September 23, 2011 – 12:21 am
Adopting Agile may require a cultural shift and in the beginning can be disruptive to an organization. However, as I mentioned in Part 1 of this blog series, Agile Data Integration holds the promise to increase chances of success, deliver projects faster, and reduce defects. Applying Lean principles within your organization can help ease the [...]
September 1, 2011 – 11:57 pm
Richard Cramer, Chief Healthcare Strategist for Informatica shares some views on Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption, including HITECH and Meaningful Use pressures. He also talks about the challenges that the future holds for EHRs. Visit Informatica’s Healthcare pages for more on EMRs.
I was happy to do an architect-to-architect Webinar with David Lyle, which was more of an interactive conversation than a Webinar. The focus was on the ability to provide integration using data virtualization, but the message was perhaps more profound than that. The core issues that many enterprises face are that information is largely an [...]
February 3, 2010 – 2:41 pm
Back in June 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) published Financial Accounting Statements No. 166, Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets, and No. 167, Amendments to FASB Interpretation No. 46(R), which changes the way entities account for securitizations and special-purpose entities. The new standards will impact financial institution balance sheets beginning in 2010 and [...]
By Peter Ku
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Posted in Data Integration, Data Quality, Financial Services, Governance, Risk and Compliance, Vertical
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Also tagged banking, Data Integration, Data Quality, FAS 166, FAS 167, Financial Services, regulations
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November 5, 2009 – 12:48 pm
According to a 2008 Forrester Research study, attracting and retaining top customers remains one of the highest priorities for CEOs today. Here’s why: The cost of losing one customer is four times higher than the cost of obtaining that same customer (Return on Behavior Magazine) Satisfying and retaining current customers is 3 to 10 times [...]
