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Gartner has predicted that in “2013 mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access device worldwide” and that “by 2015 media tablet shipments will reach around 50 percent of laptop shipments”. The prevalence of ‘work anywhere’ devices heralds a time of unprecedented change that is partly being driven by mobile and cloud [...]

  Craig Stedman at TechTarget had a very interesting article posted recently: “Big data growth increases data integration degree of difficulty.” In this article, Craig referred to a report published last December by IDC which estimated that the total count of data created or replicated worldwide in 2012 would add up to 2.8 zettabytes (ZB), [...]

The consumerization of IT has been accelerated by trends in B2C technologies that are now transforming B2B systems including data management solutions. B2C businesses have been indelibly impacted by cloud services, mobile devices and social media – that same impact is now rapidly transforming enterprise technology infrastructures and practices. BYOD is also bringing the consumer [...]

According to this Healthcare Finance News article, about $280 million in hospital readmissions penalties will be paid by 2,213 hospitals this year.  This is a result of the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).  It’s also a killer use case for data integration. “The key to effective [...]

While the IT group should be highlighted as an integral part of achieving M&A success, many enterprises fail to consider IT as an important strategic partner for the planning and execution of the new organization. When IT is not involved from day one, management often underestimates costs, effort and timelines for merging what are frequently [...]