Loraine Lawson

Do you know Gartner is predicting data will grow by 800 percent over the next five years?More noteworthy is the prediction that 80 percent of this data

Here’s an idea: If you can’t or don’t want to handle SaaS integration, make it a point of negotiation with the SaaS vendors.MuleSoft and THINKstrategies

Recently, Gartner Analyst Andrew White shared a customer call wherein the client outlines a long list of reasons that anyone can tell points to a dire

If you’re looking for someone to pull punches, don’t talk to Aaron Zornes.Zornes (@zornes) is the chief research officer of the MDM institute, which is a

“Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. While you are headed to work, make sure you make plans to Love Your Data a little extra today.” - Karen Lopez, aka the

Two and a half years ago, my friend Laura was experiencing pain and had an x-ray of her abdomen. The radiologist’s report determined it was most likely

Integration topped the list of complaints IT executives have about cloud implementations, according to a recent KPMG survey.This is at least the third

We’re only a month into this year but I’m already starting to pick up on a theme when it comes to data quality and data governance: routines.I don’t mean

More organizations are using Hadoop not just to process large datasets, but as a replacement for the transformation engines in ETL.But is Hadoop capable

The Harvard Business Review blog recently published a piece exploring the platform as a business model. Honestly, this strikes me as a unique opportunity

Is your master data management “mature” enough to actually be useful?You’d like to think it is. Heck, I’d like to think it is. After all, there’s no

In 2012, companies began in earnest to address data governance as a business issue. At the same time, several trends from the past year created new