A global leader in agricultural products and services, an Informatica customer with strategic growth fueled by mergers and acquisitions, purchased Informatica Data Archive in 2014 to establish an enterprise-wide capability for structured data archiving. Data archiving allows legacy and duplicate applications to be decommissioned while remaining compliant with retention and legal policies. As it turns... more
Are you responsible for data archives at your organization, and wondering if you should attend Informatica World 2017. If so, here are key questions to ask yourself: Are there a lot of legacy applications in your IT portfolio? Are you looking to free up some of your IT budget, in order to fund new innovations?... more
Transformation is one of those buzzwords of the moment usually preceded by Digital, BSS or OSS. It’s at this point that many people start to debate what it actually means. Once you are past that discussion the business must concern itself with how can we transform. To achieve a successful transformation, like any journey, before... more
Gartner released their Data Archiving MQ on June 13, 2016. Gartner has positioned Informatica as a Leader in its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement report. In the 2016 Magic Quadrant, Informatica is positioned at the highest point, as well as furthest to the right, showing both an ability to execute... more
The results are in for the 2015 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement. And… (drum roll please)… Once again, Gartner has recognized Informatica as a Leader in the data archiving market. There are more specifics below but the summary is that Gartner recognized the Informatica Data Archive product, support and services... more
What are the first steps of a data integration project? Most are at a loss. There are several ways to approach data integration, and your approach depends largely upon the size and complexity of your problem domain. With that said, the basic approaches to consider are from the top-down, or the bottom-up. You can be... more
For the first time, Gartner has released a Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement . This MQ describes an approach for how customers can proactively manage data growth. We are happy to report that Gartner has positioned Informatica as a leader in the space. This is based on our ‘completeness of vision’ and... more
What springs to mind when you think about old applications? What happens to them when they outlived their usefulness? Do they finally get to retire and have their day in the sun, or do they tenaciously hang on to life? Think for a moment about your situation and of those around you. From the time... more
I recently met with a longtime colleague from the Oracle E-Business Suite implementation eco-system, now VP of IT for a global technology provider. This individual has successfully implemented data archiving and data masking technologies to eliminate duplicate applications and control the costs of data growth – saving tens of millions of dollars. He has freed... more