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    Loraine Lawson

    Loraine Lawson is a freelance writer specializing in technology and business issues, including integration, health care IT, cloud and Big Data.

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    Three Important Data Takeaways from Big Data Skeptics

    Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy Someone once told me she didn’t believe in Gartner’s hype cycle. I...

    New Data Challenges Drive Need for Updated Integration Strategy

    Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy In recent years, more IT organizations have shifted away from hand-coding integration...

    MDM’s Business Justification Isn’t Always Enough

    Four Best Practices for Accelerating Time-to-Value of Master Data Management Friday, I wrote about pursuing a data strategy that...

    Better Data Strategy: Play the Short Game, but Win...

    Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics Forbes published an interesting opinion about the...

    CERN Revamps Architecture to Better Support Hadron’s Big Data

    Five Ways to Know if Your Challenge Is Big Data or Lots of Data When it comes to physics,...

    Bigfoot, Beer & Buildings: Three Wacky Uses for Big...

    Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics Drop everything else you’re doing! Finally, someone...

    Blending Data Helps Gain Big Data Business Insights in...

    Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy Combining operational data from other sources — particularly Big Data sets —...

    Vendors Announce Search, Tools to Make Hadoop User Friendly

    Four Ways Security Analytics Can Improve Business Performance Cloudera, which offers a distribution of Hadoop, announced this week a...

    Data Science is Growing: But Why Now?

    Here’s a question: Why is data science such a big deal these days?Big Data, obviously, but it’s not just...

    Putting IBM’s Jeopardy Winner to Work

    Big Data Security Risk in the Enterprise: The Pitfalls of Hadoop It’s been two years since IBM’s supercomputer Watson...

    Questions and Issues to Consider Before You Start a...

    Nearly 55 percent of Big Data projects aren’t completed, according to a survey of IT professionals conducted by Big...

    Two Teens at 26?! What Big Data Got Wrong

    Overstepping the Line Between Big Data and Big Brother? I’m sure you’ve heard about Big Data’s potential to revolutionize...