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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 You Should Make Smart Integration IT’s First Priority

    Jason Hill of the UK company Glue Reply wrote last week what might be my favorite integration article of...

    Five Integration Challenges for Big Data

    Big Data Makes Organizations Smarter, but Open Data Makes Them Richer How important is Big Data? The answer seems to...

    Red Hat’s Aggressive Plan for Integration, BPM Expansion

    It wasn’t the biggest news in middleware when Red Hat acquired FuseSource or Polymita’s BPM technology just a few...

    The Graph Database: One Option for Exploring Big Data

    It’s not easy making sense out of a lot of “noise” in data, which is why I think you...

    You Can’t Fix Stupid and Other Arguments Against Big...

    Lately I’ve seen several blog posts that I’ve mentally labeled as “Lectures on why Big Data can’t fix stupid.”These...

    New Trend: Companies Adding Intelligence to Business Processes

    What’s great about covering technology is that it’s always evolving, so there’s always something new.What’s not so great: There’s...

    Oracle’s 2012 Integration Story: The Enterprise Apps

    Going to Oracle’s OpenWorld must be like shopping at a warehouse: Big, distracting and really annoying when you realize...

    Fraud, BYOD and Other Reasons to Add Location Data...

    Collecting location data is not new by any means, but it’s becoming more relevant now that we have better...

    Enterprises Giving ETL a Boost with Hadoop

    “Will Hadoop Steal Work from ETL,” I asked in an August post that looked at how the Hadoop ecosystem...

    Syncsort and Cloudera: Fast and Furious Big Data

    Syncsort is joining the Cloudera Connect Partner, which intrigues me for a number of reasons.First, this partnership is truly...

    ‘That Trick Never Works’: Time for New Tricks with...

    “Why is it so hard for business users to get their head around ‘data stewardship’?” Gartner master data management...

    Moving to SaaS or Cloud: Look Out for the...

    SaaS integration isn’t the big obstacle to adoption it used to be. In fact, there are a number of...