Switching to the carpool lane can be intimidating especially when you don’t have all the information available to you to safely make the lane change. For example, is the carpool lane open, is my blindspot clear to make the lane change? How do you efficiently collect bits and pieces of data at the right time... more
At Informatica, the Enterprise Cloud Data Management leaderwe listen to our customers’ goals and then guide them towards solutions that help accelerate their data-driven digital transformation journey whilst delivering value to their business. We pride ourselves on helping customers out-anything, out-innovate, out-maneuver, and out-perform. We want the same for our partners – we want you... more
This year’s Informatica World was truly eye opening. Thanks to the amazing participation and feedback from our partners, our teams walked away with incredible learnings about their growing successes and opportunities. And as underscored by Rodney Foreman in a recent blog post, Data Security stood out as one of the hottest topics. Having received many... more
Whenever I spend time with other CIOs, the subject almost invariably turns to a book one of us has read. And I’m gratified that the types of books that come up in these conversations are rarely what you’d call ‘IT books’ or ‘management books’. The CIOs I meet are well-rounded and well-read Renaissance people. They’re... more
My last post took a closer look at the IT roadmap. For a cloud migration, a transformation around data analytics, or any long-term IT revolution, you create a roadmap to guide you from your present state to the desired future vision. But that begs a question: How do you know what that future vision should... more
Getting data-driven digital transformation projects into production quickly requires a modern approach to data integration. Data is increasingly spread across a proliferating number of systems including multiple clouds and big data as well as existing applications and databases. Many companies struggle with digital transformation since they don’t have an organized and agile data backbone to... more
It’s a sunny afternoon, you’re on the highway with the top down and stuck in traffic. You fumble through your navigation trying to figure out which is the best and fastest route to your destination. You can take the side streets, where you will encounter traffic lights and eventually get to your destination. Alternatively, you... more
Digital transformation is what everybody wants, but there are many views on what constitutes a “digital transformation.” Is it online services? Is it a social enterprise? Is it legacy transformation? Is it an analytics-driven enterprise? The definition of digital enterprise may be all of the above, or maybe one of the above. What really matters... more
–By Anish Jariwala and Laura Wang This is kind of big news for us, marketing operations and marketing technology types (and Laura happens to be both) Informatica has won one of this year’s Stackie Awards presented by Scott Brinker at the MarTech San Francisco 2017 Conference. We love the Stackies. They’re the only award to recognize... more
In recent posts, I’ve discussed the process of establishing an organizational vision and strategy for cloud technology. Once you’ve established a solid, supported, long-term strategy it’s time to get tactical and the bridge between strategy and tactical implementation is your roadmap. Everyone gets roadmaps as a metaphor and that a roadmap is a detailed guide... more