With Dreamforce fast approaching, travel and hotel rooms are at the top of my mind. In my last blog post, I wrote about the delightful experience I receive from American Airlines customer service agents because they recognize my phone number when I call and can pull up my itineraries ready for our chat. I get... more
Government institutions have the same pressure as the private enterprise to deliver modern solutions with maximized performance, accessibility, reliability, security, etc. with lower costs of ownership and high SLAs…. but with one very notable addition — data sovereignty. No matter how secure cloud vendors make their platforms, governments worldwide do not want their data to commingle... more
It feels a bit obvious, at this point, to refer to data as a company’s most valuable asset. If there are two truths in today’s digital world, it’s that data determines success, and that there’s an awful lot of data to manage. And given the latter challenge, I propose a new axiom: Metadata is actually... more
I’ve been at Informatica for nearly four years. Even in that relatively short time, it amazes me how quickly data has become much more strategic to companies. The entire industry is much more sophisticated. And during my time here, I’ve picked up a lot about the “hows” of strategically managing data. In honor of my... more
Most organizations should leverage intelligent data security as a foundation for a systemic data privacy and protection program. Many market forces drive this need, including the chronic barrage of data losses, the enactment of powerful privacy regulations, consumers demanding the protection and control of their data, and the broad use of personal data to drive... more
Informatica and our customers share a common vision of an iPaaS (integration platform as a service) that can support any integration pattern, any user, and any type of data. For example, Grant Thornton, one of the leading organizations providing assurance, tax and advisory services, is building out an iPaaS that is flexible, scalable, and agile... more
Remember when the iPhone was introduced eleven years ago? It was nothing short of a miracle. A revolutionary device that shipped with an easy to use interface and comprised of carefully crafted apps that appeared as a grid of eye-candy icons. “An iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator” as Steve Jobs introduced it to... more
When I was at Informatica World 2018 in May, I had the chance to talk to a lot of our customers. Whether I was speaking with IT leaders, business leaders, or both, one of the most common challenges that came up was how to build a cloud-based data lake the right way. In short, the... more
Gartner recently published their third annual 2018 Metadata Management MQ and for the third year in a row Informatica was again named a Leader. Why should a business leader care about metadata management and what does it mean to be a leader? Metadata management sounds like something only IT should care about and an IT... more
If you have a Data-driven Strategy, or any kind of strategy, it doesn’t matter if you don’t have a way to put it into action! When I was working at Wells Fargo a few years ago in Enterprise Architecture, the CEO, John Stumpf, made the point in this quote “We always say we could leave... more