Category Archives: Business Impact / Benefits
Informatica Ultra Messaging: Great Performance . . . At Lower Cost?
Printed words are good, but pictures and sound are better. Watch the video below for a quick summation of how Informatica Ultra Messaging can help your business:
- Increase application performance and throughput
- Reduce fixed and operational costs
- Increase capacity
- Reduce single points of failure
- Increase scalability, reliability, and availability
For more information, have a look at: Ultra Messaging, Better Value with Better Technology.
When It Comes to Data Quality Delivery, the Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff (Part 3 of 6)
In my previous post I discussed effective stakeholder management and communications as a key enabler of successful data quality delivery. In this blog, I will discuss the importance of demonstrated project management fundamentals.
Large-scale, complex enterprise Data Quality and Data Management efforts are characterized by numerous activities and tasks being performed iteratively by multiple resources, across multiple work streams, with high volume units of work (i.e. dozens of source systems and data objects, hundreds of tables, thousands of data elements, hundreds of thousands of data defects and millions of records). Without the means to effectively define, plan and manage these efforts, success is nearly impossible. (more…)
The Freshest Data Makes the Best Business Decisions
There’s no denying that business continues to accelerate its pace, and that the luxury of using historical data for business intelligence (BI) and planning is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Today, businesses need immediate insight into rapidly changing data in order to survive and thrive. Data that’s even a few hours old—let alone a few days old—is largely useless. But most current information architectures today still only provide data that is a day, a week, or sometimes as much as a month old.
This leaves most BI, reporting, and analytics systems to operate without up-to-date data from operational systems, data that’s fundamental to making informed decisions about the business. To operate at the speed of business, it’s imperative that executives and decision makers have ready access to fresh information at all times, delivered continuously and automatically without impact on operational systems.
More and more organizations have found the answer in data replication. Data replication allows you to work with and make the best business decisions based on the freshest data drawn from all your operational systems. It delivers this current, up-to-date data in a seamless and non-intrusive manner, empowering you to operate at the speed of your business without constraints. It also automatically delivers this data wherever it’s needed – for operational intelligence, as well as operational use – without direct impact.
This unique “data-on-demand” approach removes the constraints of stale, old information and enables powerful outcomes for business initiatives. Fresh, current data drives new thinking across the enterprise, and can help organizations to:
- Increase revenue, delight customers, and outshine the competition
- Improve the quality and efficiency of business decisions
- Standardize on a single reliable and scalable solution that lowers costs and removes complexity
At Informatica, we’ve seen numerous customers implement Informatica Data Replication to deliver this fresh, up-to-date data for operational intelligence, reporting, and analytics, and report tremendous positive changes to their business. Some examples of customers using Informatica Data Replication with great success are:
- Westlake Financial Systems saved hundreds of thousands of dollars and improved its profitability and customer satisfaction through a more effective payment collection system
- Optus Australia increased both revenues and customer satisfaction by providing calling plan access, alerting, and self-service upgrades directly to its customer base
- A major national pharmacy chain accelerated and improved health care decision making across the business and increased agility and responsiveness to its customers, resulting in higher customer satisfaction while driving down the cost of technology
Is your business ready to make the leap to true operational intelligence using the freshest data to make your business decisions? Do you want to understand more about the impact that this kind of insight can make to your business?
If yes, please join us for a discussion with two business executives who have seen the impact in their own and their customers’ businesses using data replication on August 28 at 10 am Pacific. You can register using the link below.
Bad Business Decision? Blame Stale Data – Register Today
The freshest data does make the best business decisions. We look forward to your joining and participating in the discussion.
Queensland Police Service Case Study: Use Your Bad Data To Build A Compelling Data Quality Business Case
Some might think that building a data quality business case is difficult and complicated – but it doesn’t have to be.
Graeme Campbell, former manager of the client services group at Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia
At InformaticaWorld, I had the pleasure of meeting Graeme Campbell, ex manager of the client services group at Queensland Police Service (QPS) in Australia, where he delivered a compelling presentation titled, Queensland Police Drive Out Crime with Informatica. My key takeaway: build a simple, business-focused and results-oriented business case that inspires action. (more…)
Yes, There is ROI in All That Big Data: Survey
Big data is not easy. For many companies, the sheer volume of big data now surging their their enterprises is overwhelming. And, there doesn’t seem to be enough skilled talent to help manage and analyze all this data. But the good news is that executives feel investments in big data initiatives are paying off.
That’s the word from Avanade, which just released the results of a survey of 569 business executives and IT leaders from across the globe. All in all, big data is seen as a positive force – 84% percent of respondents believe big data helps them make better business decisions. (more…)
Cloud Computing – Will History Repeat Itself or Will We Learn?
I was reading a blog from Forbes last week called “Will Big Data Flop Like CRM?”. The premise of the article is that collecting more data than ever before may simply let enterprises “screw-up in more detail.” It goes on to postulate that CRM has failed to deliver on it’s promise. It had me thinking, and commenting, since it gets to the heart of the fundamental issue enterprises are facing today – namely trying to drive value from a vastly complex world driven by an application centric era in which the very essence of the customer has been lost. Indeed, enterprises today have lost the ability to uncover the true value of data and interestingly we are in danger of repeating history again with the explosion of cloud applications that are hitting enterprises. So bear with me – this blog post is less to do with Big Data, but tries to answer the question “As CRM and other applications move to the cloud are we simply going to see history repeat itself?” (more…)
Ten Ways to Drive the Success of Your Metadata Initiative
We’ve all seen examples of metadata management and data governance initiatives that have failed. A number of customers have asked me about best practices for driving successful metadata initiatives.
Some are looking to grow their use of metadata beyond an IT productivity project into something larger such as a data stewardship or data governance initiative. Some are just getting started. In either event, here are my top ten recommendations based on conversations with customers and some of the great presentations and panel discussions at Informatica World. (more…)
Electronic Trading Moves Into Fixed Income
Evaluating a price in the Equities or Foreign Exchange (“FX”) markets does not require much calculation, and so one of the prime limiting factors on winning those trades has been the speed of data movement, from one application to another, either within the same host or across the network. But the world of Fixed Income, commonly known as “bonds”, is different. (more…)
Building Applications with Muscle–The Informatica OEM Program
Growing up I had an unhealthy obsession with classic American muscle cars. I was primarily a Mopar man, but really anything with enough steel, 300 or more horsepower, and a flashy paint job would do. I spent an altogether ridiculous amount of my youth studying the details of internal combustion engines, transmissions, carburetor cfm charts, gear and compression ratios, fluids’ viscosity and myriad other intricacies to prepare me for weekends under the hood of some monster from Detroit. Every night, you could find me devouring catalogues with page upon page of parts lists with their specifications and prices. One thing that always struck me was how many original parts used in these masterpieces of engineering were designed, developed, and delivered by companies whose badge was not on the hood of the car. OEM parts these were called. Why would these carmakers rely upon relatively unknown third parties to manufacture a huge percentage of the parts used in the cars? (more…)
When It Comes to Data Quality Delivery, the Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff (Part 2 of 6)
In my first post I introduced the concepts of hard skills and soft skills in the context of data quality delivery, and I identified 5 soft skills that I think are highly critical to data quality delivery success, and which are typically underestimated; stakeholder management and communications, financial management, project management, commercial applications and operations. In this blog, I will discuss effective stakeholder management and communications as a key enabler of successful data quality delivery. (more…)
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