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Welcome to the blog archive. Here you can find quick access to posts from any month over the last few years.
2006
- Business-Focused Data Quality
- Data Quality and Data Integration; Bread and Butter or Chalk and Cheese?
- The Gift of High Quality Information
- Information Quality and Accountability
- Data Quality Dashboard - Capture Your Audience's Attention
2007
- IQ Lessons Learned: Consumer Reports Recalls Faulty Car Seat Study
- Valuing Data Quality
- If all master data was like customer data . . .
- Achieving Information Nirvana
- The CFO's ultimate challenge
- Fit For Purpose Data
- The Enterprise Approach to Data – Better than a Sleeping Pill
- What Can Enterprises Learn from Computer Science?
- Enterprise Data Management - It's not just for finance any more
- The "Force-Field" of Data Governance
- Podcast: Business Data Quality Point of View - From The CFO
- Podcast: Business Data Quality Point of View - From The CMO
- The ROI of Enterprise Data Management
- Integration Everywhere? After 10 years…
- EDM Fitness – Look Before You Leap
- Data quality – More than a minor annoyance
- Seeing is Believing: Thoughts on Informatica World 2007
- Automating Data Remediation is the ONLY Way to Go
- Data lineage - where did that data come from?
- IQ in Internet and e-Business Information
- Customer Data Integration (CDI) – for a single view of your customer
- Customer Data Integration (CDI) - Separating the Hype from the Reality
- Mobilizing the Data Quality Army
- Integration Competency Center (ICC)'s - Where to get started…
- Master Data Management (MDM) – Going Where the EDW has Gone Before
- Why Enterprise Data Warehouses Have not Been Master Data Management Solutions
- Alice in "Qualityland"
- The Measured Value of "Re-Use"
- Getting Down To Business with People and Policies
- Information Quality & Management Transformation
- The Two Titanic Data Governance Mistakes
- What is ELT?
- Getting Started with an Integration Competency Center (ICC)
- ICC Sponsorship, Investments and Organizations
- ICC Organizational Models
- ICCs: What Options are Available
- Pros & Cons of ICC Organizational Model
- When is ELT the Right Choice?
- Real World Experiences with ELT or "Pushdown Optimization"
- ICC enabling solution architectures
- Hospital Billing Errors 'Kill' Patients
- Business or Technology: Who's the Boss
- Are You Prepared for the Q4 Push?
- ICC's Driving New Data Integration Technology Requirements
- Are You Ready for Enterprise Data Warehousing?
- An Honest View of Your EDW Assessment
- M&A and Divestitures Need Effective Data Integratio
- You Don't Need M&A to Justify Data Integration
- Real-time Data - A Data Integration Challenge
- ETL is not pervasive yet
- Have an Open Mind While Planning for 2008 (Think Beyond ETL)
- Real-time Integration Competency Centers - What are they?
- Your 2008 Data Integration Plans, Part 1
- Building the Business Case for Data Quality
- Your 2008 Data Integration Plans, Part 2:Replacing your data shadow systems or spreadmart
- Your 2008 Data Integration Plans, Part 3:Getting your reference data in order
- Business and IT Collaboration is Essential for Data Quality
- Start small with monitoring, but always think big to achieve data quality goals
- Your 2008 Data Integration Plans, Part 4:Getting your Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in Order
- Is there life on Mars?
- The self-service data quality minefield
- Better management through measuring data quality
- Cautious Tech Spending for 2008?
2008
- MDM is not a product
- Happy New Year! And the Business Value of Data Lineage
- The Disconnect with Data Integration and SOA
- IQ and Information Product Specifications Quality
- Why the "E" in EDW (Enterprise Data Warehousing)?
- It's the data (integration) that enables BI
- Your 2008 Data Integration Plans, Part 5:Adding Real-Time Business Intelligence to your Information Portfolio
- It's about time for Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW)
- Rome Wasn't Built in a Day and Neither is a Data Governance Initiative
- "IT's Wonderful Life" – Yes, IT is
- MDM: It's Not About the Product - Part 2
- Get Ready for Informatica World 2008 - Las Vegas
- Data Access - A Cultural or Technical Challenge?
- Data Migration and Consolidation; Tough Data Challenges
- Seeing is Believing
- IT Doesn't Matter – Integration Does
- New Competitive Weapon: Pervasive BI and the Culture of 'Now'
- Spending money on middleware during a weak economy
- Profile Early, Profile Often
- The "Force-Field" of Data Governance
- The Real Silver Bullet
- Even in Tough Times, Integration Still Endures
- Gaining Buy-in to Master Data Management, One Step at a Time
- Data Quality Maturity Model - How Does Your Organization Rate?
- Is IT Wagging the Organization?
