Informatica Perspectives

According to J.J. Green, WFED's National Security Correspondent, the front line on fighting terrorism could be a simple matter of data integration that will allow agencies to better share information. He might be onto something:

“Intelligence sharing is not the problem for the US government when it comes to counter terrorism failures. A former Senior intelligence official said the problem is data integration.”

After looking at the facts of the case, I have to agree. Indeed, September 11^th and other attacks could be avoided if there was a common understanding of information between agencies. We seem to be missing patterns among the larger amounts of information collected, patterns not understood because we lack a well understood data sharing and data integration policy and practice between those who own the relevant data. [Read more]

Recently I was talking with some system integrators and customers regarding the rapid adoption of Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines and the range of new and promising uses to bring more agility and control to companies. We quickly agreed that without providing the CEP engine with individual events to feed it, the CEP engine would miss the basic substance to operate efficiently. What would a person be without nerve endings to communicate information to their brain? They would never be alerted to what was happening in the world around them. [Read more]

Today Informatica completed the acquisition of Agent Logic.

Whenever a company acquires another, the first question is why. I wanted to give my personal perspective on why this deal is a good one for the industry and our customers.  In addition to my comments below, you can read the press release: Informatica Acquires Agent Logic for more information. [Read more]