Loraine Lawson

Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed Data integration and migration projects are often an afterthought, according to a recent column by Gary Allemann, a member and senior consultant at Master Data Management. “Planning and data quality go hand in hand when it comes to data integration and migration, and any other big technology project […]

If CIOs want to “get IT right,” they need to add two new capabilities to the IT division, according to a veteran director and trustee. James I. Cash, Jr., is the James E. Robison professor and senior associate dean, emeritus, of Harvard Business School. As you might guess from his title, Cash frequently has served […]

Does investing in advanced analytics pay off? If you’re the federal government, it does, and big time. A recent Fed Tech Magazine article explains how master data management and advanced analytics stopped $47 billion in overpayments to dead people, debarred contractors, prisoners and others who once cashed federal checks for unearned funds. The article doesn’t […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis I remember the first time I heard the terms “business intelligence” and “analytics.” Business. Intelligence. Yep, that was something I could get behind. Then I figured out that it really amounted to business statistics, automated to a certain extent by a computer. It was a bit of a […]

Integration as a service still isn’t quite as popular as, say, CRM, but it has matured considerably since the concept was first introduced, experts say. TechTarget spoke with several experts, including Ovum Senior Analyst Saurabh Sharma, about integration platform-as-a-service adoption. Interestingly, what led to the technology maturing wasn’t end-user adoption, but SaaS companies packaging integration […]

The Benefits of Big Data Hindered by Traditional Analytic Approaches Kofax acquired data integration software vendor Kapow Software this week for $47.5 million. Kofax specializes in a variety of information-related solutions, including information capture, mobile, analytics and process management.  Kapow offers real-time application integration, with a focus on supporting self-service integration for business users. Its […]

Strategic Integration: 10 Business-Building Tips For some time now, APIs have been the primary way to handle cloud integration. In fact, a recent survey by API management company, Layer 7, found that cloud integration is the number two adoption driver—behind mobility—for API programs. One of the reasons APIs are so popular is that they’re simple […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis CIOs who want to stay relevant may want to pay attention to what’s going on with data in the marketing department. Marketing is fast becoming one of the major business consumers of data. And this department is often discontent with the state of its data quality, access and […]

Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy Big Data is playing a huge role in medical research—some even believe it will be instrumental in finding a cure for cancer. Though in its early stages, harnessing the power of Big Data obviously has the potential to change medical research in a major way. The National Institutes […]

Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed SaaS applications and mobile applications are big business drivers for a faster, more agile approach to the integration layer, says Chris Purpura, vice president and general manager for MuleSoft’s CloudHub integration-as-a-service platform. I recently interviewed Purpura to learn why—in this age of the cloud—MuleSoft would be offering cloud-based […]

Companies that grow through mergers and acquisitions often create integration problems just by acquiring new systems. The Hackett Group’s Global IT Advisory Program Leader John Reeves told me their research shows application consolidation is still the primary means of reducing integration costs. “As a matter of fact, we refer to it as complexity, because with […]

Five Pitfalls to Avoid with Hadoop The master data management (MDM) software market reached $1.08 billion last year, according to a recent Information Difference Report on the MDM landscape. That’s a 24 percent growth rate over 2011. How does that break down? Well, it doesn’t include systems integration (and keep in mind, integration plays a […]