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Data Integration Goes Mobile And Gets Cloudy At Dreamforce 2011
It was quite a week. According to the Tweets from @benioff, “over 45,000 people gave us a week of their summer to attend Dreamforce 2011” – a truly amazing number and a truly amazing conference. Informatica customers and partners were also out in full force as the topic of data integration was front and center in most of the keynotes and breakout sessions. Informatica announced that it’s now running over 20 billion transactions per month via its multitenant cloud integration service and also introduced a mobile administration and monitoring application that is now available on the Apple App Store.
Our session on Hybrid IT – The Importance of Integration to Salesforce Success was run twice due to popular demand and it was a packed house each time. Special thanks to our great customer speakers from PSA Insurance and Financial Services, Topcon Positioning Systems and Qualcomm. You can check out the slides here and the video on Salesforce YouTube Channel soon. (more…)
Informatica Announces Big Data Cloud Integration
This week a milestone was announced for Informatica Cloud – the multi-tenant data integration service now surpasses 20 billion cloud data transactions and three million cloud data integration jobs per month. What does this mean, you ask? Simply visit Trust.InformaticaCloud.com/status and take a look for yourself. You’ll not only see real-time status of the on-demand service, you’ll see how many integration jobs and and transactions are being processed every day. (more…)
Cloud Integration For The Insurance Industry
Today Informatica announced that, “an increasing number of insurance companies rely on Informatica to address their unique challenges of integrating disparate data from a multitude of channels including adjusters, brokers, service providers, underwriters and other related parties.” I thought that two points were worth highlighting here:
- The wide adoption of cloud-based CRM in the insurance industry. Just look at some of the customers highlighted by salesforce.com on their website.
- The wide adoption of cloud-based data integration in this industry. (more…)
Video: A Commissioner’s Perspective on CLOUD2
Juan Carlos Soto, SVP and GM, B2B Data Exchange and Cloud Data Integration, Informatica, serves as a commissioner for the Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2), a group that was organized to provide the Obama Administration with recommendations for how government should deploy cloud technologies and for public policies that will help drive U.S. innovation in the cloud. Here, Juan Carlos shares his thoughts on the commission, addressing the following questions:
- As a commissioner on CLOUD2, can you tell us about your mission?
- Why was CLOUD2 founded, who was part of the commission and what were the goals?
- What were the results of CLOUD2 and the findings that were provided to the Obama Administration?
- What was Informatica’s role in the commission and why is data integration important for cloud computing?
- CLOUD2 was focused on recommendations for the U.S. government. How is the work from CLOUD2 applicable to other industries?
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Getting Ready For Dreamforce 2011
While most people are busy planning vacation time in August, salesforce.com customers and partners, as well as general cloud computing enthusiasts, are gearing up for Dreamforce 2011 in San Francisco later this month. According to the website, “There’s a post- PC revolution underway, and your customers have moved to a world that’s entirely social, mobile and open. Has your company?” (more…)
What Will the Software Industry Look Like in 3, 5, Even 10 Years From Now?
Recently Informatica’s Chairman and CEO Sohaib Abbasi was asked to provide commentary on the future of the software industry for SIIA’s annual Vision from the Top. The paper includes input from industry leaders from SIIA members such as Eloqua, GoodData, InsideView, Intuit, Marketo, Opsource, QlikView, Symantec and Xactly. In the the paper, he outlines how “the computer industry will be shaped by the current nexus of megatrends: Cloud Computing, Social Computing and Mobile Computing.”
Here is Sohaib Abbasi’s answer to the question: “What will the software industry look like in 3, 5, even 10 years from now?” (more…)
Webinar: Best Practices for Deploying Cloud ERP within Large Enterprises
Earlier this year Informatica and Netsuite announced a partnership focused on delivering “Two Tier ERP” solutions to large enterprises. According to the press release:
“With a two-tier ERP infrastructure, the existing SAP or Oracle system serves as the hub at the enterprise level and is augmented with more flexible and cost effective cloud ERP solutions, such as NetSuite OneWorld, at the subsidiary or divisional level. Informatica’s cloud data integration solution enables integration between the on-premise enterprise system and cloud divisional systems.”
This deployment model leverages a robust cloud integration strategy to deliver the flexibility and agility of a SaaS ERP solution to divisions and subsidiaries, allowing them to benefit from accelerated consolidation, real-time visibility into performance, local flexibility and control. (more…)
What Is The Cloud Really?
At a recent CIO Magazine executive dinner on Cloud and Innovation, the discussion topic for the evening centered on How IT Is Driving Business Innovation with Private Clouds. The discussion started (as they often do) with a round-table poll of everyone’s definition of “the cloud”. The responses from attendees included everything from the cloud business model (pay as you go), to who does it (outsource vs. insource), to service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), to ubiquitous and device-independent global access and finally to resource pooling and multi-tenancy environments. IMHO, none of these are the real defining characteristic of the cloud. (more…)
Why Is Integration A Good Place To Begin Your IT Self Service Journey?
There is no question that self-service information technology is a growing trend. John Haddad made a compelling case for the inescapable trend in his article No More Waiting Thanks To Self Service Data Integration. So if IT self-service is a fait-accompli, what can you do to get started? I suggest that integration capabilities are the best place to start for three reasons. I’ll save the most compelling reason to the end. (more…)
Informatica Cloud Wins Best Cloud Management CODiE Award
I spent last week at the annual SIIA All About the Cloud Conference in San Francisco. The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) “is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries.” They are also the organization that gives out the annual CODiE Awards, “the industry’s only peer‐review awards program, acknowledge innovation and excellence for products and services in the business software, digital content and education technology industries.”
I’m pleased to be able to say that Informatica Cloud has been recognized this year as the “Best Cloud Management Solution.”