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2012 is a “Leap Year,” where we get an extra day tagged onto the end of the month of February. It only occurs every four years, but why does it happen at all? Because the earth doesn’t orbit the sun in exactly 365 days; it’s more like 365 days and 6 hours, so we have to add an extra day to make that “leap” to keep the calendar consistent. In terms of the cloud, what great leaps have we seen in this area of technology? The concept of “cloud computing” actually dates back to the 1960s, but it didn’t begin …

Liaison is proud to announce that Contivo, its flagship enterprise data integration software suite, has passed SAP certification. We’ve supported compiling and deploying Contivo transforms into SAP Process Integration (PI) environment for quite some time. Now we have the rubber stamp to prove it. Liaison has certified that Contivo integrates with the SAP Netweaver Component Environment (CE) v7.1. SAP PI 7.1 leverages SOA functionalities for services enablement, processes orchestration and management using various SOA tools on SAP CE platform. SAP SOA tools provide various rich environments for implementation, management, provisioning and testing of enterprise services. The Contivo development team has …

By Gary Palgon, VP Healthcare Solutions, Liaison Healthcare Informatics Simplifying health information exchange how the cloud can help organizations get off the ground pdf About Liaison Liaison Technologies is a global data management and integration company. It provides innovative solutions to integrate, transform, harmonize, manage and secure critical business data on-premise or in the cloud. With a comprehensive array of business-to-business and application-to-application integration and data transformation services, as well as on-premise and cloud-based data security solutions, Liaison’s practitioners implement data management infrastructures adapted to each client’s specific business requirements. Headquartered in Atlanta, Liaison has offices in the Netherlands, Finland, …

By Walter Lindsay, Director of Solution Architecture, Liaison Technologies We are used to what we know. What is not familiar is not as trusted. This applies to business processes and IT just as much as it applies in other areas of life. I wanted to take a Sunday afternoon walk in Bengalaru (Bangalore, India) before a busy week of work. I poured over the satellite map and found a nearby forested park. It was not as I expected. I ran to the park and had to walk through an almost-pile of trash to enter it from a side street. The …

By Gary Palgon, VP Healthcare Solutions, Liaison Healthcare Informatics What a surprise to see that the HIMSS 2012 HIE Symposia was a sold-out event with more than 350 people attending to the tune of “standing-room only.” The day’s theme, “HIE: The Next Generation and Beyond”, was not only about the future of HIEs, but also covered the difficulties they have endured as the search for a sustainable model continues. Doug Fridsma, MD, PhD, director, Office of Standards and Interoperability, Office of the National Controller, reminded us at the start, “Interoperability is a journey, not a destination!” And it seemed pretty …

As the awards season kicks off again this year, I would like to express my delight and appreciation of being named a CRN Channel Chief and a Supply & Demand Chain Executive channel provider “Pro to Know.” I am flattered to receive this recognition from both CRN and Supply & Demand Chain and humbled to be noticed among technology industry experts for my work and leadership within the channel. This is an exciting accomplishment for me as I strive to be an effective leader and supply chain professional. Again, it is a great honor and personal achievement to be recognized …

By Robert Fox, VP Emerging Technologies, Liaison Technologies Recently I was asked to sit down and do an interview for SearchSOA to discuss the concept of a CSB (Cloud Services Brokerage). What I found interesting in discussing the topic, as it applies to cloud trends in general, was this idea that as companies move more of their business assets (processes, data, metadata, etc.) into the cloud, that a new problem arises – how to manage multiple cloud services? Obviously one of the main motivators for the CSB concept is that the consumer should not have to. However, I don’t want …

Guest Author:Michael Morgan This is the first of a three part blog series that gives some modern day love to older technologies that work seamlessly with cloud-based data integrations. First up: our good friend the File Transfer Protocol, Mr. FTP. Plug in the lava lamp, dust off your Rubik’s Cube and let’s boogie back to the days before widespread Internet commercialization or even the PC itself. Back in the day, computers typically filled entire rooms, cost millions, used vast amounts of power and were very specialized and slow. Only the biggest businesses or research institutions could afford them, and integration ranged …

By Chris Hale, Liaison Technologies Enterprise systems are too rigid and inflexible—just as they were a decade ago. Why? Because the ERP inside-out approach to service-oriented architecture (SOA) has not delivered as promised. Meanwhile, increased competition and customer demands require differentiated business strategies and processes and more inter-firm collaboration—flexibility in the face of rapid change, if you will. ERP systems are definitely not keeping up. They fail terribly at delivering speed and flexibility. At the same time, the cloud is providing businesses with more choices to use best-of-breed applications at a lower cost and with much more inherent flexibility. Today, …

By Walter Lindsay, Director of Solution Architecture, Liaison Technologies 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. Assembly lines, over decades, changed manufacturing, the way people thought about businesses, the organization of family life, the mental models we used in thinking about “nature” and even the language we used to talk about the human mind. This occurred in multiple stages over decades. My refrigerator holds mass-produced assembly line cheese. Inexpensive and hopefully nourishing, it is the same in every grocery store across the …