Machine Learning and AI: The Hype is Real When it Comes to Data
Virtually every business is planning or executing a major digital transformation involving new business models, new technologies, and new processes. There are several essential ingredients for a...
View ArticleInformatica Proud to Take Home Two Datanami 2017 Reader’s Choice Awards
A big thank you to everyone who voted for the Datanami 2017 Data Management Cataloging and Prep Reader’s choice awards. We are honored to receive first place recognition in both– the “Big Data Product...
View ArticleNeed a Shopping Experience for Data Assets? An Intelligent Data Catalog is...
Need a shopping experience for data assets? I am a big fan of online shopping. Whether it is back to school or holiday shopping, I enjoy the shopping experience, flexibility and quick access to goods...
View ArticleEDC Discover for Tableau: In Context Data Catalog for Self Service BI
Informatica at the ongoing Tableau Conference A data catalog is essential to provide a single place for data discovery for all kinds of data consumers: business users, data analysts and report...
View ArticleUnlocking the Unstructured Data Treasure Trove
“Why are enterprises still clueless about unstructured data?” That’s the question asked by Reetika Fleming, writing at the HfS site. By clueless, Fleming points to an HfS study in which close to half...
View Article5 Steps to Building a Data Lake with Informatica Big Data Management on Azure
Big data is the underpinning of how companies are revolutionizing customer engagement, driving productivity and fueling innovation. It has emerged as a megatrend that is continuing to gain attention....
View ArticleA Veteran Informatica Partner Turns Its Focus to Customer Experience
*Guest post by Gil Rosen. Gil is NGDATA’s Head of Strategy and a veteran solution architect and data specialist. As former President and Founder of Eccella, Gil built a global data and analytics...
View ArticleDriving Metadata Intelligence with Informatica’s Enterprise Data Catalog
There hasn’t been a more exciting time for metadata, at least not since President Obama referred to metadata in the context of phone calls – and bestowed it with a whiff of notoriety. Now metadata,...
View ArticleColumn Similarity: Metadata Intelligence for Curation and Consumption
Ability to accurately label columns, attributes and fields is a critical requirement for both data discovery and data governance. However, organizations can have millions of datasets and hundreds of...
View ArticleBig Data Management is Cloud Ready at Informatica World 2018
Sometimes people lose sight of the “why” of big data. It’s all about delivering actionable insights that will give your organization a leg up on your competition. This can be by creating new sources...
View ArticleGelato or no Gelato? Why Scream, if you have a Data Catalog!
It’s 4.50pm and it’s time to call it a day. Sarah planned this day carefully, so she can drop off her son to soccer practice and daughter to gymnastics. And she can visit the new gelato place all by...
View ArticleA New World Order: From Debits and Credits to Policies and Catalogs
When medieval Europe moved towards a monetary economy it became necessary for merchants to account for multiple transactions financed by bank loans. In 1494 Luca Pacioli a Franciscan monk conveniently...
View ArticleNextGen Operational Insights for Informatica Big Data Management
Informatica is happy to announce the next generation of operational monitoring and analytics for Big Data Management (BDM) on Operational Insights. Operational Insights is a hybrid cloud service to...
View ArticleLittle Kids, Little Problems, Big Kids, Big Problems
I was talking with a colleague recently about our kids and we were sharing stories about the challenges of raising them. While Jim is starting out on the journey (his kids are 1 and 3), I am nearing...
View ArticleInformatica Recognized as the Best Solution Award for Driving Customer...
I’m excited to share that Informatica was recently recognized as the Best Solution to ‘Drive Customer Insights’ at Cloudera’s 6th annual Partner Summit, held on September 10, 2018 in New York City! The...
View ArticleHow Self-Service Has Rewritten Data Management for Analytics
I joined Informatica just a few weeks ago to lead marketing for our big data management portfolio. And there is no better way to dive into the Informatica community than to start blogging. So that’s...
View Article3 Reasons Why Data Lakes Have Not Delivered Business Value and What You Can...
As a new employee at Informatica leading product marketing for our big data management portfolio, I’ve been spending a lot of time evaluating the data management landscape for analytics. One CIO.com...
View ArticleWhat Can Businesses Learn from the Sporting Use of Data
Now that evenings are getting longer and there’s a noticeable chill in the air, if you’re like me, you’re spending more time at home in front of the TV cheering for your favorite sports teams. And of...
View ArticleTransform Customer Experience with an Intelligent Data Catalog
As enterprises embark on their digital transformation journey, transforming customer experience has emerged as the north star guiding this journey and ensuring focus on the right set of priorities....
View Article5-on-5: Foundational Big Data Management for Compelling Customer Experience
Basketball season is well underway, with every team putting its best five starters to take on the opponent’s starting five. Some teams started with a splash and have their winning combo of five, some...
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