events

Upcoming Web Seminars

Architectural Foundation for Pervasive Business Intelligence 
This web seminar will feature two of the industry’s most visionary CTOs – Stephen Brobst of Teradata and James Markarian of Informatica - discuss best practices and technical approaches for Active Data Warehousing and Real-time Data Integration to enable operational decision making.
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Corporate Banking Integration Best Practices: Strategies for Growing with your Customers 
Attend this webinar and hear from Susan Feinberg, Research Director, Wholesale Banking at TowerGroup, on her latest research on cash management customer integration and corporate banking integration best practices.
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Manage Information Risk through Data Quality Control
Key decisions with medium to high risk should be made only if the underlying data is certified against acceptable thresholds measured against data quality dimensions. Join David Loshin as he discusses how data quality Metrics, Scorecards and Key Performance Indicators are key to the successful management of risk.
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Data Governance Strategies:Helping Your Organization Comply, Integrate, and Transform

From this webinar, attendees will learn:

  • How data governance affects data-driven business initiatives, like compliance, business intelligence, business transformation, and mergers and acquisitions.
  • How data governance intersects with almost all data management practices, including data quality, integration, administration, architecture, and warehousing.
  • Organizational best practices for data governance committees and boards.
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    Creating a Competitive Edge with a Data Integration OEM Strategy
    Join us for a web seminar featuring Tony Baer, Principal Analyst, onStrategies for a discussion on best practices and approaches for ISVs to rapidly build their value proposition, acclerate their time to market, and protect their competitive edge by leveraging data integration.
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    Data Migrations: Big Bang or Big Trouble?
    In many application projects, the importance of properly migrating data is underemphasized. Project teams often rely on manual and inconsistent tools and practices when migrating data, which can put the overall application project at significant risk. Join Nucleus Research and Informatica to learn how you can keep your project on time and on budget by using the right data migration tools and methodology.
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    Complex Data: A New Challenge for Data Integration

    Join TDWI and Informatica to learn:

    • The definition of complex data and its value proposition for both data integration and data exchange.
    • Technologies and best practices for integrating complex data.
    • Special practices for complex data, like data quality and exception handling.
    • Use cases and common applications for integrating complex data.
    • Business benefits of integrating complex data.

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    Replays

    The following Web seminars have been previously recorded and are provided for your reference. Listen from anywhere, anytime!

  • Complex Data Exchange
  • Data Governance
  • Data Integration
  • Data Migration
  • Data Quality
  • Enterprise Data Warehousing
  • Integration Compentency Center (ICC)
  • Master Data Management
  • On Demand Data Integration
  • SOA
  • Complex Data Exchange

    The Secrets of Flexible Data Exchange - How to build an agile B2B data exchange
    Listen to this webinar replay and learn how to create an agile data exchange, integrate any data consistently, build an extendable data integration platform and spend less time on custom data integration.

    How ACORD Can Be Used As a Best Practice For Data Integration
    Register for this web seminar featuring Insurance Industry Thought Leader, Tana Sabatino, who will outline strategies for benefiting from ACORD's data models alongside internal and external influencing factors. Our speaker will describe targeted approaches to using ACORD standards for accomplishing data normalization.

    Universal Access and Data Exchange
    Informatica recently announced its acquisition of Itemfield, an innovative company with unique data transformation technology that enables complex data exchange and access to unstructured and semi-structured data. In this Webcast, we discuss the strategic rationale for this acquisition, what makes Itemfield technology unique, and the products that will be offered to support enterprise data integration and beyond.

     

    Data Governance

    Data Governance and Management Web Seminar Series
    Now, more than ever, organizations face a higher bar in achieving business performance goals and demonstrating adherence to regulatory compliance. There is a heightened awareness of a need for a more focused and disciplined approach to manage data with increased automation. These two one-hour Web seminars are designed to assist you in the development and implementation of your Data Governance and Management strategies.

    Putting Metadata Management to Work for Data Governance
    Download this web seminar replay with Ventana Research, Decodata and Informatica to learn from real use cases how customers are using metadata management to synchronize multiple digital assets, validate data lineage, accelerate impact assessment, and achieve data stewardship for governance, business agility and IT productivity gains.

     

    Data Integration

    Critical Success Factors in Deploying Pervasive BI
    Download this web seminar replay featuring the Chief Technology Officers of MicroStrategy and Informatica as they discuss best practices and approaches for pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Integration (DI) for operational excellence.

