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- What we will want from our enterprise architects in 2009
- As observed in previous posts, employment prospects for enterprise architects remain bullish, since many organizations are challenged with integration and IT-business alignment. Over at the Informatica Perspectives site, I posted a piece spotlighting the five key qualities to look for in an enterprise architect, circa 2009. Here...
- Tags: Enterprise Architect, Research & Development, Business Operations, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Cassina Packaging Group Deploys ERP Solution to Support Corporate Growth and International Expansion
- Cassina Packaging Group wanted to produce a single application suite for all its companies and install the information system in a single location to optimize operating costs. The challenge was to adopt a multilingual system with several different localizations and ensure that complete information is on hand immediately to support...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., ERP, Strategy, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Spike in enterprise 'events' spurs debut of Event Processing Technical Society
- The recent growth -- and expected spike -- in business event data in enterprises has led a group of IT industry leaders to form the Event Processing Technical Society EPTS, designed to encourage adoption and effective use of event processing methods and technology in applications. Among the...
- Tags: Event, Podcasts, Utility Computing, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- The Netbooks are coming: Laptop cannibalization today; Smartphone war tomorrow?
- The message out of Computex this week is loud and clear: The Netbooks are coming. Intel is touting its Atom processor. Acer is on the board with its Aspire one. Microsoft is adapting Windows to the Netbook market. Nvidia says Netbooks will be graphics intensive. The big question: Are buyers...
- Tags: Computex, Device, Acer Inc., Smartphone, Laptop Computer, Netbooks, Computing Device, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Notebooks, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-03
- Informatica is on the block say senior sources
- Informatica is on the block say senior sourcesSenior sources say...I have heard from two junior sources that Tom Foremski is a woman.
- Tags: Informatica
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Informatica is on the block say senior sources
- I have heard from two senior sources in the software industry that Informatica [INFA] is on the block and it has approached Oracle [ORCL]. I don't know what the possible acquisition price would be or any further details. Informatica's share price closed at $16.45 on Friday May 9. It's...
- Tags: Informatica, Oracle Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-05-11
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
- Rob Ashe, general manager of IBM's business intelligence and performance management unit, has had a busy year. He sold his company, Cognos, to IBM for $5 billion and has stayed on as a member of IBM's leadership team. Ashe's role day to day hasn't changed too much....
- Tags: Cognos Inc., Software-as-a-service, IBM Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Software As A Service (SaaS), Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- News to know: Microsoft interoperability; Bypassing FileVault; Woz; Black Hat; More benchmarks
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft pledges interoperability--again Reading the fine print on Microsoft's new open-source promises Larry Dignan: Microsoft's real game: Open interoperability protects its stack Dana Gardner: Microsoft on open APIs: New tune or blowing more smoke? Dana Blankenhorn:...
- Tags: Black Hat, Interoperability, Disk, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Corp., Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- Informatica offers Data Migration Suite; Wipro to leverage its power
- Informatica Corp. is addressing the crucial issue of data access by packaging its data integration software as Informatica Data Migration Suite, with an eye toward providing a solution for companies involved in mergers and acquisitions, consolidation, and outsourcing. With the shifting landscape of business today, as...
- Tags: Informatica, Wipro Technologies, Data Migration, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Spanish Financial Group Increases Network Performance and Reduces Server Costs
- In early 2007, Caja Madrid needed to redesign its Active Directory infrastructure to accommodate recent growth in its business and number of employees. The bank was interested in using the enhancements to Active Directory in Windows Server 2008 to improve its business processes. Caja Madrid worked with Microsoft Services and...
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- IRCE S.p.A. Improves Customer Communication Systems and Efficiency
- IRCE S.p.A. wanted to introduce an integrated financial and supply chain management system that integrates easily with automatic field detection systems in production and improve communication with customers regarding the status of orders and availability of products. The challenge was to implement a strong product traceability system that enables the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., SCM, IRCE S.p.A., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Gales Casa Cambiaria Integrates Information in a Single Robust Database
- Gales Casa Cambiaria wanted to integrate information in a robust, high-availability database in order to update information online and in real time throughout the organization and improve operating efficiency, accelerating business processes such as currency exchange service and Western Union money transfers to offer excellent client service. The challenge was...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Information, Gales Casa Cambiaria, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Informatica Powercenter 8 on Sun's AMD Opteron Processor Blade Servers
- PowerCenter 8 is a single, unified enterprise data integration platform that allows companies and government organizations of all types and sizes to access, discover, and integrate data from virtually any business system, in any format, and deliver that data throughout the enterprise. The Enterprise Grid Option for PowerCenter 8 incorporates...
- Tags: Informatica, Blade Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., AMD Opteron, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., PowerCenter 8, Processors, Servers, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Talend brings open source to enterprise data integration
- The enterprise open source software parade continues with Talend, which is bringing its data integration software. Talend Open Studio v2.0 generates data integration processes in Java and offers Extract, Transform and Load ETL functions for data warehousing and analytics, working on scale out, commodity hardware grids. It includes over...
- Tags: IT Management, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Profiling: Calculating Return on Investment for Data Migration and Data Integration Projects
- Data profiling is an essential step in the data integration lifecycle. Getting it right from the start can dramatically reduce the time it takes to plan and execute data integration strategies. Before data can be integrated or used in a data warehouse, CRM, ERP or business analytics application, its content,...
- Tags: Informatica, ROI, Migration, Data Integration, Informatica Data Explorer
- White papers 2007-03-26
- Informatica puts integration on demand
- Informatica puts integration on demandthanks for explaining about thisIt is an informative story about market recognition within very old activity areas, and hints at how to make such services profitable.Good fortune to Informatica.Tried it, Like It.We've tried out this tool and have been very impressed with its ease of use....
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Informatica
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Informatica puts integration on demand
- Want to work with your Salesforce.com data in Oracle or SQL Server? No time to build your own custom integration? From today, you can use Informatica On Demand, a hosted service from the enterprise data integration vendor. Im highlighting this new service because it breaks decisively with the tradition that...
- Tags: Integration
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Government Organization Improves Help Desk Responsiveness With New Automated System
- The Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica INEGI, a government organization in Mexico responsible for national statistics and geographical information, relied on a paper-based, highly manual, time-consuming process for fielding internal customer support requests. Customer response times were slow and it was difficult to measure Help Desk performance or...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Government Organization, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations
- Case studies 2007-03-01
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