When someone asked me that question “what is the opposite of Artificial Intelligence?”, my immediate response was “human stupidity?” But just a few days ago, one of my colleagues, who shares my enthusiasm (or one can say geekaism) for AI based technology, sent me this GIF that illustrates so well the old ways of thinking... more
It’s not often that I run into the word “metadata” when I indulge in my favorite weekend habit of reading the Sunday New York Times (NYT). A few months ago, the paper published a special section focused on how NYT is digitizing and bringing back to life photographs published in the paper over fifty years... more
The TC18 afterglow is still fresh. My personal favorite? The great stories. This year, I was touched and inspired by two amazing data stories shared by executives from Charles Schwab and Pfizer on the TC18 keynote stage. I was so excited and grateful to hear these stories of data-driven digital transformation that I thought I’d... more
Comodo, who is a leading SSL provider that offers free anti-virus, internet security, firewall endpoint security, and other security tools — a company that specializes in security tools — had a breach. In March 2011 a critical security breach occurred at Comodo, damaging the company reputation and costing them a significant amount to mitigate the exposure. A... more
Welcome to the Next-Gen Analytics Strategies blog series in which I dive into five principal data management strategies for intelligent analytics. Today, we’ll examine optimizing a data pipeline for big data. When architecting a data management platform for analytics there are key components that are fundamentally necessary in building out a data pipeline. These data... more
In my first blog of this series on Next Gen Analytics Strategies I discussed the importance of investing in a data management platform with an enterprise unified metadata foundation powered by AI and described how the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform uses the CLAIRE™ engine to provide such a foundation. In this blog post I’ll explain... more
With a successful Informatica World 2018 behind us I’d like to share a recap of my session on Next Gen Analytics (NGA) Strategies in a six-part blog series (one on each strategy). I suggest you read the blog I wrote the week before Informatica World that summarized the strategies. Enterprise unified metadata foundation powered by... more
This blog is co-authored by Ron Lunasin and Rik Tamm-Daniels AI is probably one of the most hyped terms in technology of the last 5-10 years, if not of all time. Many companies are struggling to understand how to leverage the potential of AI. At Informatica World 2018, Amit Walia, Informatica President, Product and Strategic Ecosystems, showcased... more
“Every great magic trick consists of three acts. The first part is called “The Pledge”. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you an object. The second act is called “The Turn.” The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now... more
Is blockchain – the global distributed ledger – suitable for any data environment? That’s the question taken up by Julian Ereth in one of his latest posts for Eckerson Group. His prognosis: hold that thought for now. “It is still unclear if and when blockchain will make its way into enterprise data architectures,” he says.... more