Moving to the cloud is table stakes now. Business are adopting cloud infrastructure and applications faster to optimize cost and maximize ROI. As a result, iPaaS (integration platform as a service) has never been more important. At the simplest level, iPaaS is a cloud-friendly way to manage, develop, and integrate data and applications. But to... more
Co-authored with Sam Tawfik, Principal Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Integration. In Deloitte’s recent 2020 retail industry outlook, retailers are advised to focus on the following two critical success factors (among others)—technology/automation and partnerships. Lack of agility in the supply chain has recently plagued many manufacturing and retail businesses, including even big giants like Amazon, who... more
The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasized the need for operational resilience in the wake of unexpected business disruptions. IT leaders have been busy reviewing their business processes and technology stacks to make sure they support one of the central mandates of executive leadership: business continuity. For many of these leaders, cloud services like integration platform as... more
For many organizations, a key inhibitor to cloud modernization has been the difficulty migrating data from legacy tabular databases to modern translytical data platforms (which combine transactions and analytics) like MongoDB. As many of our customers are in the process of modernizing their applications with MongoDB, MongoDB has partnered with Informatica to help customers accelerate data... more
This second in a series focusing on the challenges and changes facing healthcare payers and providers focuses on how data management holds the promise of a cure for what ails the healthcare industry. Every transformational healthcare initiative today has a significant reliance on the availability of accessible, trusted and secure data. In my previous post,... more
If integration and data management are not already part of your technology and IT operations strategy, they soon will be. The push towards digital transformation and the adoption and consumption of lightweight microservices, advanced analytics, etc. are demanding more from today’s platforms. At the heart of today’s modernization initiatives is cloud technology. A lot of... 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
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
Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB provides the enterprise tremendous capability when building globally available applications, especially when low latency, consistency, and redundancy are critical success factors. But as with nearly any globally available enterprise solution, it usually requires a composite set of technologies to work together in harmony. Solutions built with Azure Cosmos DB will most... more
Higher education is in the process of being disrupted. Colleges and universities, both private and public institutions, are facing a decline in student enrollment, revenue shortfalls, and decreases in State funding. At the same time, the business models and assumptions of how to operate and scale these schools for a modern student body are all being questioned.... more