JoeMcKendrick

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HR Systems ‘incompatible’: Oh when will they ever learn?

Vendors and analysts and consultants and systems integrators have been talking about…

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Does information technology create or destroy jobs? Or is this even the right question?

Is information technology destroying more jobs than it creates?  That’s long been…

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‘I Don’t Want Your Stinkin’ Cloud!’

Mark Maunder, founder and CEO of Feedjit, which offers a Website visitor…

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SOA, Cloud: It’s the Architecture That Matters

Note:  This is an update on a timeless and timely message originally…

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Data Virtualization: 6 Best Practices to Help the Business ‘get it’

Something that doesn’t get talked about enough in the service orientation world…

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‘Google-like IT Automation For the Rest of Us:’ Puppet and Chef

Wired’s Cade Metz just published an interesting piece on the Puppet and…

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Service-Oriented Architecture’s Role in the Emerging Hadoop World

To address Big Data challenges in a cost-effective way, many organizations are…

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10 Technology Trends that will Define Enterprise Architecture in the 2010s

Forrester Research’s Brian Hopkins and co-researchers recently assembled a list of the…

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Big Data: We Have the Technology, but Not the Vision

There’s been plenty said about how the power of data analytics will…

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SOA Raises the Bar on Elegant Systems

Scott Robinson, writing in TechRepublic, seemed to be writing an epitaph for…

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