Paul Scott and I recently attended the Informatica World Conference in Washington DC. Here are some highlights from the event.
This is the first World conference since 2008. There were about 1300 attendees and 48 countries represented.
The keynote speaker was Richard Clarke. He is the former White House Counterterrorism Czar, serving under three different presidents. He spoke about Cyber War, Cyber Crime and Cyber Espionage. The last, espionage, is the biggest threat and most undetected. About 70% of espionage is undetected.
Clarke also mentioned the stuxnet worm and its implications. Since that time there has also been a news story about Cyber Espionage which makes his points even more relevant!
There were dozens of great sessions offered at the conference by both Informatica, partners and customers. Some of my favorites were:
- Master Your Data and Master Your Business using MDM
- Informatica Data Quality v9
- What’s New in PowerCenter and PowerExchange v9
- Lean Integration
- Velocity Methodology: Best Practices
- Top 10 Implementation Best Practices for MDM
My unscientific poll indicates that the most popular acronyms were MDM, ILM, DQ, B2B,CEP, SaaS, EDM, SOA, ERP and CRM.
I also learned some new terms at the conference, click on the following links to find out more. HADOOP. CEP. Lean Integration. Ultra Messaging.
Several new products and topics were popular at the conference!
- New version of PowerCenter (9.0.1)
- New version of Data Quality (9)
- New version of Master Data Management (9)
- The Informatica Marketplace – a web-based site for add-on products/services
- Cloud Integration
We both took advantage of the Hands-On-Labs that were offered for new products. And lastly, we were also able to meet with several key members of Informatica’s executives and were invited to participate in an Informatica event scheduled for January.
To wrap up, here’s a nice graphic showing Informatica’s Platform as it stands now.
