Bertrand Cariou

Bertrand Cariou
Bertrand works for the Data Integration Business Unit in Product Management. He focuses on evangelizing Informatica’s platform usage in the broader Data Integration space to support operational data integration use cases such as Data Integration for applications, data replication, data delivered as a service and data quality firewalls.

Prior to Informatica he co-founded the Informatica distributor office in France in 1998, leading the technical direction and execution of the company. In 2002 Informatica acquired the distributor to become the direct sales presence in France. Bertrand moved to Informatica’s US headquarters in 2008 to lead global efforts to evangelize Informatica platform usage in the Operational Data Integration market.

Bertrand has almost 20 years in the computer industry with a background in computer science, software and electronics. He has worked as a developer and project manager in counter-measure systems for fighter jets then transitioned in to the software industry. Bertrand has also worked as an expert evangelizing Microsoft MS SQLServer in the early days and published a book on the topic.

mySOA: Customized, Agile And Sustainable SOA Real-life Experience

January 22, 2010 – 9:07 am

It’s not that often that I see such a great article on SOA. Most of the time these types of articles are full of theory or are written by software vendors pushing their own solutions. It makes much more sense to read from an experienced hands-on expert, as they share their SOA journey. In fact, [...]

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Next Time, I Go Shopping I’ll Make A Shopping List First

November 3, 2009 – 2:58 pm

Imagine, you decide to organize a Halloween party at your house. I’m sure you’d start by making a list of all the necessary items you would need – food, drinks, decorations. You’d take a look at what you already had at home before you decide to go shopping to get your supplies. In two or [...]

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The Right Way To Do Data Integration For Applications

October 8, 2009 – 1:00 am

On the 1st October 2009, I participated in a webinar “The Right Way to Do Data Integration for Applications,” hosted by David S. Linthicum, a recognized expert in SOA, Cloud computing and Enterprise Application Integration. It was an event that was very well attended and generated a lot of interest from the attendees judging by [...]

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What Would A Person Be Without Nerve Endings?

September 29, 2009 – 7:00 am

Recently I was talking with some system integrators and customers regarding the rapid adoption of Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines and the range of new and promising uses to bring more agility and control to companies. We quickly agreed that without providing the CEP engine with individual events to feed it, the CEP engine would [...]

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