Category Archives: B2B

ANNOUNCING! The 2012 Data Virtualization Architect-to-Architect & Business Value Program

by Ash Parikh on January 25, 2012 – 7:30 am
Ash Parikh

Today, agility and timely visibility are critical to the business. No wonder CIO.com, states that business intelligence (BI) will be the top technology priority for CIOs in 2012. However, is your data architecture agile enough to handle these exacting demands?

In his blog Top 10 Business Intelligence Predictions For 2012, Boris Evelson of Forrester Research, Inc., states that traditional BI approaches often fall short for the two following reasons (among many others):

  • BI hasn’t fully empowered information workers, who still largely depend on IT
  • BI platforms, tools and applications aren’t agile enough Read More »
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What it Takes to Be a Leader in Data Virtualization!

by Ash Parikh on January 23, 2012 – 10:18 am
Ash Parikh

If you haven’t already, I think you should read The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012. For several reasons – one, to truly understand the space, and two, to understand the critical capabilities required to be a solution that solves real data integration problems.

At the very outset, let’s clearly define Data Virtualization. Simply put, Data Virtualization is foundational to Data Integration. It enables fast and direct access to the critical data and reports that the business needs and trusts. It is not to be confused with simple, traditional Data Federation. Instead, think of it as a superset which must complement existing data architectures to support BI agility, MDM and SOA. Read More »

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Gartner Points to Marketplaces as Key 2012 Trend

by Scott Geffre on November 4, 2011 – 12:01 am
Scott Geffre

Recently, Gartner highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. Amongst the usual suspects of Cloud computing, social user experience, and mobile applications, App Stores and Marketplaces were highlighted for the first time. According to the report:

“Application stores by Apple and Android provide marketplaces where hundreds of thousands of applications are available to mobile users. This will grow from a consumer-only phenomena to an enterprise focus.” Read More »

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Introducing HParser

by Julianna DeLua on November 2, 2011 – 4:02 am
Julianna DeLua

Today, Informatica is announcing the immediate availability of Informatica HParser, the first enterprise-class data parsing transformation solution for Hadoop environments. Available in a free community edition and commercial editions, Informatica HParser empowers organizations to maximize their Return on Data by extracting the value of complex, unstructured data traditionally under-exploited in the enterprise.  Please view how Ronen Schwartz, Vice President of Products, B2B Data Exchange and Data Transformation explains what drove Informatica to build and release HParser. Why We Built HParser.

To understand why this is important to the Hadoop community, let’s look at how organizations are using Hadoop today. In 2011, Ventana Research completed a benchmark research survey among 163 large scale data users. Read More »

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Apache Hadoop MapReduce Meets Informatica Data Parsing

by Informatica on November 2, 2011 – 4:00 am
Informatica

Guest blog from Arun C. Murthy, Founder & Architect, Hortonworks

As the framework architects and developers of Apache Hadoop MapReduce, we are always looking for ways to simplify the complex tasks associated with large-scale processing of data. We want users and organizations to spend their time on analyzing their growing data to gain valuable insights, not on menial tasks such as massaging their data for consumption or tediously parsing complex structures in their data. The Informatica HParser technology is extremely valuable in this regard. Read More »

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