Category Archives: Public Sector
What Is The Best Messaging Transport? All Of Them!
Software messaging uses transport protocols (such as TCP/IP) to move data from one machine to another or from one process to another process on the same machine.
Over the last 10 years or more, the array of transport protocols has evolved from a variety of factors, including the relentless need for speed and throughput, particularly with the growth of High Frequency Trading (HFT) that drives the low-latency messaging market.
In addition to those protocol changes, each transport protocol has inherent advantages and disadvantages. And then on top of that, the design of the message software itself has its own advantages and disadvantages, too. Oh, one more thing: competing network technologies like InfiniBand and emerging standards like 10GigE. (more…)
Customer Data Forum Off To A Great Start Featuring MDM
We launched a coast-to-coast Customer Data Forum road show with visits to Atlanta and Washington, D.C., that attracted business and IT professionals interested in using master data management (MDM) to attract and retain customers.
From the business side, our guests consisted of analysts, sales operations personnel, and business liaisons to IT, while the IT side was represented by enterprise and data architects, IT directors, and business intelligence and data warehousing professionals. In Washington, about half the audience was from public sector and government agencies. (more…)
Harnessing Social Media With Informatica
Improving sales and service through customer centricity requires listening to and understanding your customers. And where are customers speaking these days?
You guessed it—social media. Just think about it. Each day, customers tweet 50 million times on Twitter and update their Facebook status 60 million times. Add in LinkedIn and user reviews and YouTube and blog commentary and more and you’ve got a customer data gold mine and a new frontier for marketing.
WEBINAR: Increase Speed and Efficiency by Embedding Ultra Messaging
Increasingly, many customers find that legacy messaging middleware does not offer the performance, reliability, and flexibility that they need to support their computing environments.
To learn how you can use Informatica Ultra Messaging to gain strategic business benefits — like dramatic performance improvements (up to 10x) and reduced infrastructure costs and better scalability and reliability — be sure to attend the Informatica Ultra Messaging Webinar on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 1 p.m. ET (12 p.m. CT, 11 a.m. MT, 10 a.m. PT).
See Chris Treichel, former CTO of a leading trading firm, share success stories about Ultra Messaging. Also, learn more about the following benefits from Ultra Messaging experts:
- Reduced infrastructure costs
- Improved performance and throughput
- Increased scalability, reliability, resiliency, and deployment flexibility
For more details, or to register, click here.
Make Time an Asset not an Enemy
Do you know how long ago the earthquake in Haiti was? It was 9 months ago. For some reason, when I heard a recent report, that fact caught me off guard. Wow, 9 months ago! Next year will be 10 years after 9-11.
They say time is a constant but it certainly feels like it’s constantly speeding up and passing us by. It’s so easy to see how time is our enemy. After all it’s the only sure roadmap to all our earthly destinies (sorry for getting philosophical for a moment).
How do we turn time into an organizational asset? Time seems to always be the enemy when we are in a “reactive” state. This is when something bad has already happened and we are working to fix it.
But, instrumenting both technical and business operations to sense more granular activities and identify meaningful opportunities is the key way we turn time into an asset. So, do you fight time? Or do you take time by the horns and make it a strategic advantage?
We’ll be talking about being proactive when it comes to emergency services and public safety at Informatica World. I’m excited to have retired NYPD detective Gary Maio (now partner at Data Vision Group) and Bellingham Fire Chief Bill Boyd (Twitter handle ‘chiefb2‘) presenting on Wednesday, November 3rd at Informatica World in Washington, DC. They’ll talk about real cases, the challenges they face and the technology currently used along with their vision for the future – a future that will make us all safer.
Connecting The Needles In A Big Puzzle Picture Of Dots In Haystacks
Call it a composite or mashup cliche. It’s funny that we have a number of cliches that pretty much mean the same thing. I’m sure there’s a few missing here, but we all interchange these common sayings. Do you have a standby or are you like me and change them out constantly with the goal of meaning the same thing, but not saying the same thing?
- Connect the dots
- See the big picture
- Find a needle in the haystack (it sure sounds like the opposite of the big picture)
- Put the pieces of the puzzle together (more…)
Chicago Zero Latency Tour Event Coming Up Oct. 13
Some might ask, “Why should I go to a Zero Latency Tour event?” Here are a few reasons.
Do you want . . .
- Greater profitability?
- Greater performance from your existing hardware and messaging applications?
- Greater scalability and reliability?
- Real-world stories from others in the IT industry who have realized these goals by moving to Ultra Messaging® and it’s next-generation architecture?
These are all excellent reasons to attend this free show.
Featured speakers and panelists include John J. Lothian and Co. (keynote), Gelber Group, Lasalletech, and CTC.
If you would like to see presentations and video from our London ZLT event, click here.
For more, or to register, click over to the Zero Latency Tour 2010 – Chicago registration page.
911 – What Can Businesses Learn? Emergency Response Talk at InformaticaWorld
Talk about complex event processing! Did you remember seeing Minority Report and being blown away by the interface? Sure, no fire or police department has yet to find competent pool-dwelling psychics (aka ‘precogs’), but they continue to leverage some amazing technology. 
Can Data Quality Solve A 110 Billion Dollar Problem?
Recently the US Senate passed legislation, the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act, which would require US federal agencies to identify and reduce improper payments. Improper payments are defined as mistakes, waste, fraud, and abuse cumulatively costing the US tax payers $110 billion per year and growing. This is a staggering sum. Think about it – think of all of the things that we could fund either through government programs or back into our pockets. The financial incentive is there, but the challenge for the federal government is how to discover and prevent these improper payments. (more…)
The View From Over There: MDM Making Inroads With International Decision Makers
In late April I was in London to give the MDM keynote at Informatica World, and was surprised to be greeted by a standing-room-only crowd of at least 200 people. When I asked how many of those in attendance were actively engaged in or interested in evaluating MDM, at least a quarter of the room raised a hand. If I’d given the same talk two years ago, I would have expected a crowd of 100 at best, and maybe 10% of the room responding affirmatively to the same question.
Further, in discussions with conference attendees after my talk and in the days following, I got the strong impression that MDM is generating pretty intense interest in the U.K. and the larger EMEA market. While the MDM space in the U.S. has crossed the chasm from early adopters to nearly general use, I feel that Europe isn’t far behind. The interest is to the point where it feels like IT and business executives across quite a few industries are looking at MDM as a means to address a widening range of strategic business challenges. I’d say attitudes in Europe toward MDM are now very similar to where they are in the U.S.: that MDM is widely perceived as a viable technology approach to addressing business problems. (more…)
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