Tag Archives: business and IT collaboration

Informatica 9.1 Supports Best Practices For Agile Data Integration

Informatica supports Agile Data Integration for Agile BI with best practices that encourage good data governance, facilitate business-IT collaboration, promote reuse & flexibility through data virtualization, and enable rapid prototyping and test-driven development.  Organizations that want to successfully adopt Agile Data Integration should standardize on the following best practices and leverage Informatica 9.1 to streamline [...]

Navigating The Maze: Tips For Enabling Successful Data Governance

I have been talking with a lot of customers lately on the topic of data governance.  Over and above the obvious question of “what is data governance”, two other common questions seem to come up, both related to helping make it a reality.  Time and time again, I get questions regarding what the right approach [...]

Introduction: Building A Business Case For Data Quality

Building a business case for data quality is a waste of time. Nobody really cares. Improving data quality for quality’s sake is a waste of money. Sounds funny coming from a data quality specialist, someone who has spent the last decade preaching data profiling and data quality. But the fact is people from the business [...]

“Imagine” Business Empowerment

“Imagine a world in which the business and IT are collaborating together.” This line comes from Chris Boorman’s overview of “the biggest and most significant release in the history of Informatica “ – Informatica 9. As I read his post I found myself humming the song, “Imagine” and thinking about the potential implications for data [...]