Integration on the Edge: Data Explosion & Next-Gen Integration

Cloud should be "top down", SaaS "bottom up"? Huh?

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By Hollis Tibbetts on May 20, 2013 9:57 AM 0 Vote 1 Vote
It's rare that I ever disagree with @DavidLinthicum.But this weekend, I read an otherwise great article in InfoWorld  entitled "Your company's cloud strategy must come from the top".Today's "shadow IT" world - where every department seems to have the capability... Read More..
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Birst Shakes Up Cloud Analytics with New Visualization Edition

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By Hollis Tibbetts on June 14, 2012 5:32 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Birst, a San Francisco-based Cloud-driven analytics vendor "gets" big data analytics. They make enterprise-class analytics making accessible to organizations of almost any size with a multi-tenant Cloud-based approach that offers more scalability and faster time-to-value than traditional solutions like SAP... Read More..
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Mulesoft Focuses on SaaS App Wins with Mule iON SaaS Edition

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By Hollis Tibbetts on May 15, 2012 8:17 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I've been following Mulesoft and their Mule iON Cloud-based application integration platform for a while - in fact, I've written about it here on ebizQ (back in December 2011). They are in that class of vendors that Gartner Research VP... Read More..
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What Do CFOs Really Need to Know about Integration?

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By Hollis Tibbetts on May 15, 2012 1:32 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Constellation Research and Ex-Forrester super-analyst R "Ray" Wang sent over a copy of a Research Brief he recently authored entitled "What CFOs Need to Know about SaaS and Cloud Integration". Only 10 pages long, including the cover and "abouts", this... Read More..

Legacy Modernization, Integration & Agility

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By Hollis Tibbetts on May 12, 2012 11:06 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
The classic "CIO's Dilemma" is to hold down costs while simultaneously investing in innovation for the future - a bit like trying to fly the airplane while refitting it at the same time. Most organizations can only invest 20-25% on... Read More..
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Integration: Number 1 Motivator for Legacy Application Modernization

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By Hollis Tibbetts on May 8, 2012 4:50 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I've written a couple of articles over the past week that discuss the challenges associated with communicating the business value of "infrastructure software" like integration. I've suggested that framing the debate around technology and business problems like Legacy Application Modernization... Read More..
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Integration - Technology vs. Business Initiatives like Legacy Application Modernization

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By Hollis Tibbetts on May 4, 2012 1:33 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
One of the most challenging things about being an advocate for Integration technology is that Integration does not solve a particular business problem. Instead, it solves about 100,000 business problems (a bit of integration-geek humor for you to use at... Read More..
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Perspectives on Gartner's Data and Application Integration Story

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By Hollis Tibbetts on April 24, 2012 9:08 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Earlier today, I attended a live webinar featuring Massimo Pezzini, Gartner VP and author of a series of Research Reports on Integration Platforms as a Service ("iPaaS"). I have written a series of articles on these Research Reports - and... Read More..
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Will Gartner Clarify Integration "iPaaS" on April 24?

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By Hollis Tibbetts on April 6, 2012 10:44 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I have not been a big fan of the various iPaaS Research Reports that have come out of Gartner Research. In fact, I have been quite vocal in my suggestions for improvement - with three articles on the topic on... Read More..
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Business Applications (like Salesforce.com) Failing to Achieve Full Value

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By Hollis Tibbetts on March 30, 2012 2:55 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Around the world, organizations spend tens of thousands to tens of millions of dollars every year implementing and supporting Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation (SFA) software. They spend these enormous sums of money for one simple reason... Read More..
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Build vs. Buy Debate on SaaS, Cloud Integration Continues...

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By Hollis Tibbetts on March 5, 2012 11:29 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
The build vs. buy debate for integration software (both data and application integration) continues. See it on IntegrationTV's Episode Six. This topic, along with the general debate of what constitutes an integration strategy and the differences between application integration and... Read More..
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Gartner Further Complicates Cloud and SaaS Integration with Multiple Distributed iPaaS Options

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By Hollis Tibbetts on February 1, 2012 2:16 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
About two weeks ago, Gartner Research released yet another research report on iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) "iPaaS Expands Beyond Cloud Service Integration Through Flexible Deployment Topologies". Rather than clarify the confusion surrounding iPaaS platforms, it jumbles things up... Read More..
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Damn the Gartner iPaaS, Full Speed Ahead on SaaS & Cloud Integration

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By Hollis Tibbetts on January 27, 2012 10:44 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Yesterday, I wrote in-depth about Gartner Research's recent iPaaS reports. My conclusion was that "in many ways, Gartner's iPaaS reference model (in all its complexity and ambitiously broad scale) is everything you DON'T need to know about Cloud Integration to... Read More..
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Where Do I Buy Gartner Research's iPaaS? Cloud & SaaS Integration Confusion

