Loraine Lawson

Now that more executives and IT leaders understand the basics of Big Data, it’s time to start a different discussion: How do you succeed with Big

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Did you know there were 882 SOA-related patents last year — way more than were filed at the top of SOA’s hype cycle?Neither did I. But it turns out,

Did you know that 40 percent of the top 30 deals of $1 million or more in the last reported financial quarter included a middleware component? And that

There’s a lot of discussion these days about giving business users more access to BI tools and analytics. But actually delivering on that, say techies in

Looking for a way to make money for your company? Invest in open data, Gartner recommended last week. But be forewarned: The suggestion comes amid

When it comes to BI integration, there’s just no end in sight to what you could integrate. There’s always one more system, one more data store — and now,

It’s not too hard to find use cases for Hadoop, but many seem to focus on how Internet companies use Big Data. That’s great if you’re

One of the challenges that technologists are still working out is the easiest way to put unstructured data to work for most end users.It’s particularly a

Most SaaS solutions rely on APIs and Web services for integration, but as integration demands grow, it may be time to step up to a more robust way of

Gartner released its new Magic Quadrant for Data Quality earlier this month, with SAS/DataFlux, Informatica, Trillium Software, SAP and IBM placing in the

There are a lot of ultra-cutting-edge and cool use cases for Hadoop, from sensors to Four Square. But what about Hadoop for the rest of us? What are the