Data Virtualization & Data Services Corner

Data virtualization can accelerate delivery of data by 5 times, at 1/3rd the cost. The business can work iteratively with IT to create and validate rules and directly access the data it needs and trusts, in real-time. With this agile data integration approach, that hides and handle complexity, companies can grow sales, reduce risk, save time, simplify infrastructure and optimize the use of resources, across projects.

Informatica has teamed up with business and IT leaders across industries to provide you with the latest, most innovative information on data virtualization. See below for roundtable discussions (live and replays), blogs, articles, white papers and more with information to better architect your solution using data virtualization and data services to drive significant business value across various projects, such as BI, MDM and SOA.

Coming this Fall

2012 Data Virtualization Experts Forum

Build a Better, More Agile Data Integration Foundation with Advanced Data Virtualization

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Time: 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 17:00 BST / 18:00 CEST
Duration: 2 hours

Learn everything you need to know about agile data integration using advanced data virtualization—without leaving your desk. The 2nd annual Data Virtualization Experts Forum features Rick van der Lans, demos, and customer and implementer panels.
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Become an Expert in Agile Data Integration for BI this Fall

This on-demand, lecture series featuring Rick van der Lans, shows you how to transform your data architecture to increase agility and productivity.
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2012 Roundtable Series Replays

Why Agile BI, Why Now and How Data Virtualization Can Help Boris Evelson from Forrester Research and George Yuhasz from HealthNow NY join David Lyle to discuss the driving forces for agile BI, the challenges businesses are facing to enable BI agility and how agile data integration approaches like data virtualization help. Listen to the Replay

Doing Data Virtualization Right to Enable BI Agility
Wayne Eckerson and Rob Myers from HealthNow NY join David Lyle to discuss the role of data virtualization for enabling BI agility, key capabilities of data virtualization and what the ideal agile data architecture looks like.
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Complement Data Warehousing with Data Virtualization for BI Agility
Philip Russom from TDWI and Grant Parsamyan, Director of BI & Data Warehousing at eHarmony.com join David Lyle to discuss the need for both data warehousing and data virtualization to accelerate the delivery of new data and reports at lower cost.
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Looking Under the Hood - Data Virtualization Architecture for BI Projects
Rick van der Lans from R20/Consultancy and Dr. Ken E. Atilgan from Volkswagen join David Lyle to discuss the right architecture for an agile business intelligence system and how it can benefit from data virtualization.
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Data Virtualization Must Support Lean Principles & Ensure Reuse for BI Agility
Mark Smith from Ventana Research and Jared Hillam from Intricity join David Lyle to discuss how to cut the wait and waste throughout the data integration process with data virtualization’s built-on lean integration principles to enable BI agility.
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Achieve BI Nirvana with Self-Service and Data Virtualization
Shawn Rogers and Sean Hickey, Manager of Integration Architecture at T-Mobile, join David Lyle to discuss the importance of self-service to enable agility in BI projects, best practices for involving the Analyst early and often, and how data virtualization best supports those efforts.
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2011 Webinar Series Replays

Enabling IT Modernization and Business Intelligence (BI) Agility with Data Virtualization Kevin Brady from Bonneville Power and David Lyle discuss how to leverage an agile data architecture and apply agile data integration best practices. Listen to the Replay