    Financial Data Management Expert Series
    Informatica recently hosted a Web seminar series on financial data management tapping two thought leaders—BearingPoint and Deloitte Consulting. You will gain insights and best practices around governance, process, people, technology, and standards for master data management and customer data integration solutions, all requisites for maximizing corporate performance.

    Deriving Maximum Value from your Salesforce.com CRM data through Data Integration
    Download this web seminar and learn how Brocade Communication Systems integrated Salesforce data with key on-premise operational and analytic systems using data services delivered through Informatica PowerCenter.

    Nationwide Insurance Unifies Financial Systems for Increased Agility and Data Confidence with Master Data Driven Data Integration
    Download this web seminar replay to find out how working with Informatica data integration solutions and a leading systems integrator, Deloitte Consulting, Nationwide Insurance has been able to transform its business with timely, reliable and accurate information.

     

    Data Migration

    Avoiding Data Conversion Disasters: A Sane Approach to Data Migrations
    Join John Morris, a leading data migration consultant and author of Practical Data Migration for this web seminar focused on ensuring data migration success. The web seminar will address the limitations of traditional approaches to migration, and how a shift in emphasis towards analysis and design is key to taking the risk out of your projects.

    Accelerate Time-to-Value of SAP Data Migration Initiatives
    On this web seminar replay, hear how Informatica has helped many organizations successfully complete their data migration projects under budget and with greater accuracy. Hear presentations by SAP, Informatica, and a customer overview by CEMEX, who realized millions of dollars of ROI in developer productivity and improved business agility with a unified, global SAP data infrastructure.

    Accelerate Your Salesforce.com CRM Migration through Data Integration
    This webinar replay will discuss how Affymetrix has integrated Salesforce data with key on-premise operational and analytic systems using data services delivered through Informatica PowerCenter.

    Don’t live the Data Migration Nightmare: Learn the facts before you start your next SAP project
    The traditional approaches to data migration usually result in projects going over budget, time or both. Gain valuable insight on how a shift in emphasis towards analysis and design is key to taking the risk out of your SAP projects.

    Leveraging Informatica’s Data Integration Platform to Address SAP Data Migration Challenges
    Download this web seminar replay to find out the challenges of migrating data and how you can ensure successful data migration.

    Modernize Your Enterprise: Take Advantage of the Latest Technology Innovations for Increased Business Agility
    Listen to this web seminar with EDS and Oracle to find out how you can support the increasing demands of your business, preserve IT investments and modernize your enterprise by moving from legacy systems to an Oracle platform.

    Get Value from Your ERP Consolidation Projects Thru Data Integration
    Download this web seminar replay with AMR Research, to find out how to derive the business benefits of ERP Consolidation. Studies by AMR Research indicate the benefits derived from ERP consolidation are $20 million for every billion dollars of Company revenue.

    Only 1 in 6 Migration projects will succeed: Get the facts before you start your next Applications initiative.
    Join Bloor Research and Informatica for an informative webinar on the current state of data migration as well as 'where' and 'why' failures occur. Bloor Research has conducted a seminal study on the subject of data migration and will present key statistics, findings, and conclusions.

     

    Data Quality

    An Eye-opener for Your Business: How Data Profiling Can Build Support for Data Quality within Data Management Projects
    This web seminar features business intelligence thought leader, Dr. Claudia Imhoff, who explores the challenges in garnering support for data quality within a project scope and how profiling your data can be the best way to build a successful business case, delivering more value to business operations.

    TDWI and Informatica Present: Data Quality Management - Assessing Business Impacts and Data Quality Requirements
    Please join David Loshin, President, Knowledge Integrity, Inc, to learn about the methods and techniques employed to asses business and data quality requirements and the tools and techniques for ensuring the validity, completeness, and consistency of data in order to enable the organization to achieve its business objectives.

    The Architecture of Data Quality Replay with Ralph Kimball
    Dr. Kimball will describe an important breakthrough in measuring, controlling, and improving data quality in the EDW. He will introduce two new back-room processes that allow large enterprises to see a comprehensive picture of their data quality and drive toward classic “six-sigma” data quality control.

    Use Compliance and Risk Insight to Improve Corporate Performance
    Immediate web seminar recording available: Data Quality author and expert David Loshin on how to manage compliance and risk through data quality management.

