-more-options-and-help-integrating-macs/?cs=37461 What is it with November and data-integration suites? I feel like I'm hearing a new announcement every day.   Well. To be fair, I've heard of four, and one's under embargo until next week.   Still. This week brought the unveiling of the new oracle web_services pervasive_software data_integration apple saas business_technology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:51:35 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/oracle-integrates-goldengate-pervasive-offers-more-options-and-help-integrating-macs/?cs=37461 2009-11-13T04:51:35Z 1 week, 19 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/oracle-integrates-goldengate-pervasive-offers-more-options-and-help-integrating-macs http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37461 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/informatica-9-whats-new-and-what-analysts-are-saying/?cs=37458 I've been scanning the headlines this week for news on Informatica 9, the company's new-and-improved data integration platform. At last count there were over 60 news items on the topic, so my goal here today is to hit the highlights quickly and data_integration soa informatica web_services informatica_9 business_technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:24:48 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/informatica-9-whats-new-and-what-analysts-are-saying/?cs=37458 2009-11-12T22:24:48Z 1 week, 1 day ago 2 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/informatica-9-whats-new-and-what-analysts-are-saying http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37458 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/could-the-problem-with-etl-tools-be-user-error/?cs=37415 Planners are always telling us to think through the possible scenarios and consequences before making a decision. But in my experience, it's not a lack of effort that leads to the problems, it's the scenarios and consequences you didn't even know could data_integration extract_transform_and_load business_technology smbs Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:43:52 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/could-the-problem-with-etl-tools-be-user-error/?cs=37415 2009-11-11T17:43:52Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/could-the-problem-with-etl-tools-be-user-error http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37415 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/companies-showcasing-integrations-with-google-wave/?cs=37392 Google Wave is generating a bit more chatter this month. At first, I thought this was because those Wave  (can I call it G-Wave yet?) invitations are slowly working their way out from the core to less critical, but curious people, like me.   I know web_applications application_integration novell google sap collaboration_software business_technology Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:28:06 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/companies-showcasing-integrations-with-google-wave/?cs=37392 2009-11-10T22:28:06Z 1 week, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/companies-showcasing-integrations-with-google-wave http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37392 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/how-to-fund-mdm-and-other-questions-answered/?cs=37357 How do you fund master data management? It's no small challenge, and the fact is, few have managed to fund stand-alone MDM projects, according to Wayne Eckerson, director of TDWI Research.   Funding can be even more of a challenge if your company master_data_management mdm data_warehousing business_technology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:29:48 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/how-to-fund-mdm-and-other-questions-answered/?cs=37357 2009-11-09T21:29:48Z 1 week, 4 days ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/how-to-fund-mdm-and-other-questions-answered http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37357 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/cutter-consortium-offers-free-journal-on-semantic-enterprise/?cs=37313 On Wednesday I wrote about semantic technology's implication for the enterprise. In that post, I shamelessly hinted that it'd be great if the Cutter Consortium would offer non-members a look at the Cutter piece “The Rise of the Semantic Enterprise.” data_integration master_data_management software_and_web_development business_technology Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:56:02 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/cutter-consortium-offers-free-journal-on-semantic-enterprise/?cs=37313 2009-11-06T18:56:02Z 2 weeks, 5 hours ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/cutter-consortium-offers-free-journal-on-semantic-enterprise http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37313 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/which-costs-more-staff-or-middleware/?cs=37288 I follow a lot of SOA discussions that, for various reasons, I don't write about on this blog. First, this isn't an SOA blog; it's an integration blog, and I've got to represent, you know: Keep it real, and so on. Second, sometimes these discussions are soa cost_containment business_case business_technology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:04:10 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/which-costs-more-staff-or-middleware/?cs=37288 2009-11-05T22:04:10Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/which-costs-more-staff-or-middleware http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37288 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/semantic-techs-implications-for-the-enterprise/?cs=37250 No doubt, you've heard about semantic Web and its potential to change the Web as we know it.   And, of course, I've written here on numerous occasions about semantic integration – which is, essentially, using semantic techniques, such as data_integration business_technology semantic_web application_integration software_and_web_development Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:02:38 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/semantic-techs-implications-for-the-enterprise/?cs=37250 2009-11-04T22:02:38Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago 4 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/semantic-techs-implications-for-the-enterprise http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37250 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/identifying-integrations-value-gets-trickier-every-day/?cs=37213 “Integration is like weather,” opines Gartner Research Director Thomas Otter. “The statement, 'We have weather today,' is accurate but not particularly useful. This is similar to the statement, 'Our system is integrated.'”   Otter joined Gartner cloud_computing business_case data_integration business_technology soa application_integration saas Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:21:20 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/identifying-integrations-value-gets-trickier-every-day/?cs=37213 2009-11-03T21:21:20Z 2 weeks, 3 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/identifying-integrations-value-gets-trickier-every-day http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37213 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/could-mashups-solve-problems-plaguing-business-intelligence/?cs=37179 Despite economic concerns, analysts predicted business intelligence would be a top tech priority this year . And apparently, it has been.   But it's fall, and with fall comes the harvest and even though modern business isn't what you'd call an mashups it_market_analysts business_intelligence ibm data_integration business_technology business_culture Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:04:05 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/could-mashups-solve-problems-plaguing-business-intelligence/?cs=37179 2009-11-02T22:04:05Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/could-mashups-solve-problems-plaguing-business-intelligence http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37179