Informatica Perspectives

Yesterday Informatica announced a wave of support from customers and partners around the benefits of real-time data integration.  The term "real-time" gets interesting reactions from different people, so I thought I'd share my thoughts on this.  After all, the concept of real-time has been around for years.  So, what's different about our story?

The key is in the capabilities that are now provided - for the first time you can use a single software platform and choose the latency (or speed) with which data integration is performed.  If you need integration performed daily - that's cool.  However if you need it done on an hourly basis, or on a per-second basis then that's cool too.  Simply choose the latency you require and off you go.

The other great thing this gives you is insurance against the one truism that we all face in life - change.  Actually, not only change, but an accelerating rate of change and this is something that Informatica is really good it.  You see, with Informatica we can change your latency of integration without changing your software infrastructure.  If you have a chance, take a look at the "real-time index" that we've introduced.  This is important because it gives enterprises an agile infrastructure that is respondent to change - no need to recode and no need to rip out and replace.

So with Informatica we now enable enterprises to do real-time integration, or perhaps more importantly, right-time integration to meet their business requirements and deliver a level of agility to the business that was previously almost impossible to achieve.

Just like the Martini advert - any time, any place, anywhere … or perhaps … real-time, right-time and on-time.

What do you think - what does real time mean to your business?