- Identity Systems Acquisition - the Next Evolution of Data Quality
- Getting EIM Right Part I: Why is Business Critical Information Such a Strategic Enterprise Asset?
- SOA's Last Mile, Part I: Data is a Common Theme in SOA
- Getting EIM Right Part II: Where Technologies Such as EAI and EII Have Failed
- SOA's Last Mile Part II: SOA's Hidden Data-Centric Pitfalls
- IT Does Matter
- SaaS, On-Demand and Now Cloud Computing
- The New Informatica.com and You
- 2008 Informatica Innovation Awards Recipients Announced
- A Deeper Dive into Informatica 8.6
- Opening keynote from Informatica World
- Customers and partners are talking about Informatica 8.6
- Look out for that train!
- Right-Time Data Integration - Customers Differ on the "What" but Agree on the "How"
- Practical Data Services
- Data Quality - Ensuring Trust in Your Data
- What the press is saying about Informatica
- Orchestrating Beautiful Melodies with Data
- Maximize Operational Uptime
- Salesforce.com is talking about how integration enables cloud computing, too…
- Mark Smith at Ventana says we're betting big on the Information Economy
- Tony Baer of OnStrategies: Informatica Wades into the Stream
- 2008 Gartner Data Quality Magic Quadrant
- Slowing Down, and Other Counter-Intuitive Steps to Agile BI
- 2008 Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools and Informatica World Thoughts
- A DMReview Magazine Article of Note on Maximizing Business Value
- Welcome to the Informatica Perspectives Blog
- Real-time, Right-time, On-time
- Integration as Strategy
- Information Content Quality
- Informatica Webinar: Data Services - Maximizing Business Value through Right-Time Information
- Reaching for the clouds - with feet firmly on terra-firma
- Information Presentation Quality
- What, Exactly, is 'Data Warehouse 2.0'? Opinions Vary
- Can Data Quality Solve World Hunger?
- The Emergence of Macro-Integration
- The Role of Data for Governance, Risk and Compliance - Strategic or Tactical?
- Informatica World Presentations and Breakouts Now Available
- TDWI Panel discusses MDM
- Is Informatica Getting Into the Master Data Management Business?
- Escaping the SOA Trough of Disillusionment
- Microsoft Buys Zoomix
- Data Governance at MIT
- Master Data Management - Leverage and Value
- National Security vs. Privacy Rights - the Role for Technology
- Growing in a Tough Economy
- Getting EIM Right Part III: What is "Right-Time" Information?
- Is industry consolidation putting you in data jail?
- HealthCare Improvements Through Master Data Management
- 'Service Orient' Your Enterprise Data Management with Data Services
- SOA and BPM Tend to Overlook the Complexity of Integrating Fragmented Enterprise Data
- What is 'GRC,' and How Can It Bring the Enterprise Together?
- Cloud Computing for Dummies - Is Your Data Living a Double Life?
- Master Data Management: Engineering or Product Design Firms
- Communicating the Value of Data Quality
- Self Funded ICC's
- Why is ETL a four-letter word?
- Olympic Competition and the Global Economy
- What Does BPM Want? Or, what Does it Really Need?
- 'Cloud Computing' is Ready for Enterprise Prime Time, But…
- Informatica: Data Integration Olympics, and being followed …
- Podcast on Right-Time Data Integration from TDWI
- Viva la Data Warehouse
- 'Cloud Computing' is Ready for Enterprise Prime Time, But… (Part 2)
- Pervasive Business Intelligence Means 'BI for the Masses
- Silos are bad. Silos still proliferate. Don't we ever learn?
- Top-down SOA Governance
- Upgrading your data integration efforts to enable Business Intelligence (BI) 2.0
- Data - SOA's Last Mile
- "Something is Finally Shaking Loose in the Ongoing Challenge of Data Services and SOA"
- Mergers and Acquisitons - why the high failure rate?
- It is "All About the Data!"
- What IS integration?
- New Customer? It Shouldn't Require a Whole New Integration Project
- Partnering - Our Market Advantage
- Rationalizing Silos: Architecture or Politics?
- Data is the Problem, not Excel
- Master Data Management Paves the Way for SOA
- Cloud Computing - integration is key
- Business Intelligence Strategies in a Down Economy
- IT Budgets, Clouds and Virtualisation
- Moore's Law for Organizations
- IT-Business Collaboration: Is It Always "Lost in Translation"?
- Data Governance and SOA Governance are Interlinked
- Setting up ICC across BI and EAI practice- Round 1 Breaking the Silos
- Data and Processes are Intertwined!
- How SOA Enhances Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
- Keep your feet on the ground and your head in the clouds
- Make the most of your BI/DI investment
- Administrators are from Mars; Analysts are from Venus
- Informatica World 2009 - register now!
