Ron Papas

Ron Papas
Ron Papas is General Manager of Informatica’s On Demand Business Unit and is responsible for delivering integration solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud-based applications. He joined Informatica in 1996 as the company’s first sales representative, and has held several positions including SVP of Business Development, SVP of Alliances and VP of Sales for Analytic Applications.

Prior to Informatica he spent 5 years at Sybase in various sales and pre-sales roles. Mr Papas has over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry and started his career as a Software Engineer with Gould Computer Systems. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

Understanding Cloud Integration

August 6, 2009 – 10:24 am

There’s no question that Cloud Computing, enabled by the maturity of the web, has become the latest computing platform and is here to stay.  One of the key reasons behind its universal appeal is that the cloud offers real benefits to both business and IT constituents. Business users were first attracted to cloud applications (Software-as-a-Service) [...]

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Don’t Get Lost In The Clouds – SaaS Integration Starts With Ease Of Use And Rapid Deployment!

April 23, 2009 – 3:08 pm

If you’re in the market for a SaaS integration tool, then you’ve probably come across one or more of the following marketing messages: “Integrate in days”, “Designed for non-programmers”, “Configuration, not coding approach”… which, of course, are all messages associated with one of the main value propositions of Software-as-a-Service: Ease of use and rapid deployment. [...]

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Salesforce.com Integration – Inside Out or Outside In?

February 26, 2009 – 5:27 pm

People have begun to realize that integration is a key requirement for a successful SaaS application deployment.  Since a SaaS application like Salesforce CRM resides in the cloud (it is hosted in a data center outside your company’s firewalls), customers need to move their critical corporate data like customer, product or pricing information into Salesforce [...]

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