Darren Cunningham

Darren Cunningham
Darren Cunningham is the VP of Marketing for Informatica Cloud. He is responsible for leading product, customer and program marketing initiatives for Informatica cloud data integration business, which received the 2011 CODiE Award for Best Cloud Management Solution and has been recognized by Salesforce.com customers as the best of AppExchange three years in a row.

Prior to Informatica, Darren was VP of Marketing at LucidEra, an early entrant in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence market. He led analytics product management and AppExchange data management partnerships at Salesforce.com in 2006 and 2007 and spent 7 years at Business Objects, where he managed product marketing for many of the company’s primary business intelligence, data integration, operational reporting, and performance management solutions. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto.

2012 Cloud Integration Predictions – Data, MDM, BI, Platform and IT as a Service

December 13, 2011 – 9:54 am

I spent last weekend reading Geoffrey Moore’s new book, Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past. Then on Sunday, the New York Times published this article about salesforce.com: A Leader in the Cloud Gains Rivals. Clearly “The Big Switch” is on. With this as a backdrop, the need for a [...]

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2011 #Cloud Integration Predictions in Review

November 22, 2011 – 7:12 am

‘Tis the season, but before I post my 2012 cloud integration predictions, I thought I’d spend a few minutes scoring how I did this year.  Last year I predicted the following: Cloud adoption will drive two-tier cloud integration strategies LOB-driven cloud integration projects will lead to strategic MDM initiatives Cloud integration platforms will emerge Database.com [...]

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Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 Announced

November 16, 2011 – 5:39 pm

This week we announced the 11th release of Informatica Cloud. What’s Informatica Cloud you ask? Well according to the our 2011 “Best Cloud Management” CODiE Award, Informatica Cloud is an, “easy-to-use, multi-tenant cloud integration service that empowers users to create, schedule and automate bi-directional cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise integration tasks without coding and without requiring a [...]

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Video: Informatica Cloud @ Dreamforce 2011 #df11

September 29, 2011 – 7:34 am

I discussed cloud integration and Informatica Cloud momentum and customer success with SIIA’s Rhianna Collier at Dreamforce 2011. Some of the questions: Are times changing when it comes to the importance of data integration to cloud computing adoption and success? With the growth of social and mobile, how is innovation changing your customer needs? Are [...]

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Data Integration Goes Mobile And Gets Cloudy At Dreamforce 2011

September 7, 2011 – 12:09 pm

It was quite a week. According to the Tweets from @benioff, “over 45,000 people gave us a week of their summer to attend Dreamforce 2011” – a truly amazing number and a truly amazing conference. Informatica customers and partners were also out in full force as the topic of data integration was front and center [...]

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