Senior Manager, Data Integration
As we all prepare to wrap up the year, I can’t help but think about the great opportunities and challenges for the upcoming year. Our industry is hotter than ever. We’re witnessing an unprecedented creation of and demand for information. The exponential adoption of mobile technologies continues to push the demands for data even higher and faster than ever before. In this environment of unconstrained mobility and 24×7 operations, organizations are increasingly facing the same challenge of how to transform terabytes of data into relevant, consumable information in a timely manner.
To date, most organizations have invested millions of dollars on procuring, implementing and maintaining data integration tools that perform critical processes within the information “value-chain.” Unfortunately, the majority of existing data integration implementations are focused solely on solving functional problems, neglecting the need for fast performance and data scalability. Altogether, the explosion of data and the lack of scalable, performance-driven DI tools have created critical data performance bottlenecks that can hinder an organization’s ability to operate and compete.
For example, at this very moment a leading online retailer must analyze hundreds of millions of records to derive critical information about customer preferences, online behavior, and latest trends. Failure to do so can result in severe revenue losses and customer attrition during this holiday season. Similarly, businesses in all industries and markets are increasingly facing data performance bottlenecks in areas such as business intelligence, data warehousing, marketing analytics, and clickstream analysis to name a few. Therefore, the key question many organizations are asking is how do we accelerate our existing data integration processes to fit into the ever shrinking batch windows?
In order to solve this problem, organizations have to look at solutions that seamlessly leverage and integrate with their existing infrastructure while providing the required performance boost to remain relevant and competitive. This is what data integration acceleration is all about! In fact, data integration acceleration can very well play a big role in determining the success of any new or existing data initiative in the coming years. If it isn’t already on it, data integration acceleration just might make a worthy addition to your holiday wish list!
Senior Manager, Data Integration
The tide is changing. Just as everyone is talking about high performance, businesses and governments alike are struggling to unlock more value from their data in less time. It is no wonder that a growing number of IT professionals around the world are recognizing the need for fast, simple and efficient data integration.
Did somebody say FAST? Yes, performance is now more than ever a critical success factor for any data integration initiative. After all, time is money, right? Well, the same principle applies for your data. Information is only valuable as long as it is actionable and relevant. And in most cases, the actionable window is shrinking. Performance becomes a matter of practical survival.
I’m in Orlando this week at the TDWI conference where Syncsort is making one of its biggest data integration product announcements in years. I cannot help but thinking that the timing could not be any better for DMExpress 6.5. Did someone say Data Integration Acceleration? Yes, it’s all about clearing data performance bottlenecks without killing your budget during the process: simple, efficient and fast. For us, DMExpress 6.5 is more than just another product release. It is Data Integration Acceleration delivered for customers!
Senior Manager, Data Integration
More than ever, data is permeating every aspect of our lives, from the way we do business to the individual choices that we make such as a picking a specific restaurant or a consumer product. More than ever, we all play a key role as producers and consumers of information. This brings an enormous challenge to organizations who must transform this data into much needed insights: insights to grow, to compete, to survive.
Last week, hundreds of organizations from all around the world gathered at the annual Teradata Partners user conference in San Diego to learn and exchange ideas on how to leverage one of their most valuable assets: their data. Hundreds of sessions, analysts, and employees from all sectors and industries revolved around a few common denominators:
- Extreme data volumes: every day organizations collect a tremendous amount of data, coming from multiple and often disparate sources
- Accessibility of information: new paradigms such as mobility and collaboration are increasing the accessibility of information, making information available to thousands of previously under-served users
- Effective data integration strategies: extreme data volumes coupled with new and revolutionary paradigms for accessing and delivering information will demand extreme data integration solutions
To date, most data integration strategies have focused solely on solving functional problems, neglecting the need for fast performance and extreme data volumes. Therefore, organizations are increasingly facing critical performance bottlenecks that can hinder their ability to capitalize on their IT investments, and thus to operate and compete. For instance, a major health care management organization must deliver hundreds of thousands of reports containing daily claims to insurance companies. Failure to deliver these reports to its customers can result in critical errors administering and delivering health benefits to individuals. Similarly, businesses in all industries and markets are increasingly facing performance bottlenecks in diverse areas.
Three weeks ago I joined a company that – along with great people and unique technology – has set itself to address the data integration “acceleration” challenge in a world of extreme data volumes and increasing demands for information: How to accelerate the existing data integration processes to fit into the ever shrinking batch windows? How to help companies harness the power of their data?
Organizations that can build holistic data integration strategies – looking not only at functional but also at performance requirements – to provide timely, relevant information to the hand of common non-technical users, will succeed in capturing new markets and revenue opportunities.
Is your organization ready to take the challenge? The journey promises to be not only challenging but also exciting and rewarding. There’s no place I would rather be today.
The industry says “Big Data” I say, Bring it on! See you next time at Syncsort!
Director of Marketing, Data Integration
Data is critical to every important decision an organization makes. However, even the best data integration environments can unravel under the pressure of exponentially growing data and shrinking decision-making windows. The impact that this can have on a business is something we like to call the “Perfect Storm.”
To help organizations better navigate around these challenges, we are announcing a new “Perfect Storm” seminar series that will kick off in September. The series will feature industry experts and customers discussing the steps they have taken to eliminate performance bottlenecks to significantly reduce elapsed processing times, more efficiently utilize resources and achieve rapid time to value.
The first set of seminars we are announcing today include:
Chicago – September 14
Dallas – September 15
Los Angeles – September 15
Orange County – September 16
We hope to see you at one of the upcoming events!
