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Lean Data Management is Finally Here!
Several Informatica bloggers have been writing about Lean Data Management for about a year including Agile Data Integration, Open Data, and Lean Data Warehouse to name a few. And now the book is finally available from book stores. OK, to be fair, the book is about the broader topic of Lean IT and I was one of eight authors that contributed to it; I wrote the chapter on Lean Data Management: The Invisible Dimension. Here is the introduction to the chapter: (more…)
Open Data to Maximize Your Return on Data … Create Your Own Goldmine
If data is an asset, why should you give it away? Open data is based on the notion that some data should be freely available to everyone to use, similar to other “Open” movements such as open source software. But open data doesn’t have to only be about exposing information publicly; the same concepts can be applied inside your firewall. Here are a few examples: (more…)
Top 5 Benefits For Making Big Data Small
Lean Data Management is a new approach to managing your data growth. It uses the “Lean” concept that originated with Toyota car manufacturing in the 1990’s. The “Lean” concept is based on maximizing efficiency, eliminating waste and providing more value to the customer. (See Informatica’s lean integration solutions as well as John Schmidt’s 10Weeks to Lean Integration blog series.)
As technology has evolved, industries consolidated, and corporations have grown, these organizations are faced with explosive data volumes called “Big Data”. Big Data is all the different types of data that are supported by IT organizations. Applying the “Lean” concept to managing application data will help you reduce the size of your Big Data by archiving live production databases, subsetting non-production databases and archiving/retiring legacy and redundant applications. Informatica’s Lean Data Management approach to reducing Big Data is an effective, comprehensive approach to addressing the challenges created by Big Data. It’s time to Make Big Data Small with Lean Data Management.
Here are the top 5 benefits for Making Big Data Small: (more…)