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Five Cloud Integration Myths We Just Had to Debunk

With businesses basking in the overwhelming benefits of cloud computing, it’s all too easy to get lost in the swirling hype. In every corner (including IT), there are voices whispering myths of all va...

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Andrew Griffin

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CIOs, This Is How To Enrage Your CMO: Tell Her Marketo Integration Will Take Another Year

Being a CIO isn’t getting any easier. Cyber security threats are more sophisticated. Cloud migrations are in progress. Every type of as-a-Service offering is making your system, network, processes, an...

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Deepak Singh

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5 ‘Walking Dead’ Characters And Their Data Integration Project Equivalents

If you’ve ever watched The Walking Dead and been on a data integration project, you have GOT to have noticed some striking similarities....

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Michael Behling

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Anatomy Of An Application Integration Chicken

Application integration is not for the chicken-hearted.So many I.T. personnel and business users alike have been rotisserie’d over application integration that it’s no wonder they don’t want to cross ...

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Andrew Griffin

MixologistsGuide_Sharepoint
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7 Alcoholic Drinks To Imbibe As Your Sharepoint Integration Project Fails

As anyone who has ever done a SharePoint integration project knows, it can be challenging enough to drive one to drink. SharePoint integration is tough to get through without imbibing alcohol because,...

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Gaurav Sachdev

ButtIntegration
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7 Things Your Butt Can (Inadvertently) Do Today That It Couldn’t Do 30 Years Ago

Ah, the digital age. So much technological progress has occurred in the last 3 decades that has made life so much easier…so easy, in fact, that even our derrieres can perform many tasks with simplicit...

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Maryling Yu

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Game of Thrones Show vs. Game of Thrones Books: When You Deviate, You Dis-Integrate

For those of us who are diehard fans of the Game of Thrones books, this past Sunday’s episode created massive cognitive dissonance…and for me, massive internal dis-integration....

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Maryling Yu

HouseOfCards_ETL
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Why Your Current ETL Tools Are Just A House Of Cards

I’ve finally gotten around to watching the third season of “House of Cards,” and it’s as haunting and powerful as ever. It’s the type of show that makes me want to shower immediately after I watch it....

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Andrew Griffin

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How NetApp’s CIO and CMO Collaborate
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How NetApp’s CIO and CMO Collaborate

Does there have to be drama in the C-suite between the CIO and CMO? No, there doesn’t, at least not according to NetApp, a $6.5 billion storage technology company based in Sunnyvale, CA....

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Maryling Yu

Bling_BigDataRemix
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Big Data Don’t Want None Unless You Got Integration, Hon

I like big data and I cannot lie,You IT Pros can’t denyWhen a vendor walks in with an itty-bitty costAnd Big Data for your bossYou get sprung!...

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Deepak Singh

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Game of Thrones, Disruption, and the API Integration Industry

It took me a while to hop on the Game of Thrones bandwagon. Dragons? Ice Zombies? I didn’t think it would be my type of show....

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Andrew Griffin

MortalKombatX
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What Mortal Kombat X Can Teach Us About Data Integration

I stepped off a bus on my commute to work recently and saw this sign: It brought me back — waayyyy back — to my college days, when I used to go to the arcade and play Mortal Kombat II in an effort to ...

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Maryling Yu

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How Each Game of Thrones House Would Approach Corporate IT

I am the Game of Thrones fan to end all Game of Thrones fans. In my world, there is nothing more important than Daenerys retaking her rightful seat as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms....

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Maryling Yu

5Strategies
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5 Strategies For Avoiding The IT Project From Hell

As an IT manager, you have probably lived through an “IT project from hell.” A project where the requirements morphed every time you looked at them, the timelines were unrealistic, and the outcomes di...

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Raman Singh

ICD9-ICD10
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Thanks, Obamacare! Now I Have To Do ICD-9 To ICD-10 Conversion

The Affordable Care Act has caused quite the stir on both sides of the political aisle, but for the sake of this article, we’re not going to get into politics....

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Raman Singh

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What if Don Draper Were Your Company’s CIO?

With one of television’s most innovative programs beginning its final season this week, I thought it would be an appropriate time to reflect on Mad Men and the fascinating cultural perspective that ha...

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Andrew Griffin

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6 Trends My Dog Can Spot In 2015 for the Internet of Things

When I hear “Internet of Things,” (IoT) I usually think about teapots talking to refrigerators, and I wonder to myself, “What’s the point of that?” But actually, IoT can be quite useful in personal li...

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Jennifer Egan

HealthcareITLeaders
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4 Things Healthcare IT Leaders Are Thinking About Today

The presentation I enjoyed most at the recent IT Roadmap Conference and Expo in Chicago was Tom Arkins’ Mobile Data Access: The Next Generation of Health care IT....

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Maryling Yu

AnnoyingTasks
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The 6 Most Annoying Tasks in IT

We all have those tasks and chores we dread at work. For me, it’s filling out administrative paperwork of any kind and attending pointless meetings....

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Maryling Yu

Financial tunnel
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Beware These 3 Hidden Data Integration Software Costs That Can Bite You in the Budget

The majority of integration vendors sell Eclipse-based platforms (and I’ve previously written about why you should rather eat hot coals than use an Eclipse-based platform)....

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Raman Singh

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Why B2B Integration Takes So Darned Long

Have you ever had a variation of the following B2B data integration conversation with your IT department? Me: I want to somehow integrate the data in my marketing automation software with the data in ...

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Maryling Yu