    Building a Data Quality ROI Framework
    Listen to this Webinar featuring David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity, Inc., and Informatica to learn how to quantify business impacts and solution costs to build a Data Quality ROI business case.

    Data Quality: Ingredients for Success and Mistakes to Avoid
    Register now to view this web seminar replay featuring David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity, Inc., and Informatica. on the ingredients of success for maximizing the integrity and value of your data, as well as the mistakes to avoid when undertaking data quality initiatives.

    Manage Information Risk through Data Quality Control: You Can’t Control What You Can't Measure!
    Join David Loshin, President, Knowledge Integrity, Inc. and learn how to design a framework of data quality metrics to reduce business risk. He will also discuss how to link the data quality metrics to organizations strategic performance indicators that support business imperatives such as improved decision making and compliance

    Take Control of Data Quality for Your Supply Chain
    Web Seminar Replay of information quality expert Larry English discussing the compelling case for Data Quality within the Supply Chain and Master Data Management.

     

    Enterprise Data Warehousing

    Integration Competency Centers for successful Enterprise Data Warehousing
    In this webinar, you will learn how Integration Competency Centers (ICCs) can help companies reduce costs and risks for managing enterprise data warehousing projects. Join two of Informatica's ICC experts discuss the business requirements for building an effective ICC for your organization.

    EDW/BI Lifecycle: From Business Requirements to Business Results
    The true mission of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) is to publish the data of the enterprise in an effective way so that end users can make decisions. Join us for this comprehensive webinar as Dr. Kimball describes this "EDW/BI Lifecycle" and shows a checklist of all the key phases an EDW/BI team must prepare for to support decisions effectively.

    Transform Your DW to EDW - 10 Areas to Examine before You Leap
    Integration has become the dominant theme in the design of the enterprise data warehouse (EDW).  Listen to this webinar replay with Dr. Ralph Kimball as he decomposes the formidable challenge of designing a fully integrated EDW into ten actionable criteria, including dealing with “frozen” OLTP systems, incompatible business rules, conflicting security and privacy issues, and international currencies, time zones, and physical addresses.

    Data Stewardship and Governance of the Enterprise Data Warehouse with Dr. Ralph Kimball
    In this webinar replay Dr. Kimball will describe the main responsibilities of data governance including: master data, metadata, transaction data, data warehouse data, unstructured data, externally acquired data, security data, compliance data, and all the procedures and transforms that protect, manipulate, and present the data.

    HP and Informatica  Enterprise Data Integration & Operational Business Intelligence Web Seminar
    HP and Informatica will demonstrate our joint track record of success in enterprise data integration initiatives and provide a foundation for you to increase ROI by maximizing your business intelligence capabilities.

    Real Time Operational Enterprise Data Warehouses Webinar Replay
    In this webinar replay Dr. Kimball describes significant architectural changes and unique business rules provoked by the real time requirement that affect all the phases of extract, transform, load, and final BI delivery. He will propose an exact definition of “real time” systems, and will describe how a true zero latency system could be built.

    The New Era of EDW: Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) Evolves
    Jill Dyché and Evan Levy from Baseline Consulting discuss an updated approach to Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW).

    Developing a Data Warehouse Strategy Webinar with Jonathan Geiger, Senior Vice President, Intelligent Solutions
    We all know that a data warehouse should be approached as a program, but how do we establish the strategy for that program? This session describes the key components of a data warehouse strategy and how to develop them. Further, recognizing that executive sponsorship is a critical success factor, the session describes the role and operation of an effective steering committee.

    From Managing Data to Driving Strategy: A New Look at Enterprise Data Management (EDM)
    In this Web Seminar Replay, a panel of capital markets and data management experts from Capgemini and Informatica will discuss how to put a disciplined approach to Enterprise Data Management to work for identifying trading signals, creating new products, and taking new trading strategies to market.

    Activate Your Enterprise through Enterprise-Wide Data Management and Warehousing
    Featuring CTOs from Teradata and Informatica!
    Don't miss this rare opportunity - download the web seminar to get insights directly from the world-class experts in enterprise data management and warehousing.

    Building the Enterprise Data Warehouse Webinar
    Integrating the far flung data assets of the enterprise has emerged as the #1 challenge of building an EDW. Register now to join Dr. Kimball as he shows where to apply business judgment, technology, and careful management in the right proportions to effectively integrate the enterprise.

