Cloud

It’s official – as of mid April, which was covered in another post – Microsoft Lync is now Skype for Business. As expected, customers who have Lync deployed either on premises or in the cloud have questions, and folks who use Skype for personal use are wondering how well this communication tool, which works wonders […]

Oracle BI EE 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.9) As you might know, Oracle has released OBIEE 11.1.1.9.0.   There are a host of new features that I know some of my clients have been looking for; including the ability to save calculated fields for reuse in other analyses, enhanced export functionality, and Hyperion Planning data source support.  We […]

Note: Today’s blog post comes from Vadim Tabakman, Technical Evangelist for Nintex with over 8 years of experience in SharePoint and Nintex technologies. He understands how SharePoint, business process automation and forms can join forces successfully in numerous industries and business scenarios to drive business adoption and succeed in SharePoint projects. Vadim brings an excellent […]

“Be the joyful digital disrupter, not the hesitant and befuddled digital disruptee.” – Bob Evans, SVP Communications, Oracle I’m a big fan of the recently concluded series Mad Men. The main theme of the show was societal change: Recognizing what has happened, what is happening, and dealing with it in one’s professional and personal lives. […]

At their recent Ignite conference in Chicago, Microsoft unleashed a flood of new information about their products and services across a wide variety of functions.   Business Intelligence was not left out, by any means, with announcements of exciting new cloud-based offerings such as Azure Data Warehouse and Azure Data Lake.  But given all the focus […]

Last week, Informatica hosted their annual world conference in Las Vegas, NV.  The title of the conference was “All Things Data”.  There were over 2,500 attendees at the conference, which included Informatica employees, partners, and clients.  There were four days of business and technical breakout sessions with a variety of topics from Big Data, Cloud, […]

As we get back into the swing of things after heading home from Microsoft Ignite (some of us didn’t have to go very far, lucky Chicagoans), we’re excited to have a bunch of new webinars lined up on various topics. One was today, on Skype for Business – stay tuned for that recap! Next up, […]

Yet again, Microsoft builds on their increasingly compelling Data Platform story by bringing out new offerings. As my colleague Stan Tartinovksy wrote last week, Azure Data Warehouse is coming.   But that’s not the only new piece of the Microsoft data environment. Also announced at the Ignite 2015 conference was a new Elastic Databases feature for Azure […]

When moving to Microsoft Azure, you may need migrate large amounts of data to the cloud. Traditional upload methods require moving that data across the public internet, which can be limited by a number of factors. The Azure Import and Export service for storage allows you to ship data into or out of an Azure Storage account […]

If you have already played with Sway (member of Office 365) then I bet you’re in love with it, and if you have not yet then you’re going to love this. I thought of presenting a recap of the conference in the form of a Sway publicly available here. Sway is an app that lets […]

A colleague posted on the Saleforce blog recently a brief post exemplifying why Informatica is a leader in real-time data integration. He writes… No secret or surprise that Informatica and Salesforce have been closely aligned and work very well together. Both are cloud solutions which free you from having to manage on-premise networks and access […]

  “I want to be the IT guy who’s out of the IT business.” –CIO at an asset management company. Earlier this week, I was reviewing Computerworld’s 2015 Tech Spending survey results, published a few months ago. Looking at the numbers again, it’s clear that the story isn’t about specific technologies as much as it […]