Recently Joe McKendrick asked this question, "Is having SOA and Master Data Management at the same time a form of overkill?" . He argues that in fact they compliment each quite nicely: SOA in and of itself holds little value...
I never liked the term EII much to describe federated data services such as Oracle Data Service Integrator, so when I read the blog entry “Whatever happened to EII?” by Rob Karel and James Kobielus from Forrester, I felt confirmed...
It’s tempting. It’s all too easy to be the first to predict that SOA is dead. I’m the first to admit that I’m eager helping pick out the plot and the right size coffin. But let’s be thankful before we...
So rather than my own ramblings of the best and worst in 2008, I thought I would point you to other folks who have also reviewed the landscape. Consider this a review of other year in reviews! Number 5: Fernando...
Recently Timo Elliot, wrote four top reasons for "What Might Go Wrong in Business Intelligence in 2009". In his reason #2 he cites: Corporate cutbacks, "thou shalt not buy anything" policies, and new levels of sign-off will encourage some people...
According to Chris Kanaracus from Computerworld, Gartner has lowered its worldwide enterprise software spending forecast from $229.2 billion, instead of the $231.2 billion that it predicted in September. This was impacted by "a combination of economic, technical and regional forces."...
In respose to a comment on our Data Integration blog, we're seeing that Data Integration as well as MDM tends to be an overloaded term. Not surprising! Let's dive into this in a little more detail and see some of...
Ok we've seen these blogs all over the place now. We know we're in a recession. We know we want to do more with less in our IT budgets. Tell us something we don't already know. But this is taking...
The growth of the Data Integration segment has exceeded market expectations as companies recognize the fundamental importance of unified enterprise data. The market is now expected to exceed US $3 billion by 2012. Because the business drivers for data integration...
These are tough financial times, no matter where you sit. All of us in IT are retreating back to what's basic, what's essential, and what's critical for the business. Alas, there's one ray of hope for all those Data Integration,...
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