Loraine Lawson

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Are you really ready to move on Big Data? Author and speaker Phil Simon doesn’t think so. He’s not talking about you specifically (or at least, not necessarily), of course, but he does doubt the rash of recent surveys and reports claiming that most organizations are deploying Big […]

Wearable Computing: Creativity from Head to Toe This week is the Wearables DevCon in San Francisco. Isn’t that a strange idea — we now have developer conventions for glasses, watches and “sport wearables,” whatever that entails. Real developers are assembling to discuss such topics as “APIs: The Secret to Making Wearables Relevant” and “An Emotional […]

Five Steps to Becoming a Cloud-Ready Company Organizations have spent the past two years growing their cloud services portfolio, and now they’re ready to start the integration work, according to a report by independent research firm Technology Business Research (TBR). Of course, it’s not exactly a secret that the cloud integration market is thriving right […]

How the Internet of Things Will Change Our Lives My daughter hates it when I post anything about her on Facebook. We’re talking full-on rant, with her most serious angry face and everything. So I talk about my preschool son. He doesn’t know yet why Mommy’s friends are laughing. But her very strong reaction, which […]

Six Reasons Businesses Need to Pay Attention to Unstructured Data When it comes to succeeding with data quality, you might gain an edge by avoiding a centralized approach, argues one data governance director. Alan D. Duncan is the director of data governance at the University of New South Wales, Australia. In a recent MIKE 2.0 […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 Experts have long talked about the 360-degree of customers in near mythical terms and as a generally worthwhile, if not actually achievable, goal. A new business imperative could up the ante for integrating data about customers, according to Gartner. In the past, what that’s really meant […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Social media isn’t always cooperative when it comes to extracting business value from its supposedly rich veins, and companies know it. I’m fascinated by the question. While there are certainly success stories, there doesn’t seem to be a clear path to achieving that success. My sense of the […]

Ten Top Tech Trends to Watch in 2014 Survey after survey shows that integration is one of the top concerns CIOs list when asked about cloud adoption. While there are point-to-point solutions that can solve your immediate issues, the problem is not going to be restricted to individual SaaS solutions for long. Cloud adoption, Big […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Organizations are dealing with more data coming in and out from all sorts of directions these days, without a doubt. Dealing strategically with that data, from integration to analysis, is a huge part of this blog’s goal. Sometimes, however, you have to stop and smell the tactical. And […]

Three Big Problems Big Data Will Create in 2014 Did you develop Big Data in a silo? It’s okay. You can be honest here. You’re among friends. In fact, it’s a safe bet you’re not alone, since experts were predicting this might happen back in 2012. All the signs suggested organizations were developing Big Data […]

Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed Dust off those ESBs and SOA solutions — they’re headed to the cloud. This month, two major vendors, Oracle and Red Hat, announced that they are updating their SOA solutions to support cloud integration. And to think, only a few weeks ago we were pondering whether APIs, for […]

Top Predictions for Big Data in 2014 Is Open Data really a big deal? The answer depends on whether you think $3 trillion in business value is a big deal, because that’s the estimated value open data is expected to deliver to businesses, according to a McKinsey finding cited in a recent infographic. Attunity, a […]