Category Archives: SaaS

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

by Darren Cunningham on December 13, 2011 – 9:54 am
Darren Cunningham

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 comprehensive cloud data management strategy has surfaced as a top IT imperative heading into the New Year – How and when do you plan to move data to the cloud? How will you prevent SaaS silos? How will you ensure your cloud data is trustworthy, relevant and complete? What is your plan for longer-term cloud governance and control?

These are just a few of the questions you need to think through as you develop your short, medium and long-term cloud strategy. Here are my predictions for what else should be on your 2012 cloud integration radar.  Read More »

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2011 #Cloud Integration Predictions in Review

by Darren Cunningham on November 22, 2011 – 7:12 am
Darren Cunningham

‘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:

  1. Cloud adoption will drive two-tier cloud integration strategies
  2. LOB-driven cloud integration projects will lead to strategic MDM initiatives
  3. Cloud integration platforms will emerge
  4. Database.com will gain enterprise adoption
  5. Private Cloud confusion will continue

Here’s my assessment: Read More »

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Informatica Cloud Winter 2012 Announced

by Darren Cunningham on November 16, 2011 – 5:39 pm
Darren Cunningham

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 hardware appliance.”

This is an important release for 4 reasons:

  1. Informatica has expanded our cloud integration service to data quality
  2. We have greatly expanded our cloud connectivity
  3. We continue to deliver enterprise-class functionality via the cloud
  4. We are broadening the capabilities of Informatica Cloud Express, our pay-as-you-go cloud service. Read More »
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Video: Informatica Cloud @ Dreamforce 2011 #df11

by Darren Cunningham on September 29, 2011 – 7:34 am
Darren Cunningham

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 you getting different questions from customers now with all of the industry changes?
  • Is the social revolution the focus of next year or is it more than that?
  • How do you monitor customer interactions and measure the ROI?

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Data Integration Goes Mobile And Gets Cloudy At Dreamforce 2011

by Darren Cunningham on September 7, 2011 – 12:09 pm
Darren Cunningham

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 in most of the keynotes and breakout sessions. Informatica announced that it’s now running over 20 billion transactions per month via its multitenant cloud integration service and also introduced a mobile administration and monitoring application that is now available on the Apple App Store.

Our session on Hybrid IT – The Importance of Integration to Salesforce Success was run twice due to popular demand and it was a packed house each time. Special thanks to our great customer speakers from PSA Insurance and Financial Services, Topcon Positioning Systems and Qualcomm. You can check out the slides here and the video on Salesforce YouTube Channel soon. Read More »

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