Google Cloud Next has grown into a large cloud industry event with more than 25,000 people gathered at the conference in San Francisco this July. Google is investing heavily in bringing its data innovations to Google Cloud and growing the Google Cloud partner ecosystem. Since Diane Greene joined Google Cloud 2 years ago, Google has... more
Increasingly, new data warehouses are being built in the cloud with Google Cloud picking up great momentum. Cloud infrastructure providers have evolved in the past couple of years and many organizations are coming to view cloud data warehouses as more secure, more reliable and more enterprise friendly than the traditional on-premises options. This doesn’t mean... more
In keeping with a rapidly deepening and strengthening partnership with Snowflake, we are making strides in ensuring that we stay in lockstep with our technical integration as well. We are excited to announce that starting August 2018, Informatica will be offering support for Snowflake on Azure. This support will be available across our Data Integration... more
Massimo Pezzini, VP and Gartner Fellow recently said, and I quote, “The provider that controls the cloud integration layer, can understand its customers’ business processes, better than the customers themselves.”* As the leading iPaaS (integration platform-as-a-service) vendor in the market, Informatica takes its responsibility very seriously. Enabling our customers to focus on their business and... more
How often do you use social media to engage with a brand to express your concerns or appreciation? And how often does that company respond with something meaningful to you? Being a regular customer at WholeFoods, I have always enjoyed their customer service. A recent example caught my eye. With almost 5 million followers, the... more
Marc Andreessen penned his famous “Why Software Is Eating the World” essay in The Wall Street Journal seven years ago. The idea that “every company needs to become a software company” is now conventional wisdom. Digital transformation is today’s reality and integrating your systems resident in multiple clouds as well as on-premises is crucial for all businesses, not... more
Any vendor who helps your company move data to the cloud will promise Quick and Easy. Taking the headaches out of a potentially massive migration is one of the main selling points for every technology provider involved in the process. Who would suggest adding steps, costs, time, or complexity to the process of putting your... more
SIIA recently honored Informatica with a big win announcing that we won the best iPaaS award for 2018. The team has been working hard on major updates, additions, integrations and functionality to our iPaaS and it has paid off! We were up against some big industry competitors, but came out on top because of our... more
The Informatica team congratulates Medidata on becoming a 2018 Innovation Award Honoree. A big thank you to the Medidata team that came to Informatica World to share the results of their modernization project. Medidata’s story about accelerating clinical trials and revenue growth by using Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services together with AWS (Amazon Web Services) to... more
Recently, I’ve been using this “Journey to Cloud” blog to look at specific challenges that I or my team have seen in organizations implementing cloud solutions. But for this post, I’d like to step back to the macro view to discuss strategy. Tech journalist John Gallant and I have just finished a guide to data... more