November 5, 2009 – 12:48 pm
According to a 2008 Forrester Research study, attracting and retaining top customers remains one of the highest priorities for CEOs today. Here’s why: The cost of losing one customer is four times higher than the cost of obtaining that same customer (Return on Behavior Magazine) Satisfying and retaining current customers is 3 to 10 times [...]
October 13, 2009 – 5:26 pm
I have firmly believed that a day would come when it would be you, my fellow integrators, telling me that one needs to data-orient first before benefiting from service-orientation. That day has indeed come! Just recently, I created a quick one question survey and sent it off to a number of application and enterprise architects [...]
September 6, 2008 – 8:15 am
It is “all about the data” is the response to this blog post by Joe McKendrick on ZDNet I couldn’t have said it more eloquently than as described below: “The data is a pivotal piece of an SOA (most IT approaches, really), and is often under-served by SOA initiatives and projects. Data is diverse, duplicated, [...]
By Ash Parikh
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Posted in Business Impact / Benefits, Data Integration, Data Services, Enterprise Data Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Integration Competency Centers, Operational Efficiency, Real-Time
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Also tagged Data Services, Real-Time Data Integration, Service Oriented Architecture, SOA
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August 23, 2008 – 1:10 pm
In one of my earlier posts I mentioned that in order to effectively enable business agility, businesses need access to information at the speed of business, or what is called “right-time” information. In that post I had also introduced the terms “Right-Time Information” and the “Information Latency Continuum.” In the recently concluded TDWI World Conference [...]
By Ash Parikh
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Posted in Business Impact / Benefits, Cloud Computing, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Services, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Data Management, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Identity Resolution, Integration Competency Centers, Operational Efficiency, Real-Time
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Also tagged Real-Time Data Integration, Right-Time Data Integration, Right-Time Information
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August 20, 2008 – 11:09 am
In my previous post I made a statement that SOA and BPM overlooked the complexity of integrating fragmented enterprise data. As I looked around me across the vast expanse of the World Wide Web, I ran into someone else who says it exactly like it is – Michael Dortch. In a recent post titled [...]
By Ash Parikh
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Posted in Business Impact / Benefits, Cloud Computing, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Services, Integration Competency Centers, Real-Time
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Also tagged BPM, Data Services, Information-As-A-Service, Service Oriented Architecture, SOA
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