Category Archives: Education Services
Developments Within Informatica Education Services
It’s been a few months since I last commented on what we have been doing to improve the service we provide in the area of customer and partner Education. As Informatica has evolved, so too have our education offerings. Let me explain:
An improved web experience
The first thing you may have noticed is that Informatica has completely overhauled our Education services web interface. The goal was to make the numerous educational offerings we have available much easier to find and register for. Customer feedback has been great and and they are telling us that the entire web experience is much improved – finding the relevant courses is easy, the website is intuitive and the course content is meaningful. Please take a look by clicking here. We simplified the interface to show the following: (more…)
Welcome To Informatica World 2010
Welcome To Informatica World 2010
Our annual gathering takes place this week in Washington D.C. We have a fabulous agenda with many significant keynotes, together with a packed agenda of breakout sessions – including over 40 presentations by you, our customers. An enormous amount has happened since we last gathered two years ago – remember last year when we were in the middle of the great recession when we held our “Deep Dive” preview of Informatica 9 to our closest customers and partners under NDA?
We followed the Deep Dive with the launch of Informatica 9 in November last year, followed by many new releases of our cloud service and other products within our Platform. We have deployed new communities and launched the Informatica Marketplace. We extended our Platform into Complex Event Processing, Master Data Management and Ultra Messaging. We have been recognized by Gartner as a leader in their magic quadrants for Data Integration, Data Quality and Customer Master Data Management. Forrester have positioned us as a leader in “Information-as-a-Service” and Data Quality and for the fifth consecutive year we are ranked number 1 in customer satisfaction. (more…)
Integration In 2020
The August 23rd issue of ComputerWorld contains a series of articles related to 2020 vision, megatrends, and careers. Predicting the future is always a risky business, but nonetheless the articles provide some interesting food for thought, and useful suggestions, for actions that should be taken now. (more…)
Demand Certification, Or Else
This article is one of a series on the topic of Knowledge Transfer, Best Practices, Training and Certification within the Data Integration community. Click here for an overview of the series.
In my previous blogs I wrote abut the various ways in which practitioners can improve their knowledge in Informatica technology. Of course nothing beats hands-on expertise and our certification program will provide proof of such ability. However, certification means nothing unless we all aspire to driving it – this means primarily you, our customers. (more…)
Astonishing Growth In Integration Jobs: Certification Is Key
This article is one of a series on the topic of Knowledge Transfer, Best Practices, Training and Certification within the Data Integration community. Click here for an overview of the series.
Data Integration is a high growth software industry. Gartner recently published a new research report looking into the enterprise software market (“Forecast Analysis: Enterprise Infrastructure Software Worldwide, 2009-2014, 2Q10 Update”, July 16, 2010). The report states:
The infrastructure market, which includes all the software to build, run and manage an enterprise, is the largest segment in terms of revenue and the fastest-growing through the forecast period at 5.8% CAGR. The hottest markets in this segment are security (10% CAGR), data integration and data quality (9.4% CAGR), business intelligence (8.2% CAGR) and virtualization (7.1% CAGR). (more…)
Top Seven Categories For Data Integration Knowledge
This article is one of a series on the topic of Knowledge Transfer, Best Practices, Training and Certification within the Data Integration community. Click here for an overview of the series.
Informatica offers a platform comprising eight critical technology areas that together help drive business value through trustworthy, actionable strategic information assets. These are Enterprise Data Integration (to integrate fragmented data across an enterprise); Cloud Data Integration (to control data off-premise); B2B Data Exchange (to share data with trading partners); Ultra Messaging (to deliver data at incredibly fast speeds); Application ILM (to manage the growing volumes of data); Data Quality (to ensure you can trust your data); Complex Event Processing (to enable you to act automatically on your data) and Master Data Management (to allow you to govern your data).
Our goal at Informatica is to help you deploy these technologies in the shortest time-frame and with the greatest value to your business requirements. As our community has grown, so has your ability to tap into an expanding community of Informatica practitioners. We are actively working with this community to ensure that it is skilled to the highest possible degree. To this end we provide a number of basic building blocks to ensure that they are representative of the high values we espouse to – including capabilities to improve the skills of individual practitioners, but also a community approach to sharing best practices amongst that community. (more…)
Knowledge Transfer, Best Practices, Training And Certification
During the Informatica 9 world tour, I travelled to many parts of the world speaking to customers about the role of Informatica within their organizations. I have been impressed with how people are using our technology and the way in which our Platform is providing value and benefit. However, one thing that has become clear in all the conversations I have had is that we need to do more in helping you to gain the knowledge necessary to extend your utilization of our Platform.
This is not just about taking a training course. This is far more than just that – it is about leveraging the power of the Informatica community, understanding what data integration technology can do, how it works and how to implement projects with industry best practices. Clearly we still have work to do in order to better communicate the great strides that we have made in these areas – for example, many people do not realize that we wrote the book on Integration Competency Centers, and are leading the industry in driving Lean Integration practices – we wrote that book too.
Over the coming weeks I am going to publish a series of blogs that looks at the areas of Knowledge Transfer, Best Practices, Training and Certification. I believe that these are all critical to ensuring the right level of skills are available to you, our customers – both within your own organizations and also within our partner community that you work with. Today there are many different places that you can go to in order to improve your knowledge, and we at Informatica want to do all that we can to help you work with the best skilled practitioners in the industry. We welcome your comments and input to help us broaden our offerings, enable our partners and ensure that the community has access to the relevant knowledge that is available to help you gain even more value from our technology. (more…)
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