As pharmaceutical and clinical research organizations around the world race to discover and inoculate the global population with a vaccine for COVID-19, artificial intelligence (AI) will play a key role in ensuring that trustworthy, relevant, and timely drug-discovery data can be used to understand and eradicate this global threat. Drug discovery has traditionally been a... more
In the spirit of John Krasinski’s feel-good web series, SGN (Some Good News), we’re more excited than ever to celebrate our 2020 Informatica Innovation Award Winners and Honorees! While our celebration may have moved from an in-person reception to virtual, the mission remains the same: to recognize our customers’ successes as they leverage Informatica solutions... more
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it” More than ever, we are drowning in data. Zeta-bytes are piling up daily and it appears that nearly everything we do in modern life generates more of it. How is a business to keep up? Harnessing... more
Realize the Benefits of AI with the Right Framework In the current economic environment, organizations are focused on KPIs and metrics that matter today and in the near term. They are adopting analytics in the cloud, many by building cloud lakehouses, which blend the best of both worlds in cloud data warehouses and data lakes,... more
Succeeding in a New World of AI-Powered Intelligent Data Management I want to first acknowledge all the challenges and hardships that everyone is experiencing around the globe—both personally and professionally—with a special thank you to all the heroes out there on the front lines. From all of us at Informatica, we hope you, your family... more
In this post, guest blogger Blake Morgan, consumer futurist and author (“The Customer of the Future”), discusses the three key components of Informatica’s customer-centric approach. In recent years, brands in the B2C space have grown to see the value of customer experience. In fact, more than product or price, companies now compete on experience. But in... more
Co-authored with Rob Karel, VP, Strategic Marketing Initiatives. The concept of data interoperability is nothing new. For decades, organizations have been working toward improving interoperability. Firms of all shapes and sizes have focused internally on “integration,” ensuring their siloed internal systems, databases, applications, clouds, and mainframes could pass data back and forth by leveraging a... more
How to Find Quick Wins in a Cloud Data Warehouse or Data Lake In my previous post, I described the benefits of using an enterprise data catalog to better navigate to quicker value in your cloud journey. In this second post in the series, I’ll expand on the benefits of taking a high-value, iterative approach... more
Has data ever been more important than it is right now? As the world continues to grapple with the scale and impact of COVID-19, we look to data—and more importantly, the analysis of that data—to provide us with some level of understanding. There are data sources from independent labs, healthcare systems, different countries, and all... more
With the advent of high performing messaging systems like Apache Kafka, the adoption of enterprise messaging systems in enterprises is increasing exponentially. According to a recent survey,[1] more than 90% of organizations are planning to use Apache Kafka in mission-critical use cases. According to Gartner, “Based on conversations with Gartner clients, we estimate that roughly... more