Are Big Data and Analytics Finally Earning the Respect They Deserve?
Big Data and Analytics Finally Earning the Respect Want to get executives excited about all the possibilities of big data and analytics? Make it personal for them. That is, those business leaders –...
View ArticleBig Data Visualization: Even Pictures Have Their Limits
Big Data Visualization A recent newspaper article suggests that text-based emails are “short-circuiting” our cognitive processes, and that pictures are more effective at communicating information. The...
View ArticleBring Us Your BIGGEST Big Data Challenges
Big Data Challenges I was thrilled with Informatica’s $1 Million Dollar Big Data Ready Challenge announcement this week. It got me thinking about Howard Baldwin – Forbes community editor for Data...
View ArticleThe CIO Viewpoint Upon Big Data
Recently, I was able to ask some CIOs and other IT leaders about big data. I wanted to get a broader perspective on this topic because my previous CIO discussions had shown that CIOs are worried. CIOs...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons to Use Data Integration Hub v10 to Modernize your Data...
Top 10 Reasons to Use Data Integration Hub v10 Greater agility in adding and updating connected analytics systems and applications Hybrid orchestration of cloud and on-premise data integration in a...
View ArticleBig Data Utopia or Reality: Adding a New Dimension and Reducing Complexity at...
Big Data Utopia or Reality: Adding a new dimension and reducing complexity at once? Are you tired of the Big Data Buzz? Big data can still be a big mess, but also a big opportunity for marketing...
View ArticleThe Future of Big Data Is Here Today
A joint blog post from Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly and Informatica CEO Anil Chakravarthy Enterprises today have enormous opportunities to harness big data to improve their competitiveness. In this new age...
View ArticleBig Data Management – The Path Towards Repeatable Big Data Success
Big Data Management Brings SuccessOver the past 4 weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to attend our regional Informatica Day events in Dallas, Washington (DC) and Paris, France. It gave me the opportunity...
View ArticleEnabling Data Governance in a Big Data World
As new information management tech trends continue to emerge, I try to evangelize a truism that the core data governance framework, processes and best practices are agnostic of – and should support –...
View ArticleThe Big Data Hype is Over: Now the Real Work Begins!
The Big Data Hype is OverEvery year, as Fall approaches, I look forward to the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York. As a technology buff, I am constantly watching for the earliest signs of an...
View ArticlePutting Big Data to Work for Marketing – Finally We Can Connect All the Dots
Putting Big Data to Work for MarketingEvery time chiefmartec.com blogger Scott Brinker updates the Marketing Technology Landscape graphic, in which he lists all the vendors of marketing applications, I...
View ArticleBig Data in Automotive Accelerates from 0-60 in 3 seconds with Big Data...
In preparing for a Big Data presentation to one of the top 3 global automotive manufacturers I discovered many interesting benefits that Big Data can provide through connected vehicle and IoT programs....
View ArticleCIO Leadership: Preparing the Enterprise for Realities of Today’s Business
When I was in graduate school taking a Master’s in Business Strategy, I got to take a class in futures research. I walked away from this class with a number of rather sobering insights about the...
View ArticleMatching Customer Data on Hadoop
Matching Customer Data on Hadoop Customer data has just started to explode in all major line of business. Talk about Insurance Companies or Airlines, it is adding terabytes of data each passing day....
View ArticleTop Three Reasons Why We Love Informatica Big Data Management
In the big data world of Hadoop and NoSQL the spotlight has shifted to big data processing engines. Today, many different big data engines are available making it difficult for organizations to...
View ArticleThe Internet of Things and Data: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
The Internet of Things and Data The IoT has moved from the curiosity and speculation stage to the point in which practical; business applications are being built upon it, and there’s a need for more...
View ArticleNaked Marketing: A Big Data Marketing Operations Odyssey
In a recent blog post, Putting Big Data to Work for Marketing, I summarized how Informatica’s own marketing department transformed itself to attack some of the most intractable problems in B2B...
View ArticleThe Force Awakens and Big Data Management
The Force Awakens and Big Data Management There is no bigger movie than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We waited for it, imagined it, experienced it, saw it again, and some of us again and again. I work...
View ArticleNaked Marketing: Who’s Who Behind Our Big Data Marketing
In the first post of our Naked Marketing series, I talked about the motivation for our big data marketing operations transformation—the why. In this one, I want to introduce you to the who. Any change...
View ArticleIs Big Data Different because of its Audience?
I do not know about you, but every once while, two authors ideas snap together almost like they were created by one person. And more importantly, sometimes these authors’ ideas together explain...
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