This is the age of digital transformation. Organizations are investing in upgrading their systems and business environments to cope with the challenges of an explosion of data—coming from streaming devices, new application technology, and other means—by turning to next-generation innovative solutions around IoT, enterprise data catalog, artificial intelligence (AI), and more. But the form of... more
Today most organizations are using cloud to accelerate and transform their business. Informatica is helping organizations manage their data in the cloud with the next generation of integration platform as a service (iPaaS), Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS). IICS provides a complete, modular, end-to-end solution for managing data in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Engineered... more
AI and analytics are clearly big trends in 2020. Many organizations are investing in AI and analytics in the cloud—modernizing data warehouses and data lakes—with the goal of achieving dramatic improvements in performance and competitive advantage. But are they building the right data foundation to achieve their goals? In “Reengineering Work: Don’t Automate, Obliterate,” an... more
The Rise of API Management In a previous post, I discussed application performance interface (API) strategy, focusing on an API-first approach and the importance of managing your APIs with an API hub. I also described the main building blocks for an API hub: a manager, a gateway, and a portal. But, you might ask, what... more
If integration and data management are not already part of your technology and IT operations strategy, they soon will be. The push towards digital transformation and the adoption and consumption of lightweight microservices, advanced analytics, etc. are demanding more from today’s platforms. At the heart of today’s modernization initiatives is cloud technology. A lot of... more
Of all the advantages of having a data warehouse in the cloud, the biggest advantage is that your data warehouse can be elastic. You can add or remove compute and storage as your demand grows and shrinks, as frequently as you need. Resizing with Amazon Redshift Amazon Redshift allows two major ways to resize your... more
According to Internet World Stats, as of June 2019, about 4.5 billion people in the world are connected to each other. I saw this first-hand during my recent trip to India. No matter where you are, you will see some form of connectivity. Even in the most poverty-stricken areas you will see satellite dishes strapped... more
Why It’s Time to Move Beyond the Integration Factory to an Integration Strategy and Enablement Team (ISET) What’s the right way to manage integration? It used to be that the answer was to build an “integration factory”— an in-house competency center with repeatable workflows and processes for data integration projects. But the factory model is... more
Every CIO of a large enterprise is thinking about their cloud strategy. Even if they are not moving to the cloud right now, they are most certainly planning for it at some time. Sometimes, it’s simply not feasible nor realistic for an enterprise to move everything to the cloud immediately and retire their existing infrastructure.... more
Good data, cloud computing, and agile, adaptable software: These are must-haves for any modern enterprise that wants to identify new paths and opportunities for growth, detect problems early on, and change directions as necessary based on business or market demands. Getting data is not the issue; most organizations have tons of data in their databases,... more