Many in IT don’t understand how much better data integration software has become in recent years, and how this technology is much more cost effective.  The close comparison would be the advances and cost reductions made in consumer electronics.  These days you can buy a 40” flat screen for about $400 from any Costco, when [...]

The imperative for enterprise-wide data strategies has never been stronger than these days of ever-proliferating sources of data (machine-generated, social media, terabytes of internally stored data) and new computing platforms (different cloud configurations, cloud to/from on-premises). Adding fuel to the fire is the increasing interest in all kinds of analytics to help drive competitive edge [...]

Companies are attracted to cloud services because they are frequently quick and easy to use, while keeping many costs down. Unfortunately the characteristics that draw many customers to the Cloud are the same ones that can “blind” those users to the critical need for managing both the data and quality of the data that results [...]

Almost two years ago the late lamented Steve Jobs declared that we had entered the post-PC era. Maybe he was a little late to the party. The post-PC era was heralded when mobile phone sales by unit began to outnumber PC sales buy unit and that was over ten years ago. Its arrival was confirmed [...]

As more applications and services proliferate in the Cloud, it may well be that this overall Cloud tech arena will be instrumental in demonstrating the increasingly important role of data integration for meaningful and timely business processes and operations. Enterprises have already made a start with using Cloud services for on demand BI and analytics, [...]