“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” said Juliet to Romeo in the epic tale of love between members of two warring families. The quote is the tragedy and the central struggle for both Shakespeare’s famous play and the more mundane but certainly as epic... more
Informatica has a number of notable higher education customers, and many of them are simultaneously moving their systems to the cloud while also focusing on improving student and alumni engagement. As I quickly approach my own undergraduate graduation in a few weeks, I find the University of Michigan Ross School of Business to be a... more
Harry Potter fans will remember the scene from “Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows” where upon entering the Lestrange vault, the treasures start multiplying repeatedly because of the Gemini curse (doubling charm). The objects in the vault proliferate rapidly, the duplicates multiplying themselves, and duplicates resulting from those duplications, ad infinitum, nearly crushing our heroes. If... more
No Enterprise is an Island, Entire to Itself To paraphrase John Donne, Every enterprise is a piece of the supply chain, a part of a community. It has been a well know convention, that companies with tighter supply chain collaboration perform better. In a 2017 study, McKinsey was able to quantify the impact of modernizing... more
The investment in analytics has accelerated. In fact, for most organizations the investment in analytics has outpaced the investment in data management. Organizations have been in an ‘arms race’ to fuel their digital transformation with Next Best Action, Next Best Experience, and Next Best Offer analytic engines. Most have received mixed results. Insights have been... more
I experience Deja-Vu every single time I visit a CIO, VP IT or Analytics at a manufacturing organization. Then again, it does not really matter what industry the client operates in. The Deja-Vu has to do with the appearance of one or two staffers, often organizationally situated in the Line-of-Business IT function of a core... more
It’s snowing everywhere! Even though it’s almost spring, big beautiful snowflakes are swirling about everywhere! Are you seeing flurries outside your window? If you’re like other customers, Snowflake may be at the center of your new cloud analytics initiatives. Customers select Snowflake for its modern, built-for-the-cloud SQL data warehouse, zero management and ‘pay only for what... more
In some parts of the world, like in California, it’s officially Spring time. And if you’re like me, you’re planning your trips out to the nearest national parks, where you’re likely to see snow melting into fresh streams of water. Ahh the sight, the sound, and the motion of streaming water – feeds your soul... more
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” goes the oft-repeated line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The same could be said about the challenge of finding relevant data in a sea of data as enterprises embark on digital transformation of their businesses. Digitization of business is leading... more
Great software and great sports teams share many things in common, chief among them: they both seek to build a roadmap for sustained success. But, a majority of technology products and sports teams tend to hover on the borderline of average to mediocre. If we think of sports teams, very few of them achieve sustained... more