Data Integration - What's Changed?

Informatica has announced the availability of Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), which is an integration platform as a service. One aspect of this is that provides cloud portability.

Syncsort has acquired Trillium Software: I admit to not expecting this

Another one of my occasional digs at misleading marketing material, this time from CloverETL

Like stock markets users do not like uncertainty and until certitude is returned these are dangerous waters for Informatica

Informatica World announcements

BackOffice is moving towards a much more tool agnostic (not just SAP) approach and across the spectrum of data integration/governance functions.

Informatica is building support for big data query preparation and self-service.

Dell Boomi has released the latest iteration of its data integration product.

There is a surprising lack of primary research to support any kind of claim with regards to the cost of, or cost-effectiveness of, data integration solutions.

This paper is about how business intelligence complements analytic processes and applications - and how both of these are complemented by data governance.

New announcements from Informatica

Talk to any vendor in the data integration market and they will tell you that their biggest competitor is hand coding. Why? The simple answer is...

The data replication market is hotting up, especially for support real-time query processing.

IBM’s data integration products provide three methods for delivering data: ETL (extract, transform and load), which provides bulk (batch) data loading functionality; data federation, which supports virtual data delivery; and data replication, which allows incremental updates. The use of ETL…

Talend is established as the leading open source provider for data integration and the introduction of a unified data management solution represents a major step forward for the company.

DataFlux's Unity project is about to come to fruition

Comments from Informatica's recent analyst conference

Informatica 9, the company's major new release, has some interesting and significant new capabilities

Cadis provides enterprise data management (EDM) for the buy side of capital markets

SnapLogic's SnapStore is an interesting idea for everything from connectors to complete dataflows