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
Defining APIs: Lightweight APIs and Data APIs In my previous post, I discussed the “API first” approach and API hub as essential ingredients for a successful data management strategy. As “API first” approach suggests that we define the API first, it makes us think about its purpose. This gives rise to some fundamental questions. What... more
If you take any data processing pipeline – be it for data integration, data quality, data matching and mastering, data security, data masking or a B2B data exchange pipeline – data is read from somewhere and written somewhere for further consumption. All data processing pipelines start and end with connectivity. In addition to reading and... more
In order to take advantage of the latest developments in cloud for analytics technologies, many organizations are looking to add cloud data warehousing to their data ecosystems. Whether it is fast, on-demand data warehouses at any scale, better web analytics, machine learning or APIs, the cloud provides compelling opportunities. In IDG’s recent 2018 Cloud Computing... more
Plain old ‘Real time search’ in MDM is not only a thing of the past but also proved to be frustratingly elusive without spicing it up with some ‘smartness’. Informatica MDM, as always, is leading the way with its smart search capabilities. You can technically ‘Googlize’ the master data entities for your data stewards. It... more