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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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    What Drives Up BI Deployment Costs?

    Tracing the Evolution of Business Intelligence Through the Rise of Embedded Analytics When it comes to the cost of...

    Three ‘Messy Data’ Success Stories

    Business leaders often rely on data as facts, yielding to them as a foundation (or sometimes a rationale) for...

    Getting Big Data Ready for Business: Tackling Big Data...

    Five Pitfalls That Can Derail Your Big Data Project Last week, I wrote about the three paradigm shifts required...

    B2B Integration Tools Find New Life in Cloud, Mobile

    Traditionally, B2B integration has been its own little technology world, separate from data integration and other more enterprise-focused tools.Cloud...

    The Three Paradigm Shifts You Need for Big Data

    It’s always interesting to me to see technology issues addressed in non-IT publications. So, naturally, I was intrigued when...

    Silos Are the Future, Governance Is the Solution

    Silos are here to stay.Four Steps to a Big Data Strategy I know when I’ve been beaten, and I’m...

    Making Hadoop Stronger, Better, Usable

    The Hadoop Summit happened this week in San Jose, and with 90 sessions over two days, I’m sure we’ll...

    Query Responsibly: Governing the Power of Big Data

    When I try to explain Big Data significance to non-techies, I use a simple analogy: “You know all that...

    The Missing Piece of the Social Enterprise Puzzle

    There’s still a significant drag on incorporating social collaboration tools in the business, and much of it is coming...

    The Three-Method Path to Information Strategy Enlightenment

    How far behind are you if you still don’t have an enterprise-wide information strategy?Not very far behind at all,...

    Revamped SnapLogic Takes Advantage of Cloud Infrastructure

    One of the best ideas I’ve heard for saving money on integration is to use pre-built connectors or interfaces...

    12 Steps to Scoping Big Data Projects

    Here’s Infochimps CEO Jim Kaskade’s rule of thumb on Big Data projects: 100 percent go over schedule, 100 percent...