Category Archives: Data Integration Platform
Gartner Points to Marketplaces as Key 2012 Trend
Recently, Gartner highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. Amongst the usual suspects of Cloud computing, social user experience, and mobile applications, App Stores and Marketplaces were highlighted for the first time. According to the report:
“Application stores by Apple and Android provide marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of applications are available to mobile users. This will grow from a consumer-only phenomena to an enterprise focus.” (more…)
Zombies! Yes, They Are Real and Lurking Everywhere
Zombies are pretty big in Hollywood these days. The movie Zombieland was a huge box office success and taught us some valuable lessons for surviving when zombies take over the world. There were over 30 rules revealed. My two favorites were: 1) Good Cardio – to outrun zombies and 4) Doubletap – shoot a zombie twice to make sure they are done.
Surprisingly, the movie never talked about ZOMBIE WORKFLOWS!!!
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The Future of Applications (2): Lowering Costs and Complexity
This is my second blog in a series on the subject of “Informatica & Applications”. You can read my previous blog here:
It’s strange how IT has become so complex. When we started out so many years ago computing was the answer to everything. It was going to make us more productive and was going to allow us to spend so much more time with our loved ones. Do you remember that time when people said “we’ll have a paperless office, and we’ll be finished by 5pm.”?
I wish!
The Future of Applications: From Sustaining to Enhancing to Transforming
People often say to me “you’re the ETL company – how’s it going?” With pride I reply “yes we were, but now we are a Data Integration company offering technology that helps companies with a variety of their business critical systems – particularly applications”.
This focus on “Applications” often surprises people and that is why on September 21st Informatica is launching a global marketing campaign looking at the role we play in relation to business critical applications – yes … those applications that automate business transactions and are critical to the success of every organization.
Please register today to join us in our opening webinar event that is hosted by InformationWeek. Click here. (more…)
Using Metadata To Manage Data Integration Change
Last week, a long-time Informatica customer told me about how he is managing change in his data integration environment on a truly massive scale. The story he told reminded me of someone doing a heart transplant on themself while running a marathon. … blindfolded.
- First, he is delivering several innovative new applications. One to improve customer service. Another, proactively monitors operational performance and suggests where the business needs to invest more to improve their capacity and service levels.
- Next, he is rolling out new systems that will collect customer sentiment analysis from social media sources (Big Data) and integrate that with ongoing campaigns and company planning. (more…)
The Innovation Premium
Recently I ran across an article from INSEAD (self-described as “The Business School for the World”), articulating a concept that they call “The Innovation Premium.” Essentially, it is “the premium the stock market gives a company because investors expect it to launch new offerings and enter new markets.” This is documented in detail in their recently published book, “The Innovator’s DNA”, co-authored with Clayton Christensen, noted professor and author of two previous books on innovation: “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and “The Innovator’s Solution.” (more…)
What Will the Software Industry Look Like in 3, 5, Even 10 Years From Now?
Recently Informatica’s Chairman and CEO Sohaib Abbasi was asked to provide commentary on the future of the software industry for SIIA’s annual Vision from the Top. The paper includes input from industry leaders from SIIA members such as Eloqua, GoodData, InsideView, Intuit, Marketo, Opsource, QlikView, Symantec and Xactly. In the the paper, he outlines how “the computer industry will be shaped by the current nexus of megatrends: Cloud Computing, Social Computing and Mobile Computing.”
Here is Sohaib Abbasi’s answer to the question: “What will the software industry look like in 3, 5, even 10 years from now?” (more…)
Video: Informatica 9.1 Helps Manage The Explosion Of Big Data
Ash Kulkarni, general manager, Enterprise Data Integration discusses:
1) What does Big Data mean to Informatica?
2) How is Informatica 9.1 is helping customers tackle Big Data challenges?
3) What data integration offerings within Informatica 9.1 are customers most excited about?
4) Predictions for the future of Big Data?
3 Ways Informatica 9.1 Delivers Authoritative And Trustworthy Data
One of the key themes of the Informatica 9.1 release is Authoritative and Trustworthy data. To set the stage, consider the imperatives that organizations are driving such as becoming more customer-centric to drive top line revenue, or optimize just-in-time procurement to drive costs out of the business, or comply with new Dodd Frank regulations. Not only do all these imperatives require organizations to be able to deliver business value faster and faster, but they span the organization across Lines of Business and geographies. In particular they require reliable global business processes and analytics to succeed, and that means that they need trusted data. For example, Procure-to-Pay processes and decisions rely on data across product data, vendor data, and financial data, and that data has to be trusted, meaning that it’s essential to have consistent, correct, and complete vendor price and performance data in order to determine preferred vendors and negotiate better contracts. (more…)
Informatica 9.1 Can Help You Be Captain Proactive
When something is really good, you’ve got to keep using it and last year the award-winning Comedy Central show South Park featured a character called “Captain Hindsight.” I won’t describe it, just watch it and please return to finish reading this blog. Here’s a link to a site with the perfect clip. 
As part of Informatica’s 9.1 launch, we are introducing a new offering called “Proactive PowerCenter Monitoring.” This will actually be an option for PowerCenter. (more…)
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