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Jer Thorp has a bit of bad news for all the executives who love to declare, “Big Data is the new oil.”The implication being, of course, that Big Data will

Gartner’s “2012 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools” report is now available for free perusal, if you’re looking for a little light reading this

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If you want to know where interest in Semantic Web technology stands as an adoptable technology, consider this: In March, the standards group OMG held a

Thursday is Thanksgiving in the United States, a time when U.S. citizens eat ridiculous amount of turkey, bread, potatoes and, for reasons I don’t

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Data Integration Remains a Major IT HeadacheStudy shows that data integration is still costly and requires a lot of manual coding. You want to convince

Master Data Management is still evolving. Review Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant for MDM of customer data now.

The weekend migration is practically a rite of passage for IT, but it may soon become only a legend old timers tell the newbies.A recent post on Data