customer data integration

Webinar: Breaking Down Integration Silos with Holistic Integration

January 10, 2012

[ February 7, 2012; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] I am giving a webinar with Talend on February 7th at 11am Pacific/2pm Eastern on holistic integration – the combination of data management, application integration and business process management for best in class integration.

You can register for the webinar here.

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Integration Roadmap #inext2010

November 3, 2010

The key goals or areas of focus for Pervasive in developing its roadmap are:

Connectivity
Verticals
Cloud
Data Quality/MDM
Internationalization
Management and Administration
Performance and scalability
… and partnerships to fill in any gaps

So, product by product, here are the things I thought were interesting

The Connectivity roadmap includes a focus on not just adding more connectors but also delivering a marketplace/community for pre-packaged [...]

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Pervasive Data Innovation #inext2010

November 2, 2010

Mike Hoskins, Pervasive’s CTO, opened the conference talking about Pervasive Data Innovation. Mike sees a wave of integration innovation coming in the next few year. Pervasive, if you don’t know them, is a 28 year old company with 250 employees and thousands of customers and is particularly strong with partners and ISVs. 39 consecutive profitable [...]

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Live from InterACT – Closing Keynote

April 30, 2008

Ted Iacobuzio of TowerGroup gave the closing keynote, expanding on the survey results Fair Isaac announced today. More than 100 of the InterACT attendees took the survey – clearly this is top of mind. Some highlights:

Lenders appreciate the need for integrated customer information and multi-product decisioning
Lenders are not all at the same speed in implementation
Respondents [...]

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Live from DAMA – Impact of Service Oriented Architecture on Data Modeling: A Case Study

March 20, 2008

First session today was some folks from Allstate Financial talking about the Impact of Service Oriented Architecture on Data Modeling: A Case Study. AllState Financial has the large number of data sources typical of a large corporation. Each line of business has its own administrative systems and mergers and acquisitions also create new data sources. [...]

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Live from DAMA – IBM Metadata Strategy – An Information Management Perspective

March 19, 2008

Last up for me today were some folks from IBM on IBM Metadata Strategy – An Information Management Perspective. IBM’s focus is Information on Demand – getting information about of the data management layer and into an integration layer from which it can be delivered as business intelligence and performance management. I, of course, would [...]

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Live from DAMA – Metadata enabled Business/IT Integration

March 19, 2008

Darren from ASG presented next on Metadata enabled Business/IT Integration. Business metadata can be contained in all sorts of things like data models, XML and database schemas, process definitions, ERP/CRM etc. Not clear who created what or which ones are “right” and things like mergers and acquisitions may create new problems. There is no “right” [...]

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Live from DAMA – A Reference Architecture for Integrating an Active Data Warehouse into the Real-Time Enterprise

March 18, 2008

Stephen Brobst of Teradata was next with A Reference Architecture for Integrating an Active Data Warehouse into the Real-Time Enterprise. He started with a great quote from a Gartner analyst:
No such thing as a business surprise – there is always a warning in advance
but were you listening – did you collect data about it, analyze [...]

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Live from DAMA – What do they mean, BUSINESS Metadata?

March 18, 2008

Next up was a session from some folks at ASG talking about business metadata. They started by discussing the metadata audience and how it is changing as the syntactic and semantic richness of metadata increases. Initially there was a focus on consistent definitions for, say, COBOL copy books. Gradually expanded out to DBAs, Data Architects [...]

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Live from DAMA – Yin and Yang of Process and Data

March 18, 2008

Neil and I are attending the DAMA conference this week and I will be blogging from some sessions. First one (after a fairly long set of announcements) is the Tuesday morning keynote, Michael Blechar of Gartner on The Yin & Yang of Process and Data: Which Will Be King of the Next Generation of Applications? [...]

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A curious reader asks…about enterprise metadata

December 11, 2007

Mike Kavis, a blogger on ITToolbox and Chief Architect, sent me an interesting question about enterprise metadata
He says “My company has huge amounts of historical data. We load 500M new rows a day and keep data for 116 weeks. I am trying to move this company away from being report writers to being [...]

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