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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 ICC 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 […]
September 16, 2008
How are you spending your IT budget these days? The stock market is down, housing prices are down, the cost of everything including food […]
September 4, 2008
My last column was about hyped trends. There are other industry trends that don’t get all the hype but are happening quietly. These trends are taking hold […]
August 28, 2008
Each year, industry analysts, experts and vendors bombard us with acronyms for the next big trend. There are several ways to examine these trends to determine […]
June 11, 2007
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications have created a lot of excitement and buzz. But combine all this SaaS enthusiasm with the business intelligence goals of […]
May 28, 2007
Data quality management needs to be an integral part of the design and planning of your corporate performance management (CPM), business intelligence (BI) or data warehouse […]
March 5, 2007
In The Trial-and-Error Method for Data Architecture I discussed some common data architecture mistakes. In this article, I point out areas where companies tend to go wrong in […]
December 8, 2006
In my previous post I discussed the Gartner Research “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2006” and that Gartner has decided to supplant its “Magic Quadrant […]
December 5, 2006
Gartner Research published its “Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, 2006” on November 22, 2006. It has been eighteen months since they published the “Magic Quadrant […]
October 16, 2006
IT Business Edge asked me three questions on helping customers address data quality issues, which many companies tend to avoid addressing at all. You’ve written that […]
September 11, 2006
Compliance, competitive business requirements and increasing data volumes are driving companies to rethink data integration strategies. My first podcast with SearchDataManagement.com gives a comprehensive overview of […]
August 7, 2006
New technologies aren’t a shortcut for data integration. Whatever application integration tool you use, you still need to integrate data the old-fashioned way — by talking […]
July 24, 2006
Vendor packages may offer the allure of off-the-shelf solutions that take almost no work and instantly provide the business with the answers to all their questions. […]
July 17, 2006
Just because you’re already using a vendor’s ERP system doesn’t mean that their data warehouse package is going to be a quick add-on. If you had […]
July 6, 2006
IT people tell me they’re implementing dashboards, expecting them to expand the use of their data warehouse/data mart environments and unleash the terabytes of data that […]
June 29, 2006
You think so, do you? If you don’t work with the business users, how are you going to know their real needs? How will you understand […]
June 22, 2006
It’s tempting to ignore this. However, the promise of businessresults is what gets a project staffed and implemented; therefore, aninternal awareness and marketing campaign is essential. […]
June 15, 2006
You can have a great architectural solution, but if it doesn’t meet the business users’ exact needs, they won’t give up their trusty stovepipes. You can […]
June 8, 2006
Sure they are, but at what cost? When one of them asks a question, their staff and others run off, gather data, manipulate it and produce […]
