http://apatar.com/blogs/alex A blog on data integration, business intelligence and commercial open source Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:23:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Renat Khasanshyn, CEO of Apatar, and Jason Pratt of Autodesk will be presenting a session called, “Case Study: Professional Open Source at Autodesk“ on August 5 at LinuxWorld 2008 in San Francisco. They will be sharing their experience on applying open source Apatar data integration at Autodesk. For those who want to attend but ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2008/08/04/apatar-at-linuxworld-and-web-20-ny/ Recently I presented a "guest editorial" to ebizQ.net readers. In this article I tried to explain how to get started in the mashup business and monetize your mashup efforts. Six examples of possible monetization models might be of interest to mashup developers and remind you of the basics providing the success of ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2008/04/08/six-ways-to-monetize-your-mashup-development-skills/ Found a great post by Paul Weinberg observing a recent survey report by Taneja Group, storage and server industry analysts. They surveyed 238 IT decision-makers in North America and Great Britain around different industries. To give you an idea about the audience, I'd quote that "53 percent of users had 11 terabytes ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2008/01/29/unstructured-data-a-challenge-for-it-decision-makers/ Have you heard the news of the day? Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL. The two open source monsters are converging to deliver services and evolve together. "Being part of Sun will give MySQL more resources for everything from development, support, services, sales and marketing," Zack Urlocker, Executive Vice President of Products ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2008/01/16/open-source-globalization-goes-on/ Dear fellows, inviting you to read the technical article I’ve written for TechRepublic. Complete with diagrams, this how-to guide covers 5 steps necessary for building an integration with Salesforce.com. “If you’re considering or currently administering a SalesForce.com account, this article may help you explore how to integrate your CRM data between ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2008/01/12/step-by-step-integrating-salesforcecom-with-on-premises-databases-and-applications/ Dion Hinchcliffe explores "The 10 top challenges facing enterprise mashups" in a recent post. Have a look at his article to get an idea about the state of business mashups today. He raises urgent questions and issues. If enterprise mashups unleash hundreds of new applications inside an organization, then who will catalog them, support them, maintain ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2007/11/06/business-mashups-challenges/ Apatar participated in the Business Internet conference, held in Minsk, Belarus. Our presentation was entitled "Monetizing Media Content Using RSS Feeds". The event could have been better, actually. I wish there were more people interested in RSS technologies, Web 2.0, etc. in our section. I even cannot post video here, because the camera ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2007/10/09/business-internet-conf/ Well, guys, I'm taking a week off! I just need to waste some time to have my mind rested. Ok, I think I deserve it anyway. =)) This week I finally drafted a brief guide for each Apatar's connector. They all are available at http://www.apatarforge.org/wiki/display/GUI I know, there's a lot to be improved, but please ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2007/08/17/roadmap-for-the-next-month/ Currently I'm trying to post to Apatar's wiki at least one short manual per day. So if you guys are watching the topic, you will find more documentation within the next weeks. I have a goal to give the users more knowlegde so that they could find how to start and run Apatar Open Source ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2007/08/06/apatar-wiki-and-documentation/ Yesterday I've presented mashup technologies at the "Bynet 2.0" conference. Said too much about the business, though I didn't mean it. =)) Actually, I was too confused to think clearly.. Anyway, some say that it was quite interesting. Thank you a lot, guys! I'll upload the video tomorrow. Just need some time ... http://apatar.com/blogs/alex/2007/06/20/bynet-20-afterparty/