Maximize Your Return on Big Data

Maximizing Return on Big Data

Never before have we experienced such a profound transformative change in computing, which is taking the notion of "the information age" to a level unimagined even a few years ago. Cloud, social and mobile computing are changing everything in the world of data, and leading to the massive rise in variety, complexity and volume now dubbed "big data". Capitalizing on the business value of big data while avoiding unforeseen cost, complexity, and risk has become critical to your future success. In this session, you will...

• Uncover disciplines for measuring and continuously maximizing your "return on data", defined as the value of data divided by the cost of data
• Understand the impact of these megatrends on how you create, manage and utilize data
• Examine the multiple facets of the big data phenomenon, and its impact on your organization
• Learn about the latest release of the Informatica Platform, Informatica 9.5, and the capabilities necessary to ensure that you don't merely cope in the era of big data, but that you thrive.

Data Privacy – Protecting Data to Ensure Compliance

More than 84% of corporations have suffered at least one data breach in the last year. Sensitive data needs to be protected, both to safeguard it from unauthorized use and to comply with a growing number of privacy regulations. Learn about the unique capabilities provided by Informatica's Dynamic Data Masking product, and how customers are using it to protect sensitive information in real time—without costly, time-consuming changes to applications and databases. In this session, you will learn...

• Benefits of policy-driven security and monitoring for applications
• What Informatica's new Dynamic Data Masking offers
• How to secure both production and nonproduction (development, test, training) environments.

Agile BI – Delivering Intelligence Faster

To stay competitive and keep up with the rapid pace of change, the business needs new data and fresh insights on short notice. However, many IT organizations struggle to deliver the data and reports that the business needs and can trust. The backlog of requests and complaints from business users just keep growing, as IT is handcuffed by an inflexible, outdated data integration and analytics infrastructure. To address their unmet needs, the business often turns to shadow IT teams to create custom one-off solutions, which only exacerbates the complexity in the infrastructure. IT needs to embrace agile business intelligence and data integration architecture and techniques to accelerate the process with early business involvement, meet both analytical and real-time operational requirements, and deliver on the fast changing demands of the business. In this session, you will learn...

• Drivers behind the need for greater BI (business intelligence) agility
• Barriers to achieving agile BI
• New approaches to architecting, implementing and operationalizing a responsible, flexible data architecture to deliver agile BI .
• Techniques for managing the convergence of the analytical and operational worlds.

What’s New in the World of PowerCenter

Learn about how groundbreaking new capabilities in PowerCenter 9.5 editions, options and connectivity from Informatica and the partner ecosystem to increase the efficiency, agility and productivity for many different data integration projects. Learn how these new capabilities...

• Shrink the time to deliver new data or reports from months to days
• Improve productivity in development and operations with self-service, proactive monitoring, data virtualization, and data validation
• Cost-effectively increase performance and scalability, and expand support for appliances and Hadoop
• Add data integration for web, log, social, and machine data, natural language processing and hierarchical data transformation
• Enable governance of cloud deployments as a shared service with on premise data integration by corporate IT
• Enhance metadata management and data quality capabilities for data governance.

Birds-of-a-Feather Discussion Groups

These popular discussion forums are an opportunity to network with other users to learn how they are utilizing Informatica products and solutions. The round tables are informal user-led discussions with no formal Informatica presentation or lecture...

• Administrator Tips and Tricks
• Architect and Project Management Tips and Tricks
• Developer Tips and Tricks
• Performance and Tuning
• Versioning, Team Based Development, Migrations.

Using Informatica PowerExchange Real Time CDC for Data Synchronization

Sometimes data replication isn't just about making an identical copy of one database to another. Sometimes those databases are separate applications with different schemas and data types requiring the use of PowerCenter with Real Time CDC. How do you enable Bi Directional Synchronization between sources using Informatica? In this session, INTRICITY will highlight the methods used to deliver on this solution.

How to Lay the Foundation for Agile and Operational Business Intelligence (BI) with Informatica

Nowadays, business users are not just demanding fast and direct access to new critical information and reports, but also requiring that it is up-to-date, accurate and exactly what was needed. However, there are some serious challenges that need to be addressed, such as accelerating delivery of data and reports, getting the analyst involved early and often in the process, ensuring rapid data profiling and real-time data cleansing, and enabling data access without impacting operational systems. In this session you will...

• Hear how to use Data Replication to provide non-intrusive access to current data in operational systems
• Hear how to use Data Virtualization to deliver new data and reports that the business needs and trusts
• Learn how to develop an architecture that can support your enterprise's agile and operational BI needs
• Hear how customers are laying the foundation for agile and operational BI with Informatica.