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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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    The Challenges of Integrating and Mastering Big Data

    There are a lot of predictions about how Big Data will change things in the coming year. But the...

    Company Uses Linked Data to Solve Integration Problem

    A worldwide leader in semiconductor sales is experimenting with Linked Data as a way to integrate internal systems, according...

    Small Orgs and Big Data? Affordable Solutions Exist for...

    Even small companies can have Big Data needs. A recent Aberdeen Group report found small company demands for actionable...

    Businesses Finding Multi-Domain MDM Offers New Opportunities

    I write a lot about master data management, but the sad truth is, most of the focus is on...

    Data Quality is Healthcare in Lacking

    How bad is the quality of clinical health care data? There are certainly issues, but it seems very few...

    What Does ‘Enterprise-wide Data Integration Strategy’ Mean?

    I’m catching up on my reading this week and what did I discover but this piece by David Linthicum...

    Don’t Be a Big Data Laggard

    Gartner estimates that within two years, only 10-15 percent of businesses will take full advantage of Big Data. But...

    An Integration Resolution for the New Year

    It’s a New Year, and for many of us, that means setting a New Year’s resolution or two.Personally, I...

    2013: The Year of More Integration?

    In some ways, every year is an integration year — and it pretty much has been since we started...

    Top Integration Trends of 2012

    Integration isn’t exactly a headline grabber like, say, IT security. You’re just not going to hear about an ETL...

    Four Must-Follow Data Twitter Users

    Yesterday, I explained why I think more data people and IT leaders should be involved with Twitter in 2013....

    Using Twitter to Stay Current on Data Management

    Many people think Twitter occupies the same space as Facebook — a place to share what you’re doing with...