Loraine Lawson

Five Disruptive Forces Changing the Role of the Systems Integrator Office workers like to talk about hard work, but let’s face it: Most of our work doesn’t even rise to the level of “hard,” especially when you consider the labor conditions of the late 1800s when Labor Day was made into a national holiday. The […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis If enterprises want to join the world of mobility, they will first need to master integration, according to a recent Computer World UK column by Suhas Uliyar, Oracle’s VP of Mobile Strategy, Product Management. As it stands now, he writes, the complexity of back-end integration “has acted as […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges I was recently talking with a friend about—what else—Facebook and her thoughts on whether that would be too private to share. “Oh, I don’t believe in privacy,” she said with a dismissive hand wave. That stumped me, in large part because she’s a defense attorney. “You don’t believe […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Bad news for SAP’s HANA: The majority of SAP’s American User Group is skeptical that the Big Data platform is worth the costs. ASUG recently surveyed its member on SAP HANA adoption. It heard from more than 500 respondents, with 93 percent identifying themselves as […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is nice and all, according to 92 percent of the 350 IT executives surveyed by Dimensional Research, but it would be much better if integration weren’t such a concern, the respondents said, according to an Integration Developer News report. “The ability to avoid SaaS silos and easily obtain […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps A new storage array will offer integrated audit tools, search and analytics, according to a recent Gigaom article. DataGravity has been in stealth mode until this week, when it announced its DataGravity Discovery storage array. The company was co-founded by Paula Long, who is better known as one […]

Eight Habits of Effective Critical Thinkers Here’s a tip that might take a little pressure off the data scientist talent search: A data scientist doesn’t necessarily need to be a math wizard with a PhD or other hard science background. In fact, that type of person might actually prove disappointing if your goal is Big […]

Millennials Expect Brands to Use Their Unique Data for Hyper-Targeted Experiences Does anybody else think Gartner’s hype cycle is speeding up? It seems to me that SOA spent about two or three years just reaching its hype pinnacle and is only now settling into the “plateau of productivity.” Big Data is already plunging into the […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges Banks may be undermining their own efforts at Big Data, according to a recent Information Week column. “When faced with the requirements of a new big data initiative, banks too often only draw on prior experience and attempt to leverage familiar technologies and software-development-lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies for deployment,” […]

2014 Big Data Outlook: Opportunities and Challenges Big Data isn’t just Hadoop and in-memory anymore. Big data technologies and tools have grown significantly over the past few years — so much so that it’s hard to keep up with them. If you’d like to get up to snuff and are primarily interested in open source […]

Four Ways Security Analytics Can Improve Business Performance How would it change data and integration if a programming language could differentiate between other languages, based on data type? This week, Carnegie Mellon University unveiled the first stage of Wyvern, an open source programming language that does just that. Wyvern is news for two reasons: It […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off We talk about Big Data and, now, Small Data as if it’s always clear with which you’re dealing. Big Data means volume, variety or velocity (or all three) and small data is structured and everything else. Of course, the reality isn’t always so binary, according […]