By R "Ray" Wang on March 18, 2013
Informatica Sets The Stage For A New Chapter In Its History Informatica held its annual industry analyst day February 26th to 27th, 2013 at the Rosewood Sandhill in Menlo Park. The event showcased Informatica’s go-forward strategy and road map for growth over the next three years. Key highlights include: Capturing a $6.5B market opportunity in […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Active Endpoints, analyst event, Apps Strategy, BI, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, business intelligence, cdi, Cloud, cloud integration, CoIT, customer data integration, data governance, data integration, data quality, Data to Decisions, Decision Management, DQ, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise strategy, event report, Heiler, Informatica, information management, integration, master data management, mdm, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy
By Esteban Kolsky on February 13, 2013
Yes, I am serious. Of course, as everything else – it is all in context. Hear me out… I was in Mexico last week for SAP Forum (a well attended event where over 5,000 people went to discuss the current and future state of SAP and Enterprise Software in Latin America). As in Madrid for […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AddressTwo, customer relationship management, enterprise software, master data management, Mexico, sap, silo |
By R "Ray" Wang on June 13, 2011
Big Data Emerges As A Challenge In A World Of Unstructured Data Proliferation Data volumes continue to explode with a proliferation of devices, social media tools, video usage, and emerging forms of both structured and unstructured data. The rate of data explosion may be occurring faster than Moore’s Law. Organizations now face a significant challenge […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Big Data, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, hadoop, Informatica, information supply chain, integration, Map Reduce, master data management, mdm, middleware, middleware platforms, News Analysis, Product Review, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social analytics, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, Social CRM, Social Media, vendor strategy |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 17, 2011
Organizations Must Overcome Four Fears To Master Social Customer Data Over the past few weeks, I’ve been criss-crossing the country on a multi-city speaking tour talking about the strategic value of customer data. (In full discloure, the tour is sponsored by Informatica). As we talk about the implications of social media and customer data, inevitably […]
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, CIO, CMO, CRM, customer data integration, Customer Hubs, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, master data management, mdm, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social business, Social Business Software, social business strategist, social commerce, Social CRM, social customer insights, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Social Media, social media monitoring, social sales insights, social service, social support, social support insights, social technologies, socialytics, Tuesday's Tip, Tuesday’s Tip
By R "Ray" Wang on May 9, 2011
Customers Have Evolved… Has Your Organization? Right now customers and prospects probably ignore your organization’s marketing messages because mass marketing campaigns lack relevancy. Right now most customers answer each other’s questions because your customer service and support agents lack the authority or knowledge to resolve issues. Right now prospects ask each other what they think […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, CIO, CMO, Constellation Research, customer data integration, customer engagement, customer experience management, Customer Hubs, Data deluge, data governance, data integration, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise software, Informatica Customer Data Forum, information management, information supply chain, master data management, mdm, Monday's Musings, Monday’s Musings, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0 |
By R "Ray" Wang on January 2, 2011
Themes In 2010 Reflected The Buy Side Demand For Both Optimization and Innovation Technology buyers in 2010 focused most of their priorities on finding cost savings through legacy optimization, navigating a flurry of disruptive technologies, and designing/experimenting with new business model innovations. Consequently, the top 25 posts for 2010 reflected these 3 major themes: Legacy […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged activity streams, analytics, Apps Strategy, Business Analytics, business intelligence, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, cloud integration, Cloud options, Cloud Wars, Consumer Tech, contract negotiations, contract strategy, Enterprise 2.0, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, Epicor, Epicor 9, Legacy Optimization, license credits to new products, license fees, license management, license parking, license policy, master data management, mdm, Mergers And Acquisitions, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Services Platform, Microsoft Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics, MIcrosoft Dynamics ERP, Microsoft Dynamics GP, next gen, next gen apps, next gen cio, next gen enterprise, procurement, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Research Summary, rwang0, SaaS, salesforce.com, Scout Labs, SCRM, social business, Social Business Software, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Social Media, social technologies, software as a service, software bill of rights, software contract reviews, Software Ecosystems, software escrow, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software maintenance, software pricing, thanks, Third Party Maintenance, two-tier ERP, upgrades, user strategy, Vendor Selection, vendor strategy, VMware, Web 2.0, workday
By Merv Adrian on November 26, 2010
Cloudera‘s continuing focus on the implications of explosive data growth has led it to another key partnership, this time with Informatica. Connecting to the dominant player in data integration and data quality expands the opportunity for Cloudera dramatically; it enables the de facto commercial Hadoop leader to find new ways to empower the “silent majority” […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Amazon, Cloudera, data integration, data quality, Data warehouse, EC2, EDW, hadoop, HDFS, ibm, Industry Trends, Informatica, mapreduce, master data management, Membase, RDBMS, Siperian, Sqoop, Teradata, Vertica |
By Jason Busch on November 4, 2010
Spend Matters is thrilled to announce our most recent Compass Research brief, Making ERP Procurement Technology Work — Essential Third-Party Technologies, Solutions and Deployment Models to Accelerate Returns, part of our third C…
Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged master data management, oracle, PeopleSoft, research, sap, Spend Management, Spend Matters Compass
By Jason Busch on August 24, 2010
In the first post in this series, I provided some context on how RollStream is breaking out of the supplier information management (or supplier/enterprise community management, as they describe it) mold and building customer tract…
Posted in Business | Tagged Business Model, master data management, product information management, rollstream, Spend Management, supplier information management
By R "Ray" Wang on June 28, 2010
BI Solutions Must Address The Information Management Matrix A confluence of changing business requirements and on-going vendor consolidation leads many organizations to rethink their business intelligence (BI) strategies. Many buyers face decisions to move beyond departmental solutions or to stay with an integrated apps based BI solution. Meanwhile, some buyers must decide whether or not […]
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