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		<title>Innovating Data Integration and Business in the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Big Data Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=758</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As more applications and services proliferate in the Cloud, it may well be that this overall Cloud tech arena will be instrumental in demonstrating the increasingly important role of data integration for meaningful and timely business processes and operations. Enterprises have already made a start with using Cloud services for on demand BI and analytics, [...]


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		<title>Oracle Acquires RightNow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RightNow</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oracle has completed its acquisition of RightNow and RightNow is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle. The combination of Oracle’s leading marketing, sales, ecommerce, search and business intelligence software with RightNow’s leading service capabilities, helps companies power great customer experiences in a seamless, personalized way across all channels and customer touchpoints: including on the [...]


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		<title>For Right-Time Analytics, Data Doesn’t Just Live in the EDW</title>
		<link>http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/integration-horizons/for-right-time-analytics-data-doesn%e2%80%99t-just-live-in-the-edw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration Horizons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Data Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Quality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether the focus of an enterprise is on “big data” or not, analytics-driven companies are faced with processing many new data sources from inside and outside the firewall. These data sources may be complex structures &#8212; or the complexities may come from other aspects such as data trading protocols and message transports. Depending on the [...]


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		<title>Big Ideas, Bright Minds Converge at IntegrationWorld-Europe 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/integration-horizons/big-ideas-bright-minds-converge-at-integrationworld-europe-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integration Horizons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SaaS/Cloud Integration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[DataCloud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IntegratioNEXT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metamorphosis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, about a hundred of Pervasive’s EMEA-based partners, customers and industry analysts gathered to discuss best practices and trends around data integration – including, cloud, Big Data, and data quality – at IntegrationWorld-Europe, which took place at the fabulously modern Cumberland Hotel in London. The event included an informative keynote from EMA Vice President Shawn Rogers who [...]


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		<title>Easy Steps to Create a Business Case for Data Integration</title>
		<link>http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/data-integration-david-linthicum/business-case-for-data-integration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Linthicum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Linthicum - Data Integration Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Linthicum Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integration costs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those who promote data integration within the enterprise typically consider the use of this approach and technology as common sense.  After all, we want to link our business critical systems together so they can exchange and externalize data.  The benefits are obvious to us. However, for those who are running the budgets, the movement to [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/data-integration-david-linthicum/data-integration-how-to-begin/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Data Integration Becoming Mission Critical &#8211; How To Begin'>Data Integration Becoming Mission Critical &#8211; How To Begin</a></li>
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		<title>The Problem with the Term “Big Data”</title>
		<link>http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/big-data/the-problem-with-the-term-%e2%80%9cbig-data%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Data Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Volume]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The term “big data” has become very popular in some segments of industry to describe the massive deluge of information that is being produced everyday in many formats. Forrester defines big data as techniques and technologies that make it economical to deal with data at an extreme scale. Big data is about three things: 1. [...]


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		<title>The Top 5 Data Integration New Year’s Resolutions for 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/data-integration-david-linthicum/top-5-data-integration-resolutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Linthicum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[David Linthicum - Data Integration Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Integration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ll it’s after the New Year, but January is not a bad time to list things that IT can do to improve data integration within the enterprise.  In many cases it’s time to approach data integration for the first time.  In others, it’s a matter of tuning things up.  Either case, it’s a good idea [...]


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		<title>The New Data “Entrepreneurs”</title>
		<link>http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/integration-horizons/the-new-data-%e2%80%9centrepreneurs%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Quality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/?p=732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the growing interest in the potential business value to be gleaned from “Big Data” or Extreme Information analytics, a new role has been gaining interest: the Data Scientist. The data scientist is a hybrid role encompassing computer science, advanced statistics/mathematics, forensics analytics and other advanced skills, as well as business savvy. The data scientist [...]


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		<title>No SQL Or Not Much SQL?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Bloor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NoSQL became a buzz word in the last 12 months. Why? The short explanation is that there are a number of new databases which don’t depend entirely on SQL (which we can think of as Not Only SQL databases) and some which don’t depend on SQL at all (which we can think of as absolutely [...]


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		<title>Data Migration Needs Business Data Experts</title>
		<link>http://www.dataintegrationblog.com/integration-horizons/data-migration-business-data-experts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julie Hunt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integration Horizons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[data profiling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over time, enterprises have usually considered data migrations a task that falls mostly to IT. Considering how crucial data migrations are to business processes, companies need to develop migration strategies that focus on the real purpose: business-ready and business-usable data. The owners of key business knowledge should be fully involved in plans and many tasks [...]


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