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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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    Why App Integration May Become a Competitive Advantage

    How important is integration? Pretty darn important, according to Gartner experts, who told audiences that a lack of application...

    Fair Warning: Most of ‘Your’ Big Data Belongs to...

    Jer Thorp has a bit of bad news for all the executives who love to declare, “Big Data is...

    Round-up: Gartner’s Magic Quadrant Leaders Don’t Always Lead in...

    Gartner’s “2012 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools” report is now available for free perusal, if you’re looking for...

    The Best and the Worst of MDM Practices

    We often talk about a “golden version of the truth” when it comes to master data management’s goals. But...

    Big Data: Think ‘Explorer’ Rather than ‘Scientist’

    There’s a lot of talk about the data scientist since Big Data came on the scene. But when it...

    Industries Putting Semantic Web Technologies to Work on Internal...

    If you want to know where interest in Semantic Web technology stands as an adoptable technology, consider this: In...

    Six Reasons IT Can Be Thankful on Thursday

    Thursday is Thanksgiving in the United States, a time when U.S. citizens eat ridiculous amount of turkey, bread, potatoes...

    The Need for Speed: Moving Big Data Quickly Can...

    There are a lot of mixed messages when it comes to moving Big Data with ETL processes. I’ve been...

    CFOs Now Vested in Data Integration, Quality

    Five Tips for Easier Data GovernanceFive steps you can take to ease the trauma of starting data governance. I’m a...

    Integration Remains Top Executive Concern About Cloud Computing

    Data Integration Remains a Major IT HeadacheStudy shows that data integration is still costly and requires a lot of...

    Gartner’s MDM Magic Quadrant Report

    Earlier this week, I talked about how master data management is still evolving, but for a more detailed look...

    No More Weekend Data Migrations: Another Reason for an...

    The weekend migration is practically a rite of passage for IT, but it may soon become only a legend...