- Congratulations - Informatica customers RBS and KPN win awards
- Where predictive analytics and decision support meet — operational DI for all types of BI needs
- Informatica and Data Synapse - scaling and sharing PowerCenter in the broader IT ecosystem
- Datawarehouse Databases, Appliances, a plethora of options…..
- Where's the Beef? Why SOA Needs MDM
- Integration Opportunity Calculator
- Do you trust your data?
- Could Better Business Intelligence Have Averted the Credit Crisis?
- SOA's Last Mile Part III: How to Address SOA's Data-Centric Pitfalls Effectively
- Bad Data Impacting the Economy
- Informatica, Salesforce.com and Amazon debate cloud integration
- An afternoon at the Oscars or a Florida user's group
- Business Intelligence, Light and Fast (Part 1)
- Informatica launches industry's first on-demand data synchronization service for Cloud Computing
- Customer Centricity Strategies
- The Yin and Yang of Data Governance and MDM
- Data Services – The Silver Bullet for SOA's Data Integration Pitfalls
- Data Quality - Does Anyone Care?
- Business Intelligence, Light and Fast (Part 2)
- Informatica Inside - Continued Momentum with OEM partners
- Data Quality in Voter Rolls: A Big Problem with a Familiar Ring
- Turbocharging Data Warehousing Performance with ELT
- Can Data Governance Help Wall Street Firms Survive?
- Can You Trust Your Metadata If You Have Poor Quality Data?
- Cloud Presentation Stuns Conference
- Five Things to Look For When Hiring an Enterprise Architect (Part 1)
- Five Things to Look for When Hiring an Enterprise Architect (Part 2)
- "Accelerate" and See the Light Sooner
- Fast Good and Cheap
- Unveiling the 'Secret Sauce' of Systems Integrators
- SOAWorld Conference & Expo – "Data is FOUNDATIONAL to SOA!"
- After 2009, Enterprise Data Warehousing Will Never be the Same
- ELT - More than just performance enhancement - think metadata
- Predictions for 2009: Data takes central stage
- Integration letter to Santa
- A Year To Remember
2009
- Support for ICC's is Growing
- Integration Predictions for 2010
- Time to Take Data Integration off the Backburner
- Service-Orientation is the New Mantra!
- M&A - An Integration Challenge?
- 10 Weeks to Lean Integration
- Demonstrating the Power of a Data Integration Platform
- Lean Integration Part 2: Eliminate Waste
- Is Having One Enterprise Business Glossary Practical In Real World Data Governance Practices?
- Driving Data Integration through the Social Network
- Data Management Emerges as a "Power Center"
- Lean Integration Part 3: Sustaining Knowledge
- Salesforce.com Customers Vote Informatica On Demand Data Loader Number One!
- Aspiring to Operational Excellence in Telecommunications
- How About a 'Service Oriented Architecture' for Data?
- Lean Integration Part 4: Planning for Change
- A Culture of Data Quality
- Automated Decision-Making Mitigates Massive Data Surge
- Lean Integration Part 5: Deliver Fast
- Informatica Partners Win 2008 Alliances Awards
- Data Integration "Platform"—Grand Unification Theory Or Reality?
- We Won a Stevie - The "Oscars" of the Business World
- Lean Integration Part 6: Empower The Team
- Social Networking Communities and the Rise of 'Personal Outsourcing'
- The Four Realms Of Data Integration
- New 2009 Partner Directory – Get Your Updates In!
- What is Service-Oriented Architecture or What is SOA? Real-World Observations!
- Web 2.0 Changes Enterprises' Architectural Tastes
- Checklist For Data Integration Platform Capabilities
- Salesforce.com Integration - Inside Out or Outside In?
- Parlez vous Francais?
- Lean Integration Part 7: Build Quality In
- State Of The Data Warehouse
- Data Integration Platforms: Not Just "What", but "How" - Part 1
- The Importance Of Data Integration And Data Quality In Master Data Management Initiatives
- Importance Of Data Quality In A Down Economy
- Goldmines in Social Media: Capturing 'Crowdsourcing' Knowledge
- Lean Integration Part 8: Optimize The Whole
- Event Driven Decision Support
- Data Integration Platforms: Not Just "What", but "How" - Part 2
- Nominations Will Shortly Close For The 2009 Informatica Innovation Awards
- Data Migration Is Not About Moving Data
- Change Management - Chaos vs. Stagnation
- Advancing SOA and MDM — in Tandem
- 20 Years Old: The Web, Social Media And Our Reliance On "Data"
- Data Quality Assessment Partner Program 12 Month Check-in
- Why the Downturn is Good for SOA, Information-as-a-Service or Data Services!
- Data Integration Platform TCO: It’s Not Just About The Technology
- Lean Integration Part 9: Deming’s 14 Points
- Exploring What it Means to 'Make Better Decisions'
- Data Quality For The First US CIO
