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 [...]

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 [...]

The heart of an IOA is what we have chosen to call the middleware components. This set of software components connects the BI applications to the various BI data sources in a reliable way, delivering data to the applications in a timely manner. This is not a trivial task to achieve, requiring more than just [...]

Pervasive’s data integration jack-of-all trades, Paige Roberts, has just launched her new blog on ebizQ with a post about the natural conflict that exists between the business and implementation worlds when it comes to how to best manage BI data. She notes that “That delicate balance between business need and available resources is the crux [...]

In my last posting I discussed the data centric and process centric view of IT. Let’s now take this a little further and put these two views of the IT world on an equal footing. If we do that, then just as there is a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), there also needs to be an [...]