Andrew White

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Informatica Analyst Event February 26-27th 2013 – some thoughts

by Andrew White  |  March 1, 2013  |  2 Comments

I had the pleasure of attending Informatica’s annual analyst event.  It was a good couple of days, filled with lots of god insight and it helped me understand the Informatica strategy.  There was much to look at during the event that is pleasing to the eye, and suggesting that progress is being made and success [...]

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Category: Cloud Heiler Informatica Information Governance Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Information Trust Innovation Master Data Management MDM     Tags: ,

MDM is not an infrastructure solution…it is a business solution…

by Andrew White  |  February 9, 2010  |  8 Comments

Did you notice the slight change in messaging and positioning that Informatica is making with its acquisition of Siperian?  Siperian was focused on messaging a business solution; whereas in the latest marketing information from Informatica, the Siperian stuff is described as a “MDM infrastructure”. I think this is a talking point.  What does this signal?  [...]

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Category: Informatica MDM Siperian     Tags: , ,

Why did Informatica purchase Siperian, rather than use Talend’s OSS MDM?

by Andrew White  |  February 1, 2010  |  4 Comments

A user asked me this question the other day and I thought it was worth posting.  Of course, there are probably a few good reasons.  The chief of which might have been that Informatica was not aware of the availability of the Open Source Software based MDM application from Talend.  But there are other conditions [...]

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Category: Open Source MDM Siperian     Tags: , , ,