Loraine Lawson

Master data management is an established industry, but there’s still a lot of movement and innovation, which continues to surprise me. Just last month,

As big enterprise software vendors start to roll out cloud-based solutions and services, you would think that integration would be the least of their

Facebook announced a major new edition to the Hadoop toolset: It’s called Corona, and it basically makes Hadoop more efficient at processing data.For most

I’m always curious about use cases with Hadoop, mostly because I feel there’s a lot of unexplored potential still.For example, could Hadoop make it easier

Five Tips for Easier Data GovernanceFive steps you can take to ease the trauma of starting data governance. One of the main challenges with any data

When it comes to master data management, it seems CIOs and IT leaders may be engaging in a bit of what Stephen Colbert calls “truthiness.”Truthiness is

There’s no doubt big money will be made with Big Data — starting with the first vendor to truly “democratize” Big Data.In October, Gartner estimated Big

Big Data Is Creating Big Jobs: 4.4 Million By 2015 I suppose it’s smart that enterprises would want to test Hadoop by setting it up as a sandbox silo

Today, I’m continuing a discussion on the key factors for integration success, as identified by the Freeform Dynamics, a research firm that recently

I was recently reading a report on B2B integration, and a major point of the paper was why some companies underperform at integration while others

Here’s a bit of advice for those wanting to move more applications to the cloud: You might want to hang onto that on-premise middleware.At least, that’s

Integration is such a persistent and well-explored problem that it’s a pretty bold move when someone declares a “new integration” approach.So, yes,