Loraine Lawson

The Nine Best Tech Jobs for 2015 Organizations need a chief data officer for one simple reason, according to Gartner Fellow and VP Debra Logan: No one is managing the data. CEOs beg to differ, Logan acknowledges. After all, they’re certainly spending large amounts of money “managing” data. The problem is, Gartner estimates the average […]

To SaaS or Not to SaaS: 2015 Enterprise App Outlook Are integration complexities ruining the value proposition of enterprise SaaS? Yes, argues ERP expert and veteran industry watcher Joshua Greenbaum in his post that is the SaaS equivalent of “The Emperor’s New Clothes.” “What has become obvious is that enterprise-class SaaS as a strategic implementation […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments Who needs a data scientist when you can have a robot analyze your data? No, seriously, that’s an actual question enterprises may be asking if this Computerworld article on artificial intelligence is right. Technically, I guess artificial intelligence isn’t a robot until you add a body, but […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape It was hard not to laugh just a little bit when I read how a TV channel in the UK solved its integration problems. See if you can guess where the maniacal laugh started. (Hint: It’s in bold). “Legacy systems were becoming brittle due to them being […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Data virtualization was once seen as an alternative to integration via ETL. As it turned out, that was a poor selling point, Denodo’s Senior Vice President Suresh Chandrasekaran said during a recent interview. “There was such an entrenched mindset that everything had to be copied and persisted […]

Capitalizing on Big Data: Analytics with a Purpose Gartner analyst Laura McClellan shocked us all in 2012 by predicting that the CMO’s technology budget would outstrip the CIO’s IT budget by 2017. And indeed, marketing departments have picked up technology spending on analytics and data initiatives. Now: If only they knew what to do with […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments The Industrial Internet Consortium recognizes that interoperability is a major challenge for the industrial Internet, which is basically the Internet of Things (IoT) in an industrial setting. While they’re not a standards body, admitting there’s a problem is half the battle, right? But then again, it’s not […]

Toby Owen of Peer 1 Hosting identifies four drivers for the hybrid cloud: Federation Interoperability Big Data The Internet of Things But covering data issues changes your perspective on these things, because when you boil it down, most technology is about sharing, securing or using data and information. Since information is just unstructured data — […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Analysts predict that the next two years will be big for the hybrid cloud: In a Gigaom survey, 76 percent of IT decision makers indicated that hybrid clouds “will be the core cloud strategy” for their organizations. Likewise, Gartner predicts that nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes You would think it’d be no problem to migrate data between the same type of ERP systems during a merger and acquisition. A $10 billion-plus chemical manufacturer certainly did, according to Eric Stout, VP of consulting, manufacturing vertical at BackOffice Associates. They estimated this “simple” migration would take maybe six […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments Companies can and have spent two to three years and millions of dollars building a Big Data solution just to analyze specific data, points out Scott Hedrick, who leads Informatica Big Data Ecosystems. And yet, at the end of the day, it’s still just one specific problem […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape If you’re having a hard time finding a BI/analytics solution that fits all your needs, you’re in good company and for good reason: No one solution addresses both data discovery and systems-of-record reporting, according to Gartner’s newly released Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms. The […]