Loraine Lawson

Liaison Technologies is now offering what it calls the first dPaaS. That’s short for data platform as a service, but integration is part of the solution as well. It’s all offered in a multi-tenant cloud platform, which is generally translated as “scales well.” Liaison sees this new offering as a fit for hybrid environments, B2B […]

Data is disruptive. On some level, I think most leaders know that’s true. In a recent Capgemini survey, 64 percent out of 1,000 senior business leaders agreed that Big Data is changing traditional business boundaries and even enabling non-traditional providers to move into their industries. Another 53 percent also agreed that data-enabled start-ups are increasingly […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Big Data is changing how businesses function in four distinct ways, according to a recent Capgemini report. The consultancy queried 1,000 senior business leaders about Big Data to determine how it’s being adopted across different sectors and regions of the world. The findings suggest that […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off Confusion surrounds the topic of how to bring some sense of order to Big Data. Depending on the day, the discussion might come down to data quality, data governance or master data management. Here’s a hint: One of these is much less necessary than the […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data These days, it’s all about the citizen integrator. That’s why it’s not so surprising that ClearStory Data, a start-up still primarily making headlines for fundraising, focused on business users out of the gate at the Gartner Business Intelligence & Analytics Summit, held this week in Las Vegas. […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes You’d think master data management would be an easy sell in a world where everyone wants an accurate “360-degree” view of the customer. And certainly, that’s a leading driver of adoption. Yet it’s not always enough to make a winning business case, according to a recent Computing survey of IT […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes It seems like only yesterday that integration platform-as-a-service was an immature little imp in the integration world. Why, it was only last year that Gartner released its first Magic Quadrant on enterprise integration as a service. Oh my, how it has grown. Subscription revenue for the enterprise iPaaS market — […]

The Challenges of Gaining Useful Insight into Data Do data ethics matter? In an industry that tends to define ethics as “don’t get caught,” it’s a hard sale to make. But Gartner VP of Research Frank Buytendijk is trying. He feels that sometimes tech developments are made by “Silicon Valley people, who have lived privileged […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose If Lars George thinks there’s a gap between technology and application with Hadoop, he’s probably right. George is now Cloudera’s chief architect for EMEA, but he began with Hadoop in 2007, using it to build scalable Web solutions. He wrote the O’Reilly book on HBase. To sum […]

The Hadoop Challenge for Business Intelligence and Analytics Users Unstructured data received a boost from Big Data technologies such as Hadoop. Finally, organizations had an in-road to an estimated 70 to 80 percent of data that was largely unusable. But Big Data isn’t the last work when it comes to leveraging unstructured data. A recent […]

Six Details Your Big Data Provider Won’t Tell You “Every company also needs to be a data company,” Leo Mirani, a reporter for the London-based Quartz, warned last fall. I love that line, and once agreed. But in the past few months, I’ve had cause to rethink that premise and have decided that it’s not […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Until recently, Splunk has been content to focus on the IT crowd, primarily marketing itself as machine-to-machine analysis software. It’s the go-to log analysis software, used to identify network bottlenecks or security breaches, according to InfoWorld. “Splunk’s M2M data analytics software is without any close rivals, according […]