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Introducing HParser

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

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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Start Running Because The Data Tsunami Is Approaching

by Chris Parsons on October 10, 2011 – 2:53 am

The phrase ‘Data Tsunami’ has been used by numerous authors in the last few months and it’s difficult to find another suitable analogy because what’s approaching is of such an increased order of magnitude that the IT industries continued expectations for data growth will be swamped in the next few years.
However impressive a spectacle a Tsunami is, it still wreaks havoc to those who are unprepared or believe they can tread water and simply float to the surface when the trouble has passed.

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Why You Need to Re-think Implementing An Integrated Customer Service Hub

by Chris Parsons on September 8, 2011 – 2:49 am

In the evolution of Billing ‘thinking’ for Telcos we’ve seen everything from ‘All you can eat’ offers to ‘Another coin in the slot’. But this perennial business process black-hole can prove to be an area that can add to a Telcos armory in retaining and keeping happy its corporate customers. Not only this but following on from lessons learnt by the Financial Services community it can provide early warnings of customer, partner and service exposure, significant benefits to any organisations Revenue Assurance efforts.

The Integrated Customer Service Hub has evolved to allow customers, frequently the high value corporate organisations, on-line access firstly to Billing information then expanding to encompass other operational data such as new service orders and provisioning data, trouble tickets and service usage data. Increasingly customers are requiring being more in control of their services and so the hub has further evolved to allow customer self-servicing allowing them to place orders and receive information in the format that works for them not just their telecommunications service supplier. Read More »

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What Does It Take To Be A Leading Player In Payments Integration?

by Karen Hsu on May 11, 2011 – 7:39 am

Last Thursday, Aite Group, Capgemini and Informatica discussed why data integration was critical to the success of payment hubs. One of the questions from the audience was: who were the leading players? Capgemini responded that there are different segments of players– system integrators, payments application vendors, payments integration vendors. And each segment had a role in the success of a payments hub. But to say who is leading, you need to first look at what it takes to be a leader. Let’s look at what it takes for payments integration: Read More »

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What Are The Hot Trends In Financial Services?

by Karen Hsu on March 29, 2011 – 7:57 am

A Webinar Series with Aite Group and Informatica

Informatica, Aite Group, and Financial industry thought leaders just launched a series of webinars on hot trends in Insurance, Banking and Capital Markets. The issues by industry include:
In Insurance:

Master Data Management has become critical to customer retention and effective cross selling and upselling
ACORD based integration is critical to the success of Master Data Management because of the increased adoption of ACORD internally to integrate data from disparate systems into an MDM hub
In Wholesale Banking:
Payments infrastructure is getting increasingly complex due to mergers, increasing payment channels and types
Payments integration, as a result, is becoming increasingly important to integrate the new payments hubs with legacy systems that will continue to operate or exist from pre-merger days Read More »

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