Tag Archives: Data Synchronization

What is Change Data Capture? Something Business and IT Both Agree on for Mainframe Data Integration

A few days ago, I got a text message from a friend telling me that my favorite company’s stock price was suddenly tanking and that I should dump my holding.  So I went to the news portal to get a stock quote and see where the stock price happens to be. I found that the [...]

Cloud Integration Drives CRM And Sales Success

Today Informatica announced that Bay & Bay Transportation has used Informatica Cloud Services to achieve a six month project payback on their total Salesforce.com investment and a 900 percent return on their critical data integration project. Bay & Bay is using the turnkey, on-demand Informatica Cloud Services to provide robust, bi-directional synchronization between its logistics [...]

HealthDetail Turns To The Cloud For Sales Growth

The only way for HealthDetail to hold or increase margins was to think differently. The company’s provider directory business supplies accurate and compliant healthcare directories for Medicaid and other health insurers. The problem was that the volume of data coming in and the breadth of different sources it was derived from threatened to overwhelm the [...]

What Are Your Cloud Integration Use Cases?

The rapid adoption of cloud-based applications, platforms, and infrastructure has resulted in more fragmented data and an increased need to integrate data “in the cloud” with data in on-premise applications and databases. Line of business managers and software as a service (SaaS) administrators need rapid time to value and self service. Meanwhile, the IT organization [...]

Data Integration “Platform”—Grand Unification Theory Or Reality?

Technology vendors like to talk about platforms, because platforms imply a broader footprint both in terms of functional capabilities and in terms of implementation usage.  Platforms also sound more “strategic,” even if the practical implications are vague.  But the term “platform” can also be simple marketing hype.  How do you know when a software “platform” [...]