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Comprehensive and Agile End-to-End Data Management

The trend toward integrated platforms of multiple tools and functions enables broader designs and practices that satisfy new requirements.

By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI

Earlier this week, I spoke in a webinar run by Informatica Corporation and moderated by Informatica’s Roger Nolan. I talked about trends in user practices and vendor tools that are leading us toward what I call end-to-end (E2E) data management (DM). My talk was based on three assumptions:

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Posted on June 30, 20160 comments


Data Warehouse Modernization: An Overview in 30 Tweets

By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI

To help you better understand what data warehouse (DW) modernization is, what variations it takes, who’s doing it, and why, I’d like to share with you the series of 30 tweets I recently issued on the topic. I think you’ll find the tweets interesting, because they provide an overview of data warehouse modernization in a form that’s compact, yet amazingly comprehensive.

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Posted on June 8, 20160 comments


Highlights from Informatica World 2016

Bigger than ever, with more user speakers and an impressive executive vision for product R&D

By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI

I just spent three days attending and speaking at Informatica World 2016 in San Francisco’s Moscone Center. Compared to previous years, this year’s event was bigger than ever, with over three thousand people in attendance and five or more simultaneous break-out tracks.

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Posted on May 31, 20160 comments


Modernizing Business-to-Business Data Exchange

Keep pace with evolving data and data management technologies, plus the evolving ecosystem of firms with whom you do business.

By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management

Earlier this week, I spoke in a webinar run by Informatica Corporation, along with Informatica’s Daniel Rezac and Alan Lundberg. Dan, Alan, and I talked about trends and directions in a very interesting data management discipline, namely business-to-business (B2B) data exchange (DE). Like all data management disciplines, B2B DE is modernizing to keep pace with evolving data types, data platforms, and data management practices, as well as evolving ways that businesses leverage exchanged data to onboard new partners and clients, build up accounts, improve operational efficiency, and analyze supply quality, partner profitability, procurement costs, and so on.

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Posted on April 29, 20160 comments


Modernizing Data Integration and Data Warehousing with Data Hubs

As data and its management continue to evolve, users should consider a variety of modernization strategies, including data hubs.

By Philip Russom, TDWI Research Director for Data Management

This week, I spoke in a webinar run by Informatica Corporation, sharing the stage with Informatica’s Scott Hedrick. Scott and I had an interactive conversation where we discussed modernization trends and options, as faced today by data management professionals and the organizations they serve. Since data hubs are a common strategy for capturing modern data and for modernizing data integration architectures, we included a special focus on hubs in our conversation. We also drilled into how modern hubs can boost various applications in analytics and application data integration operations.

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Posted on March 29, 20160 comments


Top Twelve Priorities for Data Warehouse Modernization

Top Twelve Priorities for Data Warehouse Modernization

By Philip Russom, Senior Research Director for Data Management, TDWI

No matter the vintage or sophistication of your organization’s data warehouse (DW) and the environment around it, it probably needs to be modernized in one or more ways. That’s because DWs and requirements for them continue to evolve. Many users need to get caught up by realigning the DW environment with new business requirements and technology challenges. Once caught up, they need a strategy for continuous modernization.

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Posted on March 24, 20160 comments