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 [...]
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, ICC, Informatica Cloud, Lean
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October 25, 2011 – 1:03 am
The integration hairball is a pattern that is repeated over and over again in virtually every organization. The hairball is characterized by an overly complex collection of dependencies between application components that is hard to change, expensive to maintain, and unpredictable in operation. I have used the graphic below since 2001 to present a visual [...]
