Tag Archives: Real-Time Data Integration

Powering Financial Services Beyond ETL And Data Warehousing At Informatica World 2010

I just returned from Informatica World 2010 and wanted to share the numerous stories and experiences from some of our banking and capital markets customers using Informatica beyond Extract/Transform/Load (E.T.L) and beyond data warehousing. More importantly, how Informatica is helping these companies combat fraud, manage risk and compliance, accelerate M&A integrations, attract and retain customers, [...]

Revive Enterprise Architecture With Transformational SOA Data Integration

On November 10, Informatica made history with the launch of Informatica 9. In my mind, being a SOA enthusiast, another equally significant event transpired – the birth of SOA-based Data Services – transformational SOA data integration that can revive your enterprise architecture.   So, what exactly are SOA-based Data Services and why am I so excited?

How To Get Started with Data-Orientation – What Architects Told Me…

In my previous post To Successfully Service-Orient, Data-Orient First!, I shared the input I received from architects and IT managers, to serve as a handy check-list for ensuring a solid foundation for success in service-oriented infrastructures. The following are the data-orientation capabilities they recommended as a first step in successfully service-orienting an infrastructure: Easy access [...]

To Successfully Service-Orient, Data-Orient First!

I have firmly believed that a day would come when it would be you, my fellow integrators, telling me that one needs to data-orient first before benefiting from service-orientation. That day has indeed come! Just recently, I created a quick one question survey and sent it off to a number of application and enterprise architects [...]

Enough Already About “What Is SOA?” Let’s Discuss Some Real-World Myths About SOA…

I am back after a somewhat self-imposed hiatus during which I have been doing some soul-searching, or rather talking to a number of practitioners, experts, thought-leaders and analysts in the integration space. My singular quest was to uncover some real-world myths about SOA. I spoke to a variety of integration experts – enterprise and application [...]