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May 15, 2012
An excellent predictor of the future is the past. That is, things with fundamental similarities tend to behave and develop in similar ways.
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May 11, 2012
We’re excited to announce that, today, members of the Liaison team will be serving as moderators at the 21st Annual Goizueta Marketing Strategy Consultancy (GMSC) Presentation Day Competition at Emory University. This event provides us with a great opportunity to show our support for the university and share our marketing insights with a community of current and future business professionals.
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May 10, 2012
Helene couldn’t stop talking about “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” She read quotes from it out loud. I didn’t get it.
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May 09, 2012
If you ask five people what cloud computing is, you will get six answers. Is a cloud what NASA uses for massive computations? Is it taking backups of a PC? Collaboratively editing documents online?
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May 07, 2012
I am honored to have been nominated for and served with wonderful business leaders on the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Leadership Class of 2012-Georgia Chapter. I would like to congratulate our class on blowing away our goal and raising over $166,000.00 for funding research to find a cure.
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May 03, 2012
Someone looking to become a Liaison customer asked me to write about creating complex maps. As I often say when speaking with customers and prospects, “We always take votes.”
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May 02, 2012
At Liaison’s recent partner conference, Converge, DWG was named the 2011 North American New Partner of the Year. We were very excited to receive the honor and thank Liaison Technologies and its North American Channel Manager, Nathan Camp for recognizing DWG and supporting our vision and growth over the life our relationship.
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Apr 30, 2012
Enterprises and midmarket organizations are increasingly looking to the cloud for data integration. And while vendors have offered integration in the cloud for a while now, a new term to describe the model emerged last year: Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). In simplest terms, iPaaS is a platform for building and deploying integrations within the cloud, and between the cloud and enterprise. With iPaaS, users can develop integration flows that connect applications residing in the cloud or on premise and then deploy them without installing or managing any hardware or middleware.
Continue reading the guest blog here on SandHill.com. In the article, Robert compares and contrasts two iPaaS options to help companies understand the pros and cons of both approaches in an effort to make it easier for IT decision makers to choose the best type of cloud-based integration solution for their organizations’ needs.
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Apr 27, 2012
While many conferences struggle to attract enough qualified participants, Bio-IT World Conference & Expo is an example of a conference that continues to grow by leaps and bounds in terms of both conference events and the number of attendees. With 12 tracks, it covers the gamut of how technology helps to leverage data, all in the name of transforming medicine. It is especially of interest to Liaison how these organizations are moving forward to figure out how to take advantage of the vast amount of information available to them, something that, for the most part, been stovepipe and neglected. Sessions on cloud computing and HIT solutions for personalized medicine and informatics were often standing room only and the keynote speaker required an “overflow” room for the first time.
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Apr 24, 2012
Last week I attended and presented at Liaison’s annual user/partner conference in Atlanta, GA. For me, it wasn’t about all of the technology or solutions that Liaison is rolling out for its partners and customers. It wasn’t about all of the wonderful insights that many of the speakers had - whether it was Dr. Jeff Norris from NASA talking about mission-critical agility (for whom I enjoyed thoroughly), or Daryl Plummer’s’ incredible insight into why cloud service brokers are necessary (also very enlightening).
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Apr 19, 2012
I remember studying memory caching techniques in my computer architecture course in college, learning about how memory is organized and about overall caching strategies. The Level 1 (L1) or primary cache is the primary form of storage, and considered to be the fastest form of data storage. The L1 cache exists directly on the processor (CPU) and is limited in size to data that is accessed often or that is considered critical for quick access.
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Apr 11, 2012
If you hear the sound of enthusiastic cheering, it’s coming from Liaison. One of our favorite customers—Paul Stamas—is a finalist for the Technological Advancement Award, one of six SearchCIO-Midmarket.com 2012 IT Leadership Awards to be announced later this month. The Vice President of IT at Mohawk Fine Papers was selected for his innovative cloud strategy, which has resulted in a major return-on-investment for the mid-sized paper manufacturer. Stamas revised his cloud strategy to reap the benefits of cloud computing more quickly and save his company money in the process. Tapping into Liaison’s Cloud Services Brokerage model, Stamas took advantage of our enterprise-class integration platform at a fraction of the purchase cost of comparable on-premises middleware products.
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Apr 09, 2012
I was recently at the at Interconnected Health 2012 conference in Chicago, and amongst the various topics being discussed, the most common theme popping up is the need for more standards to allow PHR, EMR and HIE networks to really take hold. I'm in no position to disagree with this, but I do find it interesting that an industry that uses so many acronyms (many of which represent existing data model and messaging standards) still feels like they don't have standards that are sufficient to solve their data integration challenges. Is it too much of a 'pie in the sky' idea to establish just a few data model and messaging standards that cover nearly all use cases, and expect wide adoption of the standard across the industry? Maybe it is.
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Apr 06, 2012
As a frequent conference junkie (speaker, exhibitor, attendee, crasher), I know that some conferences cover topics at the strategic and/or business level and others focus on the tactical and/or technical level. This week I’m at Interconnected Health 2012 which has presentations that cover the full gamut of these depending upon the speaker.
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Mar 29, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for Stage 2 a couple of weeks ago. The proposed rule specifies the criteria that eligible professionals (EPs) and hospitals must be meet to qualify for Electronic Health Record incentive payments.
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Mar 28, 2012
I recently returned from the End to End Clinical Data Management conference in Philadelphia where the Liaison team had the opportunity to talk with industry leaders and gain insight into new approaches surrounding electronic options for clinical data management.
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Mar 21, 2012
This is the last of a three part blog series that gives a techno-hug to underappreciated older technologies used in cloud-based data integrations. Last up: legacy systems!
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Mar 19, 2012
Managed file transfer (MFT) is a longstanding, well-accepted way for organizations to share business files point to point, quickly, reliably and securely. And while it may have lost its newness and “coolness,” it’s no less effective. That said, MFT is becoming cool again as it morphs and expands to play a critical role in moving large sets of Big Data as well as traditional business files to, from and through clouds.
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Mar 15, 2012
My refrigerator stopped working recently. This was not good. No warning, just kaput! This is drama of course. Food is now on a collision course for spoiling. It’s amazing to think, all we ask of a refrigerator is to keep things cold. When it works as expected, we take it for granted. When it stops, we feel great pain.
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Mar 14, 2012
The cover of a recent Harvard Business Review caught my eye. Its cover has a large smiley face and the words "The Value of Happiness How Employee Well-Being Drives Profits." I did just switch from being the chief architect for Contivo and am now director of product management and that means I have been thinking about happiness at the office.
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