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December 28, 2017
Understanding the data integration process is central to self-service BI and data architecture design, consultant Rick Sherman says in an end-of-year look at data management trends. […]
April 27, 2017
If your data is a mess, what are you waiting for? Like many other companies, maybe yours has been ignoring a lot of the things that […]
May 31, 2016
As the need to pull together the growing volumes of data that’s generated and collected by organizations has increased, several types of data integration software have […]
May 24, 2016
Selecting the right data integration product is critical to meeting the increasing demand in companies for data that can help drive more informed business decisions. The […]
May 17, 2016
The growing importance of business intelligence and data analytics applications in driving business decision making has made data integration’s vital role in the enterprise crystal clear. […]
May 11, 2016
Whether we’re discussing the impact that the tsunami of big data is having on organizations or the cloud application takeover of traditional on-premises applications, the common […]
April 12, 2016
The 20th annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. Rick Sherman will be conducing […]
November 28, 2014
Data integration software is now much more than just extract, transform and load tools — it encompasses a wide range of platforms and technologies supporting real-time […]
September 19, 2012
The good news is that enterprises have recognized the significant business value of analyzing the surging amount of information and then acting upon that analysis. The bad […]
August 30, 2012
SearchDataManagement recently interviewed me about automated data integration tools versus manual coding: Data integration is often still done by hand, through SQL coding and stored procedures, according […]
August 15, 2012
I’ll be on DM Radio this Thursday, August 16, 2012, 03:00PM ET. Registration. Here’s what it’s all about: Getting data where it needs to go is […]
August 8, 2012
There’s no question that data integration technology is a good thing. So why aren’t businesses using it as much as they should be? Data integration software […]
March 8, 2012
Manually-coded extracts are another dirty secret of the BI world. I’ve been seeing them for years, in both large and small companies. They grow haphazardly and […]
September 22, 2011
In my discussions with clients, prospects, students and networking with folks at seminars I am always asked about my opinion or recommendations on data integration and […]
July 13, 2011
Establishing and operating an Integration Competency Center (ICC) is clearly an effective approach to breaking down the business, budgetary and political silos within many enterprises. These […]
June 29, 2011
When I teach data integration concepts in my classes at various corporations or to my students at Northeastern University, one of the topics I address is […]
June 20, 2011
Data quality and data integration challenges are two of the biggest problems plaguing BI initiatives. Mark Brunelli of SearchDataManagement.com interviewed me the other day for their […]
April 27, 2011
There is a lot of buzz in the industry about the emerging class of customer data integration software that businesses are using to gain a single […]
April 20, 2011
How profitable are your customers? What have they purchased lately? Are there opportunities to up-sell and cross-sell to them? You and everyone else in your organization […]
March 17, 2010
My latest podcast: New technologies, techniques for on-premise and SaaS data integration Software as a Service (SaaS) data integration is an emerging technology some companies are […]
January 29, 2010
My new video with SearchDataManagement.com: Solving your application and data integration challenges Because of the poor economy and corporate demands to increase revenue while cutting costs, […]
January 26, 2010
As we begin both a New Year and new decade in 2010 it is a great time to discuss the significant trends impacting the data integration […]
November 17, 2009
I’m not only concerned about hand-coding versus ETL tools; I’m also concerned that potential buyers of ETL tools and the market in general are only looking […]
November 6, 2009
This is a continuation of an earlier post that discussed the problems of hand-coding using ETL tools. What Went Wrong? There are two aspects of effectively […]
November 4, 2009
We are creatures of habit. It’s not easy to stop doing something the way we’ve always done it. Especially when we think we are right (but […]
October 28, 2009
There are many emerging data integration strategies and technologies that IT can leverage to create the information needed for their business. When examining these, it is […]
September 28, 2009
This decade, and especially this recession, has seen a tsunami in demand for the data needed to make sound business decisions. Yet businesses continue to fall […]
August 25, 2009
As we discussed in my last People, Process & Politics post, the four organizational models most often used to implement ICCs are: common practices, technology standards, […]
July 31, 2009
In our “People, Process & Politics” series we have discussed how non-technical aspects of business intelligence, data integration or data warehousing projects are the critical components of […]
June 30, 2009
Data integration suffers from an image problem. It has become synonymous with extract, transform and load (ETL). Likewise, ETL has been regarded as a data warehousing (DW) technology. Both […]
June 24, 2009
In our previous post People, Process & Politics: Stop the (Integration) Madness we discussed how we have promoted integration silos by fragmenting those efforts across organizations, […]
May 18, 2009
Data Integration: Increasing its Success and ROI (120.1 KB) Enterprises need to take a new approach to information and data integration. First, business and IT people […]
February 19, 2009
Data integration suffers from an image problem. It has become synonymous with extract, transform and load. Likewise, ETL has been regarded as a data warehousing technology. […]
January 28, 2009
I'll be on DM Radio Thursday Jan 29 at 3:00 EST. We'll be discussing how to design, evangelize and manage data integration projects. Sami Akbay of […]
October 2, 2008
In 2003, the inaugural column I wrote discussed the Data Integration Framework (DIF). This approach is the foundation that I have used for more than 20 […]