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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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    MDM Market Still Evolving with NoSQL Entry

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

    Control Integration, Control the Cloud?

    As big enterprise software vendors start to roll out cloud-based solutions and services, you would think that integration would...

    New Efforts Under Way to ‘Polish’ Hadoop

    Facebook announced a major new edition to the Hadoop toolset: It’s called Corona, and it basically makes Hadoop more...

    Matching MDM with Hadoop: Think of the Possibilities

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

    Solving the People Problem as Data Governance Grows

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

    Cutting Through IT’s ‘Truthiness’ About Master Data Management

    When it comes to master data management, it seems CIOs and IT leaders may be engaging in a bit...

    The Quest to ‘Democratize’ Big Data

    There’s no doubt big money will be made with Big Data — starting with the first vendor to truly...

    Is Big Data an Island?

    Big Data Is Creating Big Jobs: 4.4 Million By 2015 I suppose it’s smart that enterprises would want to test...

    Lessons from B2B on How to Win at Integration,...

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

    How to Win at Integration, Part I

    I was recently reading a report on B2B integration, and a major point of the paper was why some...

    SaaS Integration: Do You Need On-Premise Middleware?

    Here’s a bit of advice for those wanting to move more applications to the cloud: You might want to...

    ‘New’ Integration Strategy Rooted in Old Ideas

    Integration is such a persistent and well-explored problem that it’s a pretty bold move when someone declares a “new...