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 [...]

Many organizations that have already deployed big data technology are now struggling to access, transform, and move data using conventional integration technology. Or, in many instances, they have no technology and are attempting to hand-code their way to success, which is never a good idea. As big data systems emerge, even data integration tasks once [...]

Toward the end of last year, GE began promoting an old concept in a new package called the “Internet of Things.”  This is also known as IoT, or, machine-to-machine (M2M), and various other names as we attempt to connect our devices into our networks, allowing them to share data.  I covered this concept in my [...]