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Mar 12, 2013
Integrating and managing data in enterprises requires people with different skills, knowledge, and vested interests to work together. People build things, not tools; and people make decisions, even if data guides the decision. At Liaison Technologies, as our name implies, we realize how essential the human is for managing and integrating data.
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Mar 06, 2013
Data integration is becoming increasingly challenging for enterprises. While cloud solutions are opening up new opportunities and efficiencies across all segments of the enterprise, integrating data across cloud applications, and between cloud and on-premise applications, must become a priority for enterprises if they hope to leverage the efficiencies of cloud and keep data secure.
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Feb 15, 2013
Combination of Claims and Clinical Data is the Holy Grail for ACO Analytics? Direct from Naveen Sarabu from eHealth's Annual Conference, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013
Some companies reorganize so often that it seems they can't get their act together. Yet some of those companies keep doing well, often really well. Perhaps those companies reorganize because they outgrew their previous structure and think that reorganizing will let them grow more.
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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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Mar 01, 2012
I am currently reading a great book about enterprise software entitled ‘How to Succeed in the Enterprise Software Market’ by Craig Le Clair. Even though the book was published back in 2005, many of the core ideas and principles still apply.
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Feb 14, 2012
At one point in time assembly lines were new. Once line and staff organization in businesses were new. Cloud computing and SOA are still new.
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Sep 14, 2011
One of the biggest challenges that companies face when trying to integrate with legacy SAP systems using IDocs, is the IDocs themselves. Even with new technology embracing XML, an IDoc is still an IDoc. There is still a considerable demand to be able to translate EDI to IDoc and IDoc to EDI. Take a look at this fragment of an IDoc. Then think about the process of modeling this data and writing a translation map to either convert this to EDI or vice-versa:
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Aug 23, 2011
As someone who has a lot of experience with developing data translation and integration software and solutions, I have come to be all too familiar with the phrase “The devil is in the details”. The issue is far more complex than one might think when designing an integration solution.
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Aug 03, 2011
“Programming by debugging” is taking something similar to what you want and adapting it until it becomes what you want. Contivo Analyst 5.0 lets you be guided by data to create maps. It still continues to let you use a more traditional approach — working with a mapping specification, and then testing the map with data. But version 5.0 lets you embed data into the mapping process in new ways, to let you work more efficiently and to use data samples as specification information.
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Jun 17, 2011
Watching the FIFA World Cup has me wondering what it sounds like out on the field and how the players and refs communicate. Body language is fairly universal, and at the end of the game talk doesn’t matter, but I’m certain there must be a need for some on-field translation at some point, and I can’t figure out how it’s done. Brazil plays Ivory Coast, Slovakia plays Paraguay, and the refs could be from just about anywhere. These sorts of matchups must stretch some linguistic limits.
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May 26, 2011
I’m happy to report that Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution (VMS) 5.0 is now shipping. This release constitutes a major upgrade to our patented integration solution to further improve the enterprise data transformation experience and increase productivity for smoother global and intra-enterprise data integration projects. It delivers:
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