Tag Archives: Healthcare

The Future of Applications (4): Transforming to a Data-Centric Enterprise

This is my fourth blog in a series on the subject of “Informatica & Applications”.  You can read my previous blogs here: The Future of Applications (1): From Sustaining to Enhancing to Transforming The Future of Applications (2): Lowering Costs & Complexity The Future of Applications (3): Enhancing Apps to Modernize Business Processes In the era [...]

Informatica Acquires Siperian: One Year Later

It was about one year ago on January 28, 2010, that Informatica announced its acquisition of Siperian, a pure-play multidomain MDM vendor. What a year it’s been. As a five-year veteran of Siperian/Informatica, it’s been thrilling and gratifying to be a part of the enterprise technology landscape that MDM has become. Part of the reason [...]

Executives Share Powerful MDM Customer Success Stories @ Informatica World

Our customer executives delivered some inspiring presentations at our recent Informatica World conference on how master data management (MDM) is enabling strategic business imperatives such as increasing revenue by making more relevant cross-sell offers, improving regulatory compliance with more effective reporting, and streamlining key business processes such as order-to-cash to improve the customer experience. A [...]

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 [...]

Improving Healthcare Across The World With Data Integration

I was chatting with some colleagues in the healthcare industry last week.  We were discussing the latest healthcare reforms in the USA and the role that technology plays.  Indeed the recent announcement by the World Health Organization that the Swine Flu epidemic has been raised to “pandemic” status is a clear indicator of the need [...]