Walter Lindsay

Chief Architect

Walter is Chief Architect of Contivo Products.  He has worked in the data integration space for 11 years, and prior to that worked in the distributed systems management and RDBMS spaces.  In his free time he plays classical music on conch shells.

Recent Posts

  • Enabling the Masses in the Enterprise

    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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  • Tackling the Data Integration Challenge Head On

    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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  • Why Does Integration Architecture Matter?

    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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  • Controlling the Snarl

    Jan 08, 2013
    Thomas Kuhn, in his classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, showed how innovation often comes from outsiders, from people not entrenched in the thoughts and practices of a group. Virginia Postrel suggested that innovation comes from "the margins", from the boundaries of two or more things. In the world of entrepreneurs, the idea has been further refined to suggest that at the start of something new the market realities are not known, and that at times an organization needs to pivot, to change the value propositions it offers in the market.
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  • Where Things Go Wrong

    Dec 14, 2012
    Knowing why something went well last time is a tremendous asset for succeeding next time. When something doesn’t go well, growth comes from figuring out the reasons why. As my uncle Neil says, “If you aren’t failing 10% of the time you aren’t trying hard enough.” But if you don’t learn from that 10%, you are throwing away a better future.
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