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By Hollis Tibbetts on January 26, 2012 11:20 AM 0 Vote 1 Vote
What's an iPaaS and where can I get one? I've been reading the various reports from Gartner Research that have been coming out since early 2011 on this topic. To be perfectly straightforward, Gartner's lengthy iPaaS reports leave me a... Read More..
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Crowdsourcing - A Solution to your "Bad Data" Problems

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By Hollis Tibbetts on January 25, 2012 1:37 PM 0 Vote 1 Vote
Data problems - whether they be inaccurate data, incomplete data, data categorization issues, duplicate data, data in need of enrichment - are age-old. IT executives consistently agree that data quality/data consistency is one of the biggest roadblocks to them getting... Read More..
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Fixing a $3 Trillion Dirty Data Problem with "Crowd Computing"

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By Hollis Tibbetts on January 22, 2012 12:55 PM 0 Vote 1 Vote
Yes.  "Crowd Computing", not "Cloud Computing".  That wasn't a typo. Bad data is a big problem.  An enormously expensive problem.  At this point, most people should be nodding their head - just as if I had said something obvious and true... Read More..
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Cloud-based Application Integration Gains Momentum with "iApps"

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By Hollis Tibbetts on January 19, 2012 12:33 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Real-time application integration is picking up speed in the Cloud.  MuleSoft and Zuora just made a significant announcement on this front - one that validates the need for Cloud-based Application Integration, and shows that market is gaining momentum. Reading between the lines,... Read More..
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Cloud Data Integration: Real-Life Experiences and Best Practices

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By Hollis Tibbetts on December 20, 2011 9:53 AM 0 Vote 1 Vote
I took advantage recently of an opportunity to listen in on a panel discussion sponsored by data integration heavyweight Informatica. It was hosted by THINKstrategies' Jeff Kaplan, with panelists from Astadia, D&B, Informatica and PSA Financial Services. I wrote a... Read More..
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2012 - The Year Cloud Analytics Takes Off

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By Hollis Tibbetts on December 15, 2011 10:21 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes
2012 will be the year that Cloud Analytics hits pay dirt. Increasingly - and at an accelerating rate, data and applications are moving to the Cloud, and the old-fashioned on-premises Business Intelligence stacks are going to be supplanted by a... Read More..
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Cloud Data Integration - Bigger, Better, Faster and More Important in 2012

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By Hollis Tibbetts on December 14, 2011 3:57 PM 1 0 Vote 1 Vote
I took advantage of an opportunity to listen in on a panel discussion sponsored by Data Integration heavyweight Informatica. Hosted by THINKstrategies' Jeff Kaplan, with panelists from Astadia, D&B, Informatica and PSA Financial Services, this interactive discussion reviewed the state... Read More..
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This blog offers an informed and informative perspective on next-generation integration and the ongoing explosion of technologies, data and applications. The ultimate goal: turning the problems caused by this explosion into assets and competitive advantages.

Hollis Tibbetts

One of the most widely read author/experts on the Internet on technology and strategy for Integration, Data Management, SaaS, Cloud, Legacy Modernization and Social Media – with 50,000 article reads monthly. A major proponent of leveraging good common sense in an industry that often seems to have overlooked common sense. He enjoys writing and discussing the impact that Technology (such as Legacy Modernization or Integration) have on the “business”. Hollis is currently a director for software strategy in Dell Inc.’s Global Mergers & Acquisitions organization. Hollis has developed substantial expertise in middleware, SaaS, Cloud, data management and distributed application technologies, with over 20 years experience in marketing, technical, product management, product marketing and business development roles at leading companies in such as Sybase (now SAP), webMethods (now Software AG), M7 Corporation (acquired by BEA/Oracle), Aruna (acquired by Progress Software), Cognos, SPSS, Pervasive, OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette) and KIVA Software (acquired by Netscape). He has established himself as an industry expert, having authored a large number of technology white papers, as well as published media articles and book contributions. Writing on Integration, Legacy Modernization, Marketing and other Tech/Strategy Topics Hollis is a regularly featured blogger at ebizQ, a venue focused on enterprise technologies, with over 100,000 subscribers, on Cloud Computing Journal and on SOA World. He is also a featured author on Social Media Today “The World’s Best Thinkers on Social Media”, and maintains a blog focused on creating great software:Software Marketing 2012. His new site dedicated to Legacy Modernization issues is http://www.LegacyApplicationModernization.com He tweets actively as @SoftwareHollis Additional information is available at HollisTibbetts.com

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