So, it’s here! The US Office of Management and Budget published the Federal Data Strategy on June 4, 2019 and simultaneously issued a draft implementation plan for public comment and feedback. That followed the January 14, 2019 OPEN Government Data Act, enacted as part of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Making law. Arguably, key portions of the... more
It seems that only a couple of years ago data integration architecture was simple. If you wanted to move data from one place to another, you simply used a manually triggered ETL process, and that was it. These days, however, most enterprises and organizations are going through a digital transformation – which requires a different... more
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink” goes the oft-repeated line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The same could be said about the challenge of finding relevant data in a sea of data as enterprises embark on digital transformation of their businesses. Digitization of business is leading... more
One of my favorite quotes (often attributed to Albert Einstein) says “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once”. I have come to think about this saying many times in my personal life, but recently I have come to think about it while helping one of our customers define their... more
If you look at the analytical dashboard of a logistics, procurement or supply chain manager you may find KPIs such as OTIF, fill rate, etc. Most of the time you will see the respective figures to be around 96-99%. This is commonly understood to be an outstanding operational performance when it comes to shipping OR... more
Over the course of the last year increasingly more clients have been inquiring with us about the topic of “Data Monetization”. In other words, they wanted to learn more about how Informatica enables their ability to “sell” their existing data from operations instead of just archiving them away or deleting them. As you can imagine,... more
Finding it hard to keep up with the increasing business demand on your PowerCenter data integration platform? Or finding it hard to plan for capacity of your PowerCenter domain while keeping the cost optimized? Does it take weeks, if not months to add additional compute capacity? Informatica is happy introduce Auto-Scale feature for PowerCenter Grids,... more
Informatica is pleased to announce the availability of PowerCenter Pay As You Go (PAYG) on AWS Marketplace. Now you can quickly launch Informatica PowerCenter on AWS with just few clicks. Within couple of hours you can start developing your data integration project. You can also manage the upfront infrastructure cost as per the business needs.... more
Operational Insights is a single pane of glass for monitoring and managing Informatica data management software. In this release, you can efficiently manage PowerCenter installations running in one or more of your datacenters or in the cloud. With insightful analytics, best practices recommendations by CLAIRE, integrated health monitoring and domain auto-scale, you will be able... more
I recently travelled to South Africa to present the keynotes at our Informatica Data Disruption Roundtable events in Johannesburg and Cape Town and meet with customers. Since it was my first visit to Africa, it was an eye-opening experience. The striking beauty of the wildlife and scenery in Cape Town combined with the contrasts of... more