Those who promote data integration within the enterprise typically consider the use of this approach and technology as common sense.  After all, we want to link our business critical systems together so they can exchange and externalize data.  The benefits are obvious to us. However, for those who are running the budgets, the movement to [...]

We’ll it’s after the New Year, but January is not a bad time to list things that IT can do to improve data integration within the enterprise.  In many cases it’s time to approach data integration for the first time.  In others, it’s a matter of tuning things up.  Either case, it’s a good idea [...]

  I’ve been talking about big data, and the need for big data integration for some time now.  The concept is rather simple.  If we are moving to a big data platform, typically within a cloud, and typically consolidating enterprise data, then we must have a workable data integration strategy and the right technology. Let’s [...]

I work in the healthcare vertical quite a bit these days.  What I see has really opened my eyes to the need for a sound data integration strategy and a good base of data integration technology.  In many cases the amount of information in silos is not only undesirable from the standpoint of healthcare providers, [...]

It’s Monday morning, and I’m on a call with a client.  They want to move aspects of their existing IT assets (applications and data) to both public clouds (including IaaS and SaaS) and a new internal virtualized infrastructure.  The data integration strategy is well-defined in terms of data synchronization between the public clouds and the [...]