    Designing Your Data Warehouse from the Lifecycle Perspective
    The data warehouse is a process, not a project! Even though gathering business requirements is a classic start of a data warehouse, this foundation must be refined and renewed continuously. A good set of business requirements then lets us proceed down three parallel tracks as we build the data warehouse over and over again: the architecture, data, and applications tracks. In this webinar, Dr. Kimball will show how when you are armed with a “lifecycle” perspective, together with a set of powerful design techniques known as dimensional modeling, you can guide a successful data warehouse process.

     

    Integration Compentency Center (ICC)

    Integration Competency Centers for successful Enterprise Data Warehousing
    In this webinar, you will learn how Integration Competency Centers (ICCs) can help companies reduce costs and risks for managing enterprise data warehousing projects. Join two of Informatica's ICC experts discuss the business requirements for building an effective ICC for your organization.

    Introduction to Integration Competency Center Web Seminar Series
    Replay the first webinar in this series to learn the advantages of Integration Competency Centers.  During this informative event, you will learn how enterprises implementing ICCs are seizing the integration advantage by reducing their overall IT infrastructure and maintenance costs and responding quicker to the business. We will share, through a real world customer case study, how ICCs deliver significant ROI by dramatically speeding deployment, increasing effectiveness, and reducing costs across all enterprise data integration projects.

    Starting an Integration Competency Center - 2nd in the series
    Learn about proven, real-world best practices for organizing Integration Competency Centers (ICCs), and hear case studies about how leading enterprises are implementing ICCs to dramatically speed deployment of multiple data integration initiatives, increase responsiveness, and reduce costs.

    ICC Roles and Responsibilities: 3rd in the series
    David Lyle will highlight practical approaches for organizing and staffing an ICC. Organizational design and management are key issues in implementing ICCs, which provide a consistent and highly effective approach for strategically tackling multiple data integration initiatives.

    ICC Processes & Technologies: 4th in the series
    Replay this web seminar and learn about best practice processes and proven technologies for supporting Integration Competency Centers (ICCs), and hear real-world case studies about how enterprises are implementing ICCs to dramatically speed deployment of enterprise-wide data integration initiatives.

    ICC Review and Future Direction: 5th in the series
    Replay this web seminar to hear from forward thinking IT executives David Lyle and John Schmidt and learn about the advanced concepts in Integration, ICC best practices, and industry trends.

    Integration Competency Centers in Financial Services: A Lehman Brothers Case Study
    Industry experts from Informatica and Lehman Brothers will discuss how an ICC can help accelerate integration projects by up to 90 percent.

     

    Master Data Management

    Master Data Management and Master Data Integration: An Introduction with David Loshin
    The more we share information, the more we realize that years of distribution of computing power and business applications into vertical lines of business has led to “islands of information coherence." Master data management introduces new techniques for consolidating, integrating, and governing the shared enterprise information asset. Download this webinar replay with David Loshin to learn more.

    Data Integration Solutions for Master Data Management
    Join Wipro and Informatica on this web seminar replay to learn: The components of a master data management system -How Informatica PowerCenter 8 can be leveraged across the enterprise to provide the master data infrastructure for your MDM initiative -Best practices in implementing an MDM platform to maximize ROI.

     

    On Demand Data Integration

    Informatica On Demand Data Replication - Demo & Customer Testimonial
    Join us for a demo of the Informatica On Demand Data Replication service. See first hand how Informatica’s No Software and No Hardware approach securely replicates salesforce.com data to local databases, files – and now Google Spreadsheets!

     

    SOA

    Data Services - Maximizing Business Value through Right-Time Information - A Scalable and Flexible Platform for Delivering Holistic, Accurate, Secure and Timely Data to your Infrastructure
    With continuous change increasingly driving businesses to become more agile, time is money and having access to critical business information at the right time is key to maintaining competitive advantage. In this session we will discuss the data services platform, a flexible technology that enables the scalable access, integration and right-time delivery of business critical information throughout the enterprise and beyond corporate firewalls. Data services maximize the business value of right-time information for driving competitive advantage, lowered risk and cost-effective project implementations.

    Maximize the Use of Your Enterprise Data with SOA-based Data Integration
    Download this web seminar replay featuring AMR Research to learn how a Service Oriented Architecture provides organizations with the best solution for Enterprise Data Integration.