http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson * Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:56:02 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-11-06T18:56:02Z 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 1 day, 1 hour ago 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 1 day, 22 hours 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 days, 22 hours ago 1 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 3 days, 23 hours ago 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 4 days, 22 hours 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 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/much-ado-about-the-soa-manifesto/?cs=37135 The SOA blogs lit up all week with news of the SOA Manifesto.   The SOA Manifesto is a statement on service oriented architecture – “ the Bible of the SOA thought leader community,” according to Oracle's Jürgen Kress . It's modeled after the it_market_analysts business_technology standards_bodies soa Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:14:20 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/much-ado-about-the-soa-manifesto/?cs=37135 2009-10-30T17:14:20Z 1 week, 1 day ago 3 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/much-ado-about-the-soa-manifesto http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37135 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/applying-mashups-to-business-intelligence/?cs=37105 Enterprises – and vendors – are still trying to figure out where mashups make the most sense.   The most popular, low-hanging fruit for mashups seems to be replacing portals, or at least making them more Web 2.0-like, and smaller data-integration enterprise_software mashups business_case business_culture business_technology business_intelligence Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:27:41 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/applying-mashups-to-business-intelligence/?cs=37105 2009-10-29T20:27:41Z 1 week, 2 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/applying-mashups-to-business-intelligence http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37105 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/identifying-the-business-case-for-multidomain-mdm/?cs=37071 Yesterday, when I wrote about future trends in master data management, I referred to a recent Information Management article by Marty Mosely, which warned the business needs should determine which architectural style you use for multidomain master data master_data_management data_integration mdm business_case business_technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:44:47 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/identifying-the-business-case-for-multidomain-mdm/?cs=37071 2009-10-28T20:44:47Z 1 week, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/identifying-the-business-case-for-multidomain-mdm http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37071 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/future-trends-for-master-data-management/?cs=37035 Normally, people save predictions for the end of the year, but I personally always thought Halloween was a much more appropriate holiday for crystal balls.  Maybe I'm not the only one, because this week, blogger and software industry analyst R “Ray” master_data_management mdm it_market_analysts technology_markets data_integration business_technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:19:18 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/future-trends-for-master-data-management/?cs=37035 2009-10-27T20:19:18Z 1 week, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/future-trends-for-master-data-management http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37035 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/whats-holding-up-semantic-integration/?cs=37002 Last year, Gartner predicted that semantic technology would emerge as one of the top 10 disruptive technologies within the next four years.   That's right: I'm keeping tabs on that prediction.   I've written on several occasions about how data_integration government_agencies standards_bodies innovation business_technology Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:15:33 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/whats-holding-up-semantic-integration/?cs=37002 2009-10-26T20:15:33Z 1 week, 5 days ago 4 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/whats-holding-up-semantic-integration http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=37002 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/informatica-seen-as-attractive-to-tech-titans/?cs=36965 Informatica must really annoy some big tech vendors and market analsyts who love to predict its demise.   For one thing, it just won't go away. When the tech titans bought out other pure-play ETL companies a few years ago, Informatica wouldn't informatica it_market_analysts enterprise_software_vendors extract_transform_and_load business_technology data_integration Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:10:26 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/informatica-seen-as-attractive-to-tech-titans/?cs=36965 2009-10-23T19:10:26Z 2 weeks, 1 day ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/informatica-seen-as-attractive-to-tech-titans http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=36965 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/still-defining-soa-ibm-expands-its-concept-to-include-all-service-end-points/?cs=36899 One of the complaints analysts often make about vendors is that they offer their own definitions of SOA – often conveniently tailored to match their needs -- and thus add to the confusion over what is and is not SOA.   Someone even came up with a middleware_vendors ibm webshere middleware business_technology soa morgenthal vizard Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:14:44 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/still-defining-soa-ibm-expands-its-concept-to-include-all-service-end-points/?cs=36899 2009-10-22T03:14:44Z 2 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/still-defining-soa-ibm-expands-its-concept-to-include-all-service-end-points http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=36899 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/jitterbit-offers-new-enterprise-edition-and-a-new-unusual-integration-tool/?cs=36895 A little over a year ago, I interviewed Jitterbit's CTO, Ilan Sehayek. The open source data integration company was just over two years old and already in numerous midsized organizations.   But Jitterbit had its eyes set on the enterprise, Sehayek salesforce.com open_source_enterprise_software data_integration business_technology jitterbit's ilan sehayek Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:48:53 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/jitterbit-offers-new-enterprise-edition-and-a-new-unusual-integration-tool/?cs=36895 2009-10-21T17:48:53Z 2 weeks, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/jitterbit-offers-new-enterprise-edition-and-a-new-unusual-integration-tool http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=36895 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/companies-using-integration-via-cloud-for-competitive-advantage/?cs=36858 When I began writing about integration, I struggled with the concept of integration as a strategic endeavor.   One the face of it, nothing could be more tactical than connecting systems. And while I saw how integration could be a necessary soa web_applications web_services business_technology saas application_integration business_development cloud_computing strategic_planning Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:07:50 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/companies-using-integration-via-cloud-for-competitive-advantage/?cs=36858 2009-10-20T20:07:50Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/companies-using-integration-via-cloud-for-competitive-advantage http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=36858 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/free-integration-help-an-mdm-webinar-an-e-book-and-an-icc-new-group/?cs=36805 Master data management projects are no small undertaking, and there's a lot at stake. So, I suspect consultant Ralph Kimball will be speaking to a full virtual house during the free Web seminar he's giving on the topic of starting and managing MDM/EDW master_data_management mdm application_integration data_integration integration_competency_centers business_technology Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:47:26 GMT webadmin@itbusinessedge.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/free-integration-help-an-mdm-webinar-an-e-book-and-an-icc-new-group/?cs=36805 2009-10-19T19:47:26Z 2 weeks, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/comment/free-integration-help-an-mdm-webinar-an-e-book-and-an-icc-new-group http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/lawson/feeds/comments?blogPost=36805