Leveraging Information and Intelligence

Making Data Integration a Priority

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By David Linthicum on February 15, 2010 2:18 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
If there is one thing I hear from SOA/EA architects out there is that it's difficult to get the design, development, and deployment teams focused on the data. The real fun seems to be in the services and processes,... Read More..

SaaS BI Growing

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By David Linthicum on February 8, 2010 12:21 AM 3 Vote 0 Votes
Did you hear about SaaS BI? It's going to be exploding. "Mounting evidence suggests that in 2010, the hottest segment in BI (business intelligence) software will revolve around offerings delivered from the cloud, thanks to increased product sophistication, strained... Read More..

Linking MDM and the Semantic Web

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By David Linthicum on January 23, 2010 6:40 PM 2 Vote 0 Votes
I loved this Information Management article by J. Brooke Aker talking about the links organizations can make between the semantic Web and MDM. "MDM requires extensive understanding of business terminology and the context and importance of data. Furthermore, much... Read More..

BI continues to be a priority, but falling down the list

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By David Linthicum on January 17, 2010 12:58 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
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Fighting Terrorism with Data Governance

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By David Linthicum on January 9, 2010 12:44 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
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The Truth about BI and Privacy Issues

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By David Linthicum on January 4, 2010 12:08 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes
Who would have thought that BI would have a downside? However, like any powerful tool you can do good with it, or bad. While the idea behind business intelligence is to cull the right information from billions of individual... Read More..

Three Reasons why you Need Data Governance

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By David Linthicum on December 19, 2009 12:39 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
Those who are charged maintaining data already understand the need for data governance, but few actually practice it well. Why? It's really a matter of priorities really. Budgets and understanding best practices come to mind, as does the need... Read More..

4 Data Integration Predictions for 2010

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By David Linthicum on December 13, 2009 4:33 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
I think these are mandatory at this point, so here are mine. Forgive me. More consolidation in the data integration world. Most of the data integration companies have been around for a long time, and they are either huge... Read More..

How to sell Data Integration

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By David Linthicum on December 6, 2009 1:41 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes
In most cases Data Integration has to be sold within the enterprise. Indeed, if you're doing Data Integration right, you'll find that the cost quickly goes well into the millions. Thus you'll need executive approval for that kind of... Read More..

"Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools"...Consider it...Don't follow it.

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By David Linthicum on December 3, 2009 9:21 PM 6 Vote 0 Votes
I can tell when Gartner releases a "Magic Quadrant" because I get a dozen or so e-mails from vendors wanting me to know how well they did. "We're leaders." "We're visionaries." I get it. Of course, this week the "Magic... Read More..
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