February 2, 2012 – 5:58 am
Lean management practices have been applied in recent years to virtually all business functions and processes, including of course Lean Integration. IT architecture is no exception. But what exactly does a Lean Architecture look like and how could you measure its “leanness”? Since there is no generally accepted definition lean architecture, and since I won’t [...]
January 26, 2012 – 8:25 am
Many years ago (over 30 to be precise) I can recall walking the halls of more than one fortune 500 company and seeing four-foot high stacks of boxes with computer printouts in the hallway outside of managers’ offices. In fact it was not uncommon to see pallet-loads of computer printouts in some companies. When I [...]
January 5, 2012 – 7:45 am
The cost for 1GB of magnetic disk storage 20 years ago was $1,000 – now it’s eight cents. 1GB is enough to store about 20 thousand letter-size scanned documents. To store the same number of paper documents would require two four-drawer filing cabinets which would cost about $400. The cost of electronic data storage is [...]
By John Schmidt
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Posted in CIO, Data Integration, Integration Competency Centers, Master Data Management, Operational Efficiency
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Also tagged application retirement, Big Data, Compliance, Data Governance, Data Quality, Governance, Integration, Lean, Master Data Management
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November 8, 2011 – 10:42 pm
Velocity, Informatica’s methodology for implementing world class data integration and data management solutions, has just rolled out a new website. This is a key step for the Next Generation Velocity since the site is based on a flexible content management system that enables rapid publication of best practice content.
November 1, 2011 – 5:44 am
Data center consolidation is much more than physical movement of servers and infrastructure. In fact, the facility costs and power savings are just the tip of the opportunity. The biggest benefits come from using the consolidation initiative as a catalyst to rationalize the application portfolio, archive inactive data and establish one version of the truth [...]
By John Schmidt
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Posted in Application ILM, Application Retirement, Cloud Computing, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Services, Data Warehousing, Enterprise Data Management, Integration Competency Centers
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Also tagged application archiving, application retirement, Best Practices, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Data Services, Database Archiving, Informatica Cloud, Lean, Lean Integration
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