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At Liaison, we’re excited about a new report published by 451 Research, a preeminent information and technology research and advisory group. In our view, the Market Insight report, “Liaison seeks to replace legacy middleware with ALLOY integration and data management,” is right on target. It accurately describes our business strategy, showing that savvy analysts “get it” —  Liaison’s ALLOY Platform is perfectly positioned for this moment. The report talks about our belief that marketplace factors are driving enterprise adoption of new solutions to “integrate, harmonize and mine multiple data sources in real time to deliver the insight necessary to compete …

If you bought a single bitcoin at the start of 2017, you would have paid roughly $1,000. Assuming you did not spend it, that single bitcoin would have grown six-fold to $7,000 today. With such an enormous rate of growth since it was conceptualized in 2007, bitcoin is riding on a huge wave of investors with a market capitalization reaching over $100 billion. While financial experts and investors are still divided on bitcoin’s long-term viability as well on what exactly it is—whether it is an asset,  currency, or commodity—what is not up for debate is the tremendous potential of the …

In its 8th year, I once again attended Georgia’s Health IT Leadership Summit, a room filled with several hundred Health IT professionals with the interest of sharing ideas around improving patient care through IT progress. Shahid Shah, “The Healthcare IT Guy” opened up the day with inspiring thoughts about “How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Will Impact the Role of Clinicians”.  With systems integration key to moving from data silos of electronic information that exist in EMRs and wearables to a world of harmonized data, we’re making progress. The question becomes can we skip basic data analytics, push …

It’s not too late to catch up with the digital revolution. But enterprises can no longer afford to wait now that industries are being disrupted at a much faster rate. According to Gartner, “Digitalization is the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities…” This definition highlights the two key elements of utilizing digital technologies — such as Big Data, e-commerce, and the IoT — and the objective of creating business advantages and benefits. Digital Operational Excellence: 3 Examples of Digital Transformation According to Forrester, transforming business operations through “digital operational excellence” …

In September, Equifax suffered a major security breach that outraged millions of American consumers. According to Equifax, sensitive information such as social security numbers and driver’s licenses of around 143 million Americans were potentially compromised during the hack. The credit card numbers of more than 200,000 consumers were also stolen along with 182,000 other documents which contained personal information. Recent years have been marked by several major cybersecurity attacks and the Equifax breach was just one of them. Among many other incidents, we also saw how internet-enabled devices were used to conduct DDoS attacks and how ransomware emerged as the …

Liaison’s mission is to help companies achieve digital transformation with cutting-edge technologies like our award-winning Liaison ALLOY™ Platform. To achieve that, we frequently partner with other technology leaders to help clients improve data integration and management. Liaison is a SAP Ariba technology partner for integration, meaning we work with SAP Ariba to enable their customers to integrate Ariba solutions into their ERP systems and to the SAP Ariba Cloud Integration Gateway (CIG). We’re honored to work with such an outstanding organization. That’s why we take special pride in congratulating SAP Ariba on being named a leader in eProcurement by highly …

Today’s businesses are undergoing a digital transformation. The Internet of Things (IoT) is making smart homes, smart factories, and smart cities possible. Autonomous vehicles are changing the transportation industry. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling predictive approaches to decision making and driving business insights. This digital transformation that is sweeping industries by storm would not be possible without data. Data is the enabler of new technologies and solutions. Data is where important and actionable business insights are derived. Yet, most executives and decision makers are concerned about the quality of data on which their solutions and insights depend. Many …

Many companies rely on Integration Platform as a Service (IPaaS) solutions to patch the gaps that result from using an enterprise application integration (EAI) framework or enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture to integrate cloud-based and on-premises applications and services. That means they face a resource allocation dilemma: As more and more applications migrate to the cloud, companies must devote more IT resources to create and maintain DIY integration solutions. The dilemma is compounded by the scarcity of developers with the skillsets required for the in-house integration projects. Since the legacy middleware involved was often created a generation ago, it gets …

A study conducted by Newcastle University experts claims that criminals take only six seconds to guess credit card numbers and security codes. Using information gathered from other websites, hackers and criminals are able to systematically determine the correct credit card number and security code in a matter of seconds. Together with a general increase in credit card and online transactions, it is no longer sufficient for retailers, whether online or offline, to stick with traditional methods of securing cardholder data in their systems. Enter tokenization. Tokenization replaces sensitive information such as credit card numbers with an incomprehensible set of characters …

Consulting firm PwC reports that the global demand for manufactured products will only grow by 3.4% in 2017 following an almost similar growth of only 3.1% in 2016 according to the International Monetary Fund. This demand is not expected to pick up any time soon. The increasing nationalist movements around the world are leading to possible changes in trade agreements which could further impact the growth of the industry as many global manufacturers take a “wait and see” approach to capital expenditures, says PwC. In response to these trends, manufacturing companies are recognizing the importance of increasing their productivity and efficiency, …