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 [...]

More and more organizations are realizing that data integration done RIGHT can be a key differentiator.  But, with the ever-changing integration landscape, how can IT professionals be sure they are taking the right approach?  Has the democratization of integration services thanks to Cloud and SaaS-based services made the lives of business and technology innovators easier, [...]

  The announcement came on April 28, 2011, during Pervasive’s Cloud Integration Summit, Metamorphosis, in Redwood, Ca. The news that Pervasive Software had launched a community platform for data integration, called Pervasive Galaxy soon rippled throughout the data management universe.  “Partners seek ecosystems to share, deliver, and monetize innovation to customers,” said Ray Wang, principal [...]

In a word – Yes. But it might not appear that way yet. So let me play the angel’s advocate and see where the logic takes us. The first point to make is that cloud computing is still young, in fact it’s very young – just out of kindergarten. So there are many CIO and [...]

1to1 Media covered “10 Marketing Trends to Watch in 2011,” which is not that surprising.  However, in the world of marketing, this item on the list was unexpected: “2. Data integration becomes mission critical.  Now that there’s so much more data with the advent of social media, marketers must look beyond their traditional sources of [...]