Loraine Lawson

Four Best Practices for Accelerating Time-to-Value of Master Data Management Last month, I pointed out that you’ll probably never hire a data scientist, based on IT consultant Robin Bloor’s view that no such person exists in the real world, because too many skill sets are at play. Bloor wrote that instead, you’ll develop a team […]

We say it all the time: Data governance should be driven by the business. But let’s face it: IT knows the technology and most of the technology requires heavy IT involvement. So what does that even mean when you’re talking about something as technology-focused as master data management? And how can CIOs convince the business […]

Big Data Is Creating Big Jobs: 4.4 Million By 2015 The growth of data surpassed unfathomable long ago, and anyone who deals with data knows this. But seriously, step back from the vastness of it for a minute and consider how massive these data amounts are. We live in a world where cell phones have […]

Four Best Practices for Accelerating Time-to-Value of Master Data Management It’s not possible to be successful with data integration without addressing data quality, argues Ted Friedman, Gartner vice president and analyst. “It’s not just about connecting things, it’s about making sure data gets delivered in a fit-for-purpose way, and that’s where the data quality capabilities […]

Strategic Integration: 10 Business-Building Tips SharePoint continues its push to be the Facebook of its enterprise, and that’s very clear from the 2013 release, according a recent TechTarget article by Scott Robinson. Robinson is an enterprise architect with a background in social psychology. His recent write up about SharePoint 2013 (registration required) shows it, too, […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis Yesterday, I wrote about the complexities of cloud integration. For the most part, the solutions are similar to what you might use on-premise, as one article pointed out. But one emerging option is different: semantic web technologies that leverage metadata and metamodels for integration. Recently, InfoWorld invited Sanjiva […]

Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed I’ve written many times about the challenges of integration when you’re dealing with the cloud—either integration with services or integration with cloud infrastructure. But I’m starting to see articles that add more depth to the data integration/cloud conversation, particularly when it comes to using cloud infrastructure. Baseline Magazine […]

Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy Last week, I discussed why CIOs need to prepare for the Internet of Things  (IoT) with its unique data challenges. Today, I am looking at another major problem the Internet of Things will create: lots of APIs and the need for API management. When the Internet of Things […]

Business adoption of Internet of Things solutions will be fast — in fact, as I wrote yesterday, it’s already here for some industries. That’s why CIOs and other IT leaders need to gear up for supporting the unique data issues related to this trend. Let’s look at what makes the Internet of Things data a […]

Five Steps to Improve Marketing Effectiveness with Big Data It’s time to think about how you’ll manage data from the Internet of Things. I’m not being trendy. I know it seems too new to be possible, but actually the Internet of Things is a simple concept. Sensors + Wi-Fi = Device. It will quickly take […]

Almost without exception, experts will tell you to recruit an executive sponsor for just about every IT project. Take master data management, for instance. Oh sure, experts preach that it’s a discipline, not “just” a technology, but come on. Did anybody ever hear about MDM before MDM solutions were created? So how much do you […]

The market for API management tools is in high gear, reaching an estimated $70 million last year, with 40 percent growth expected this year, Gartner reports. What’s currently driving adoption is no big secret: It’s SaaS and mobile apps, according to Gartner’s recently released “Magic Quadrant for Application Services Governance.” “The use of Web APIs […]