I joined Informatica just a few weeks ago to lead marketing for our big data management portfolio. And there is no better way to dive into the Informatica community than to start blogging. So that’s what I’m going to do! I hope you’ll join me for the ride as we discuss the future of big... more
I’m excited to share that Informatica was recently recognized as the Best Solution to ‘Drive Customer Insights’ at Cloudera’s 6th annual Partner Summit, held on September 10, 2018 in New York City! The Award The partner award recognizes the strong collaboration and unified focus between Informatica and Cloudera to help drive greater customer value and... more
I was talking with a colleague recently about our kids and we were sharing stories about the challenges of raising them. While Jim is starting out on the journey (his kids are 1 and 3), I am nearing the end of the journey (I hope), with two young adults – 18 and 21. During our... more
Informatica is happy to announce the next generation of operational monitoring and analytics for Big Data Management (BDM) on Operational Insights. Operational Insights is a hybrid cloud service to help efficiently operationalize Informatica BDM and/or PowerCenter environments. Operational Insights helps successful implementation of BDM by providing An integrated dashboard to view the health of all... more
When medieval Europe moved towards a monetary economy it became necessary for merchants to account for multiple transactions financed by bank loans. In 1494 Luca Pacioli a Franciscan monk conveniently published the first known work on double entry bookkeeping. This simple concept of debits and credits has been the mechanism behind the financial systems that... more
It’s 4.50pm and it’s time to call it a day. Sarah planned this day carefully, so she can drop off her son to soccer practice and daughter to gymnastics. And she can visit the new gelato place all by herself. She has been waiting for this day to have a cone lined with Nutella, a... more
Ability to accurately label columns, attributes and fields is a critical requirement for both data discovery and data governance. However, organizations can have millions of datasets and hundreds of millions of columns/fields in various structured and semi-structured data sources, making it impossible to manually curate them one by one. Also, not all columns represent unique... more
There hasn’t been a more exciting time for metadata, at least not since President Obama referred to metadata in the context of phone calls – and bestowed it with a whiff of notoriety. Now metadata, best exemplified by the data catalog, is getting a red-carpet treatment (swathed in black of course – see Gartner’s Data... more
Big data is the underpinning of how companies are revolutionizing customer engagement, driving productivity and fueling innovation. It has emerged as a megatrend that is continuing to gain attention. Big data started with Hadoop. Yahoo! and Google used Hadoop as a simple, focused product designed to index web pages for search. Today big data is... more
A data catalog is essential to provide a single place for data discovery for all kinds of data consumers: business users, data analysts and report developers. A large majority of these users have already chosen Tableau as the Business Intelligence and Analytics platform of choice. Informatica’s Enterprise Data Catalog allows data owners and data stewards to curate... more