When I started my career in the software business, sometime between the late 80s and the early 90s, emerging technology vendors were rapidly competing for a dominant global market share. Time was of the essence and no matter the size of their own salesforce, these large multinational companies couldn’t scale to meet the gigantic addressable... more
People around the world come to Informatica events to receive training and certification on the latest technologies. But what happens when in-person events go away? Earlier this year we were gearing up for a number of certification sessions to meet demand for training on our cloud-native solutions. Then COVID hit. Going virtual was the obvious... more
Cloud is the modern technology foundation for most of today’s digitally driven financial services industry. Regardless of size, companies across all sectors, from banking to brokerages, are investing in new cloud-based solutions for modern business applications, transaction platforms, and analytics to improve customer experience, simplify IT, and reduce ongoing operational costs. According to Forbes, 67%... more
Ever since connected personal computers became the standard for business operations in the late 20th century, businesses have prioritized disaster recovery and uptime for business-critical applications. The cloud explosion of this decade has heightened this sensitivity, as data-driven functional access for consumers and partners has become as important as employee access itself to a company’s... more
How do you make more data available to more users? This is the question keeping many data professionals up at night. I recently met up with a friend, Sean, who works at a large pharmaceutical company. His organization is very sophisticated in how they approach analytics, and they have a very advanced research organization that... more
While at Dreamforce this year, it’s easy to say that interest in Salesforce was pretty high. This year, the message was all about “Customer 360” – the holy grail of achieving a complete 360-degree view of the customer. After all, as one of the leading CRM platforms, Salesforce has long championed the customer. Achieving that... more
Over the last several months we have made significant enhancements to address emerging customer use cases with Amazon Redshift. These include the development of new cloud services that are designed to target specific use cases, and also general enhancements within our existing Redshift connectivity. These along with our powerful data integration features and industry’s broadest... more
There’s a great deal of momentum in the industry to modernize traditional on-premises enterprise data warehouse (EDWs) and move into the cloud. Yet, these traditional EDWs have been the lifeblood of enterprise analytics for several decades, and during this time, they have grown, transformed, and taken on use cases they were never originally designed for.... more
Seven years ago, Amazon Web Services held the first re:Invent in Las Vegas. I remember it well – I was there as a speaker, talking about the first big data products Informatica had released dealing with hierarchical data processing at scale. I can’t overstate how significantly things have changed since then – for Informatica, for... more
Today, Microsoft announced its Azure Synapse Analytics offering that combines two core use cases for modern analytics into a single platform: cloud data warehousing and big data analytics. Extending the power of Azure SQL Data Warehouse with the parallel processing, in-memory performance of Spark, and a unified development environment, Microsoft has raised the bar for... more