Loraine Lawson

Tips to Create an Effective Mobile Website Connectivity barriers to data, documents, apps and other business resources often keep remote and traveling employees from their work, according to a recent survey. Cloud networking company Pertino surveyed 990 U.S. professionals and found that many are dissatisfied with the support they receive from IT, reports Baseline Magazine […]

How to Effectively Address Privacy Concerns Open data standards might be one way to protect citizens against the potential threats posed by Big Data, writes IBM Information Strategist Steve Adler in IBM’s Data Magazine. “Having a third party such as the NSA isn’t intrinsically dangerous because that party knows what we are doing,” Adler writes […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Midmarket companies are willing to spend on Big Data, according to a recent survey by Competitive Edge Research Reports. In fact, the results show budgets will rise to an average of $6 million more over the next two years as companies invest more in hardware, software and training for Big […]

In-Memory: Speeding Up Value by Using Operational Intelligence Integrating distributed data is the most important enabler of Big Data analytics, according to a recent Ventana Research study. The study revealed several surprises, including responses from 240 qualifying participants at enterprise, large, midsize and small companies. For instance, 35 percent of organizations are using custom-built systems […]

I’m always a bit curious about what happens to technology after it settles in. When you clear away hype and pass through the trough of disillusionment, what’s left? What will history say about this new whatsit? Service-oriented architecture (SOA) was one of those highly controversial innovations a few years ago. It went through a very […]

Four Best Practices for Accelerating Time-to-Value of Master Data Management Master data management (MDM) is kind of low these days — it’s down in the trough of disillusionment, you might say. Reality is a sad situation for MDM advocates: So much promise, so little actual delivery. “The sad part to this story is that many […]

Factors such as total cost of ownership, initial costs, and impact on productivity are issues that IT, theoretically, should consider when investing in technology tools. And yet, that information is difficult to find on data integration solutions. A recent report from Bloor Research changes that. The research firm used survey responses from 292 companies to […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes B2B integration isn’t exactly new, and neither are the companies that provide B2B networks and IT services to support them. You would think, then, that it would be fairly stable and consolidated at this point. However, in its new Magic Quadrant for Integration Brokerage, Gartner argues that the market is […]

IT Strives to Reinvent Itself Despite Budget Restrictions A discussion is going on right now about the role of the enterprise service bus in cloud integration. Does it matter? I’m not convinced it does. Most of the discussion seems to be coming from vendors, and while it’s probably good thought fodder for architects, I’m unconvinced […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Have you noticed how many articles there are on “Little Data” these days? I’m totally guessing, but it seems like for every four or five Big Data pieces I see, I’ll run across one blog post admonishing that little data matters more than Big Data — or at […]

The three fairly pervasive ideas about what it takes to succeed with Big Data: You absolutely need Hadoop, or at least some sort of NoSQL, in-memory, new-fangled approach to data. Legacy systems like data warehouses are irrelevant. Don’t even think about Big Data until you’ve hired a consultant or data scientists. All are misconceptions, according […]

Breaching the NSA: Is Your Enterprise Next? Here’s some news that may spike sales of tin foil hats: The federal intelligence community recently issued an RFP for a massive IT integration contract. This deal combines the government, IT AND the military, so it’s mostly acronyms, but basically, the contract would allow agencies within and without […]