Earthrise, the dazzling Blue Marble photograph of Earth, has been a great inspiration for me. Apollo 8 astronauts on the first human-crewed mission to the moon took this awe-inspiring photograph. It is a powerful image representing the progress in travel exploration made possible through barrier-breaking inventions of the wheel to go farther on land, ships... more
Metadata connectivity is a critical component of data cataloging. It helps establish the unified metadata foundation required to drive successful data-driven digital transformation initiatives with intelligence and automation. At Informatica, we have been working with many of the leading Global 2000 and Fortune 500 enterprises across industries and geographies to help them intelligently catalog and... more
Data preparation is what every AI and machine learning project needs right now. Roughly speaking, data preparation involves cleansing and transforming data before it’s used in analytics. To explain why it’s so important, let’s take a step back to an ancient board game. Go is a popular board game with origins in Asia. The aim... more
Healthcare has long been a top priority for citizens and governments alike, and for all the right reasons – from curtailing the cost of healthcare, delivering optimal patient care, protecting patient data, to IT modernization and digital transformation of our healthcare system. After all, nothing is more important than our health. And this realization often... more
SAP systems have long been considered the “backbone” that supports business operations for enterprises of all types and sizes. Businesses rely on SAP end-to-end business solutions, in-memory databases, and data warehouses among other SAP technologies to enable a plethora of business functions. According to SAP, 77% of the world’s transaction revenue touches an SAP system.[1] ... more
In this data-first world, a company’s success depends on every team member using data to accelerate business decisions. Every enterprise has data, but their DataOps team needs to be empowered to collaborate to find actionable insights and solutions. Industry research suggests most data engineers spend 80% of their time cleansing, curating, and preparing their data... more
In December 2017, data catalogs officially became cool when Gartner published its report “Data Catalogs Are the New Black in Data Management and Analytics.”[1] Demand for data catalogs has been strong and lived up to the hype over the last couple of years. And over the last year, this demand has translated into an increasing... more
Enterprise data preparation is a team sport. Right? Any DataOps team – including data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts – will want to quickly discover, validate, share and collaborate on data including creating fully cleansed, transformed and governed data pipelines at scale. However, that is not the reality that most DataOps teams get to... more
This is a blog about data. But I am going to start by talking about food. We are what we eat—or at least that’s what the purveyors of fine foods would have us believe. As consumers, how do we decide what’s good for us to eat? First, we scan the label to understand some key... more