Delivering Business Benefit and ROI with Data Virtualization for More Agile BI
Sampath Chaparala from Pfizer joins Informatica’s David Lyle to discuss how to architect, pilot and prove a Data Virtualization solution that delivers rapid ROI and business value.
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Data Virtualization Expert's Forum 2011
David Lyle hosts this power-packed & interactive event discussing practical usage scenarios for architecture, best practices and business value of this
agile data integration approach. Guests from Forrester Research, Blue Mountain Labs, R20 Consulting, J & J, HealthNow NY, Bonneville Power, Saama Technologies and Evaxyx.
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Data Virtualization: How it Works & Why it's Critical
Robert Myers from HealthNow NY and David Lyle discuss the top seven best practices for data virtualization during a live demo of Informatica’s data virtualization solution.
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Data Virtualization Architecture & Best Practices for Agile Business Intelligence
George Yuhasz from HealthNow NY and David Lyle discuss how IT organizations are leveraging agile data integration architecture and best practices to accelerate the access, analysis, integration and delivery of data for operational BI.
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Data Virtualization Architecture & Best Practices for Agile Data Integration
John Maslanksi from Merck and David Lyle explore how a data virtualization architecture, based on lean integration principles, can enable agile DI.
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Data Virtualization Architecture & Best Practices for SOA & Application Integration
David Linthicum and David Lyle discuss architecture and best practices for delivering a data virtualization layer to abstract from underlying changes, deal with the proliferation of silos and increase reuse of data services across projects.
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Data Virtualization Architecture & Best Practices for Agile BI, MDM & SOA
Rob Myers from HealthNow NY and David Lyle discuss how data virtualization not only accelerates BI projects, it supports an MDM strategy and fills the data integration gap in SOA.
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Leveraging MDM and Data Virtualization for Complete View of the Business
Chris Blotto of Knowledgent Grou, and David Lyle discuss architectural best practices to deliver a complete view of master, transaction, interaction and historic data through successful MDM with a data virtualization strategy.
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Data Virtualization Architecture & Best Practices with Bonneville Power
Kevin Brady from Bonneville Power and David Lyle discuss how data virtualization provides a single, logical data access layer that abstracts all data
sources in the backend and simplifies the way data consumers interact with the underlying data.
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Next-Gen Data Virtualization Architecture & Best Practices with HealthNow NY
Hear HealthNow NY and Informatica discuss how next-gen data virtualization lets business own the data while IT retains control, eliminating the
limitations & complexity of traditional data federation thru direct access to trusted data on remote systems.
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White Papers / Analyst Reports

The Forrester Wave™: Data Virtualization, Q1 2012 According to Forrester Research, Inc., “Informatica delivers a strong broad offering coupled with strong organization commitment.” View Now

Next-Generation Data Virtualization
David Linthicum discusses how the next-generation data virtualization architecture and best practices delivers fast and direct access, more reuse, and better agility and data governance for BI, MDM, and SOA.
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Developing a Data Delivery Platform
Rick van der Lans explains how a modern architecture for developing business intelligence systems where data consumers, such as reporting and
analytical tools, are decoupled from data stores.
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Chalk Talks & Demos

Adaptive Data Services Demo See how the latest release of the Informatica Platform, Informatica 9.1 delivers relevant data adapted to the business needs of all projects. View Now

Next-Gen Data Virtualization Chalk Talk Series: The Foundation for Agile BI
Learn how Informatica’s data virtualization overcomes limitations of data federation to deliver data the business needs for operational reporting, up-to
5 times faster and at 1/3rd the cost.
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Editorial

Articles

Going Beyond Looking Under the Hood – Doing Data Virtualization Right Virtualization Journal article by Ash Parikh on the misconception in the industry that some are trying to perpetuate - data federation being passed off as data virtualization. View Now

How Data Virtualization Addresses Data Integration Issues
TDWI interview with Ash Parikh, Director of Product Marketing for Data Services at Informatica, discussing why optimizing data integration is key to successful business intelligence.
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HealthNow picks Informatica data virtualization over IBM and Composite
A SearchDataManagement.com article where Mark Brunelli discusses why HealthNow chose Informatica over IBM and Composite Software
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Blogs

Addressing Data Integration Challenges with Data Virtualization Blog Series by David Loshin Pt 1 - Fundamental Challenges in Data Reusability and Repurposing Pt 2 - Simplistic Approaches to Data Federation Solve (Only) Part of the Puzzle – We Need Data Virtualization Pt 3 - Key Characteristics of a Data Virtualization Solution

Rethinking Data Virtualization
David Linthicum talks about the benefits of data virtualization.
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More On The Value Of SOA Data Services
David Linthicum explains how data services allows IT to finally get a handle on data in the shortest amount of time.
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Videos

Data Virtualization - Informatica Combine and access diverse data instantly. It's a snap with Informatica Data Virtualization. View Now

Informatica's Data Virtualization Solution Helps HealthNow Accelerate Delivery of New Data
Hear why HealthNow picked Informatica for its data virtualization solution over IBM and Composite
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