Loraine Lawson

Enterprises are turning to Hadoop in two major scenarios, according to a recent interview with Todd Goldman, vice president and general manager for enterprise data integration at Informatica: To save money on data warehouse appliances. At $30 million an appliance, companies are hesitant to invest in yet another appliance when they can offload extra data […]

A recent study of 35 large organizations found that social data is still “largely isolated from business-critical enterprise apps” and is created in departmental silos. The Altimeter Group study found that the average enterprise-class company owns 178 social accounts, with 13 departments “actively engaged” on social platforms. That’s creating serious social data silos, and, not […]

Today’s CIO: More Collaboration and Influence, But Less Control It’s time to add responsibility and accountability to information management, and the CIO is just the person to do it, argues Deborah H. Juhnke in a recent Harvard Business Review blog post, “Why Can’t a CIO Be More Like a CFO.” Her point hearkens back to […]

Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis It’s no secret that Big Data’s real challenge may not be the technology, but finding people with the right skills for Big Data success. But, as argued recently in two different pieces, it’s not a problem you solve by simply “hiring a data scientist.” The first piece is […]

Here’s an interesting question: How do you create a successful data governance strategy across a large organization? The International Association for Information and Data Quality recently published a lengthy piece that explains how you can coordinate such a data governance and master data management strategy by using a very specific tool: an alignment workshop. Kelle […]

Strategic Integration: 10 Business-Building Tips According to Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, many organizations still don’t have a strategic, comprehensive approach to data integration. But there is a growing awareness that it’s needed, especially as CIOs face: Pressure to collect and integrate data for business needs and changes Requirements for data delivery […]

The Benefits of Big Data Hindered by Traditional Analytic Approaches CIO.com recently published the final ranking of its top 10 Big Data startups. As you might guess from the phrase “final ranking,” CIO.com used a pretty complicated process to get the list of nominations down to the top 10. You can read about it in […]

Making Sense of Big Data in the Real Business World In the age of Big Data technology, it’s tempting to ignore that last step in data’s life cycle: Deletion. But while you may be able to—theoretically—keep everything, there are several business reasons why life cycle management matters more with Big Data. 1. Big Data grows […]

Strategic Integration: 10 Business-Building Tips It’s a buyer’s market for companies right now, according to a Wired blog post by Rob Fox, vice president of Application Development for Liaison Technologies, a global cloud integration and data management company. If you’re interested in selling, one way to make your company more attractive is by spiffing up […]

Five Ways to Know if Your Challenge Is Big Data or Lots of Data One of the big questions companies must be asking is how to shift from traditional management to being “data driven.” If only there were a simple, quick quiz you could take to find out if you’re on the right path to […]

It’s no surprise that marketing departments are demanding more access to enterprise data and Big Datasets. Also not surprising: Integration is a huge barrier when it comes to using that data, with 96 percent of marketers reporting data integration problems, according to a recent Forrester Survey. But what may surprise CIOs and other IT executives […]

Five Pitfalls to Avoid with Hadoop Information Week recently published an excellent and, from my point of view, entertaining Q&A on Big Data with IBM’s Information Management General Manager Bob Picciano. For me, the interview confirms two trends I’ve noticed and written about: Hadoop is significantly changing ETL, and how vendors are making it hard […]