Loraine Lawson

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on the factors changing data analytics and integration. The first post covered cloud infrastructure, the second discussed new data types, and the third focused on data services. Data keeps expanding, but only recently have organizations been able to store the […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data This month, I’m looking at trends that are changing data integration. Last week, I discussed how new data types are changing data infrastructure while cloud infrastructure requires a more service-oriented approach to integration. That’s only part of the services story, though. Trends such as mobile and Big […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Editor’s Note: This is part of a series on the factors changing data analytics and integration. The first post covered cloud infrastructure. It’s a truism that technology changes quickly and ages fast — and yet, despite massive network and computer evolutions, not much changed for data until […]

Five Critical Questions to Ask Before Moving Data to the Cloud It’s clear that our relationship to data is changing, both in terms of how we work with data and our relationship on individual levels. That, in turn, is triggering changes in the underlying technologies. Integration technology in particular is in the spotlight these days. […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Business users aren’t just technology savvy these days. They’re also increasingly data savvy, and that’s lead to a major shift in what business users expect when it comes to accessing and using data, according to data integration veteran Sachin Chawla. “These guys don’t even exactly know the […]

The 10 Fastest-Trending IT Skills: Spring 2015 British Gas revealed that it will form a data science team this week, according to the UK site, V3. The reason may serve as a strategic case for establishing data science teams going forward: The company says the team will help more business users delve into and use […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data The Internet of Things (IoT) will create oceans of new data — but finding meaning amid the swell will be challenging. That’s what some companies are finding when they deal with unstructured data in general. Despite the success stories, a recent Forrester survey shows our ability to […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data As I discussed yesterday, a shift is happening in business intelligence and experts aren’t sure how it will change software or IT’s role. One item that I didn’t discuss in that post, though, is the possible impact on BI teams. Self-serve BI will mean an end to […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Business users are finding that the self-serve data and integration tools they craved are leading to more confusion and frustration, it seems. “Last year the buzzwords were data discovery and governed data discovery—everyone wanted to learn as much as possible about those two concepts,” writes Rado Kotorov, […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Despite the fact that we often see the terms used simultaneously, there actually are significant differences between business intelligence (BI) and data analytics. If you’re a bit fuzzy on how they differ, Lillian Pierson recently posted a succinct video post explaining the key difference between business intelligence […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) is making headway as a more mainstream enterprise solution, according to marketing research firm Ovum. The firm’s new report, “Ovum’s Decision Matrix: Selecting an Integration PaaS (iPaaS) Solution, 2015-2016,” ranks nine iPaaS vendors by technology assessment, market impact and execution. Informatica […]

Eight Steps for Mastering Information Mapping Hadoop distributor MapR declined an invitation to be part of a vendor consortium centered on the Hadoop stack. MapR CEO John Schroeder explained the company’s decision in a post last week, deriding the consortium definition of Hadoop’s core as “vendor-biased.” The consortium calls itself the Open Data Platform, which […]