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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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    SAP’s Approach to Big Data Innovation

    I could be wrong, but it’s my impression that SAP doesn’t spring to people’s minds when you talk about...

    Five Tips for Finding a Solution for Your Integration...

    If your company doesn’t deal with integration on an on-going basis, I suspect it can be hard to find...

    Free Help for Solving Integration Problems

    Top Five Questions to Answer Before Starting on Big Data Occasionally, I receive emails asking for advice about a...

    Hand-Coded, Business-Owned Integration? Won’t Somebody Think of the Children!

    Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed Hand-coding data integration hurts families. That’s what I learned yesterday, when my...

    A Three-Step Map to Finding Data Quality Problems

    Generally, data people talk about two well-trodden paths to improving data quality:Getting rid of duplications or resolving conflicts via...

    How Social Data Will Change MDM

    More companies are looking at how they can use external datasets to supplement their own systems, including master data.This...

    Putting IT Back into Data Governance

    Eight Ways to Put Hadoop to Work in Any IT Department Talk about data governance and one of the...

    Three Tactics for Reining in Big Data’s Dangers

    Five Pitfalls to Avoid with Hadoop I’ve been sifting through a lot of content about Big Data recently, and...

    What the Industrial Age Can Teach Us About Big...

    There are basically two schools of thought about how to make Big Data useful in enterprises.Be specific and focused...

    25 Questions to Ask Before Integrating External Datasets

    Twenty-eight percent of the time, traditional data integration tools are being used for integration with other businesses, according to...

    Why Self-Service BI Is a Unicorn

    Self-service business intelligence is a bit of a unicorn, according to a recent piece by Wayne Eckerson, a principal...

    Five New Tools for Smarter Big Data Integration

    Big Data Is Creating Big Jobs: 4.4 Million By 2015 EMC consultant David Dietrich says a “dirty little secret”...