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Go green with CDI

How much paper was used to deliver three copies of your glossy brochure in the same household? Every tried to estimate the impact on our environment of all the undeliverable direct mailers? How much fuel consumption can be reduced when orders  delivery can effectely be grouped together by geographic location?
Being more environmentally friendly is going [...]

Data Quality and SOA – how do they interact

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has gained much popularity in the past years as the model for application development that uses groups of services that are orchestrated around business processes. SOA involves more than just the manner in which applications are deployed and interact with each other – it also involves how they interact with data. 

Cloud Computing Entering Period of Accelerating Adoption

Last week I made a post on a Gartner Survey that showed increasing SaaS momentum in the economic down-turn. Well, the industry analyst seem to be tumbling all over each other to report on the accellerating pace of SaaS adoption, especially in relation to the current situation.
A couple of days ago IDC published a press release [...]

SaaS momentum in economic down times

Jeff Kelly from SearchDataManagerment.com writes about the momentum of SaaS based data quality and integration tools. With quotes from a survey done by research firm Gartner he writes about how “the on demand model is beginning to gain foothold in the industry”.
A few remarkable facts from the Gartner survey:

28% of companies have deployed SaaS-based data [...]

Platform, Software and Data as a Services?!

What are PaaS, SaaS and DaaS?
The IT industry loves acronomys and if you look for SaaS on the Acronymfinder.com webpage you find many more definitions then you could every dream up. 
The ‘as a Service’ category of software is getting a lot of attention with companies like SalesForce, Oracle (Siebel), Amazon, HP and Microsoft building strategies around [...]

Who are my customers?

For marketeers it is a daily struggle. Where are my customers, what do they like, how can I reach them? Building a single view of the customer requires knowing a fair bit about them.
Ideally you want to know more then the data points your organisation is able to collect like address, order history and phone [...]