Over my career, I’ve had the opportunity to lead the integration of close to 60 global acquisitions–all in the technology space. From 1998-2002, I led the Cisco HR Acquisition Integration team during ...

Integration is the third rail of corporate IT. The mere mention of the word raises terrifying thoughts of huge budgets, endless meetings and extremely complicated software. Integration projects can be ...

The other day, I gave you Nick Carr's take on the recent Web 2.0 Summit. Needless to say, he is not a fan of the concept. ZDNet blogging colleague Dion Hinchcliffe, however, has this uncanny ability ...

JPA-based applications can't connect to a database on their own. Rather, they need help in terms of what credentials to use, which schema to seek, which JDBC driver to select and which annotated ...

Processes and process automation take many forms. Here’s how to navigate the growing ecosystem of tools for automating everything from simple repetitive tasks to complex custom workflows. In 2015, ...

Usually, I use the Serial Monitor of the Arduino IDE to communicate with the Arduino hardware. But now, I want to build an application on my computer that allows me to click some buttons to control ...