Informatica has a number of notable higher education customers, and many of them are simultaneously moving their systems to the cloud while also focusing on improving student and alumni engagement. As I quickly approach my own undergraduate graduation in a few weeks, I find the University of Michigan Ross School of Business to be a... more
It’s almost end of 2018 and it’s the best time of the year. We are excited about upcoming holidays and the time we can spend with family and friends – the holiday cheer – time to unwind and relax – and get ready for 2019. It’s also the time to start thinking about your organization’s... more
Hello, A happy third month of the year to my readers! Here at Informatica, our team has been working tirelessly to deliver on the vision that we launched at the beginning of the year. As a reminder, at the beginning of the year we delivered our milestone release of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) Winter 2017 –... more
Hybrid IT is here to stay – from Infrastructure and Platforms (AWS/Azure/Google) to SaaS (Software as a Service) and from Mobile to Social – companies are now heavily dependent upon data sources that sit outside of the traditional firewall. The move to the cloud is happening fast – perhaps faster than anyone could have predicted,... more
Part 1 – I, Robot Sometimes, when writing a word document, I would spell a word so wrong, that MS Office spell check would just give up on me. It would say to me, “Lady, I know all the words in the English dictionary, and I have no clue what you want to say.” I... more
The cloud is proving to be immensely popular as it provides self-service, elastic, managed, on-demand infrastructure, platform and solutions to the organization. Organizations can put just about any process, application or system in the cloud, the data warehouse being one of them. Snowflake is one such data warehouse purpose built for the cloud. According to... more
National Instruments (NI) is a global company producing software and hardware empowering scientists and engineers to measure and automate the world around them. NI has more than 35,000 customers worldwide, $1 billion in revenue and serves industries such as Electronics, Aerospace, Defense, Energy, Automotive, Wireless, Heavy Equipment, Industrial Machinery, Academic and Research, Semiconductor and RF/Mobile.... more
If you are considering Amazon Redshift for your new data warehousing project, you are definitely not alone! Many of our customers are going through a data-driven digital transformation and have already implemented modern data warehouse projects with Amazon Redshift. Yet many more are requesting our help to do so now. Major drivers for this... more
My last post took a closer look at the IT roadmap. For a cloud migration, a transformation around data analytics, or any long-term IT revolution, you create a roadmap to guide you from your present state to the desired future vision. But that begs a question: How do you know what that future vision should... more
This post continues a series on taking your cloud journey from strategic vision to practical reality. Previously: Lessons from the Field: The One Question You Have to Answer Four Ways to Keep Your Cloud Evolution on Track How Data Governance Keeps Your Journey to Cloud on Track In recent posts, I’ve discussed the process of... more