Loraine Lawson

Creating an App-Centric Network for the Internet of Things “The Internet of Things will bloom,” Monte Zweben predicted via an email to me. “IOT will finally live up to the hype, as more machine-generated data will be collected.” It’s hard to argue with Zweben’s predictions. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Splice Machine, a Hadoop […]

Top Five Cloud Trends Expected in 2015 Cloud integration is generally viewed as a pain point, but maybe it’s time to look at how the cloud can support new and exciting integration use cases. That’s the view that Don Rippert, IBM’s general manager of Cloud Strategy, promoted at IBM’s Insight 2014 conference. When we look […]

Big Data Certification and Training Options on the Rise One of the big questions right now is where society is going to find enough data scientists to fill the need. McKinsey & Co. predicted in 2011 that the U.S. would face a shortage of 140,000 to 190,000 people with deep analytical skills by 2018. The […]

Five Ways Automation Speeds Up Big Data Deployments Here’s an interesting indicator of where the integration market is headed: Leading data integration company Informatica’s strongest revenue growth right now is in the cloud. Informatica’s cloud business showed 40 percent revenue growth, according to a report by Raymond James & Associates analyst Michael Turits. That would […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off I recently interviewed a technology start-up that claimed they were already profitable, with only a few clients and a few months out the door. I have no way to verify or deny that, but I can tell you this: The entire product is built around […]

Building Software-Defined Control for Your Data Center VMware predicted software-defined data centers (SDDC) would “hit it big” in 2013. Spoiler: That didn’t happen. Nonetheless, the concept hasn’t gone away. In fact, IT Business Edge’s Infrastructure blogger, Arthur Cole, wrote about SDCCs several times this year, including a November article in which he called the idea […]

Seven Data Obstacles You Need to Overcome to Drive Cross-Channel Marketing If you’re curious about data virtualization tools, you can now tinker for free: Denodo is offering a free version of its data virtualization platform, along with access to a support community. Trimmed-down, free or limited-use versions of integration tools are nothing new to the […]

Five Ways Big Data Can Turn Health Data into Actionable Insights Predictive analytics is causing quite a buzz right now, but organizations tend to forget one crucial question before jumping in: Does the data and data architecture actually support useful predictive analytics? It seems so obvious, and yet, a shortage of good data is the […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes What types of integration work should you focus on in 2015? In a word: modernization, recommends Ovum. Integration is key to most of today’s big tech trends, including the Internet of Things, mobile, cloud adoption and digital business. Those trends will continue to be key drivers for middleware in 2015, […]

Millennials Expect Brands to Use Their Unique Data for Hyper-Targeted Experiences A new survey shows that organizations really are embracing the shift to data-driven leadership — so much so that it’s actually affecting the economy, according to Victoria Espinel, president and CEO of the survey’s co-sponsor, BSA. Ipsos Public Affair polled more than 1,500 senior […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers I admit to having fan-girl tendencies. I’m a big geek in that way, particularly when it comes to games or quirky TV. When it comes to technology, though, I’m neutral, as I should be. I own a Mac, but loved my retired Dell and […]

Five Ways Contact Centers Use Analytics to Make Smarter Business Decisions Retail companies have Big Data capabilities, but they’re not sure what to do with them. It’s just too… big, according to a special report released today by Brick Meets Clicks (available for free download with registration). “Discussions about Big Data and retail often bog […]