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  Informatica adds developer edition to cloud data-integration platform

  Informatica has added a new developer edition to its cloud-based data-integration platform in a bid to further expand a partner ecosystem around the service, the company announced Monday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 May, 2012 02:15

  Tags: application development, cloud computing, data integration, informatica, internet, Internet-based applications and services, middleware, software

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  Get Hadoop certified ... fast

  IT professionals are scrambling to get trained and certified in what's expected to be the hottest new high-tech skill for 2012: Hadoop.

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 07 March, 2012 00:27

  Tags: application development, applications, Big Data, careers, cloudera, Configuration / maintenance, data base, Data Center, data management, ebay, Facebook, hadoop, hardware systems, IBM, informatica, infrastructure management, it management, LinkedIn, management, networking, programming, software, Yahoo

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  Informatica, MapR team for Hadoop streaming

  Apache Hadoop users will soon be able to analyze data as it is streamed from its source, thanks to a partnership between data-warehouse software provider Informatica and Hadoop distributor MapR.

  By Joab Jackson | 05 March, 2012 20:00

  Tags: applications, databases, data mining, data warehousing, informatica, MapR, software

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  Informatica rolls out data parser for Hadoop

  Informatica has strengthened its hand in the burgeoning market for Hadoop, the open-source programming framework for large-scale data processing, unveiling a new data parser on Wednesday that can transform piles of unstructured information into a more structured form for use in running Hadoop jobs.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 03 November, 2011 07:09

  Tags: applications, business intelligence, data integration, data management, data mining, data warehousing, HortonWorks, informatica, MarkLogic, middleware, software, sybase

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  Progress Software CEO Reidy to step down

  Progress Software CEO Richard Reidy is leaving the company once his successor is found, the middleware vendor said Monday. Reidy is stepping down under mutual agreement with the company's board, according to a statement.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 August, 2011 23:33

  Tags: business issues, informatica, middleware, Progress Software, Richard Reidy, software, tibco

• Informatica, customer in legal fray over license audit

  Data-integration vendor Informatica and a customer are embroiled in a legal dispute over US$6.3 million in license fees that Informatica says it is owed due to noncompliance.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 July, 2011 05:27

  Tags: informatica, Hospital Corporation of America, legal, Civil lawsuits, software, middleware, data integration

• Informatica adds support for 'big data,' Hadoop

  Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or "big data" processing, the company announced Monday.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 06 June, 2011 14:06

  Tags: informatica, Apache Software Foundation, software, applications, data warehousing, business intelligence, open source, middleware, data integration

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  NetSuite, Informatica team up on two-tier ERP

  NetSuite and Informatica announced a partnership on Tuesday that seeks to exploit the concept of "two-tier ERP" (enterprise resource planning) deployments.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 01 March, 2011 19:09

  Tags: applications, business issues, cloud computing, data integration, data management, enterprise resource planning, informatica, internet, middleware, netsuite, oracle, sap, software applications

• Wall Street Beat: IT spending forecast to rise in 2011

  Despite ongoing worries about the strength of the U.S. recovery, sovereign debt in Europe and inflation in various parts of the world, global IT spending is due to increase this year, according to Forrester Research and Gartner.

  By Marc Ferranti | 08 January, 2011 10:26

  Tags: business issues, financial results, Forrester Research, Gartner, hardware systems, informatica, Pega Systems, software, tibco

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  Informatica debuts pay-as-you-go data integration service

  Hoping to pique the interest of the cloud-curious enterprise, data-integration software provider Informatica has unveiled a low-cost, cloud-based data integration service, called Informatica Cloud Express.

  By Joab Jackson | 08 December, 2010 08:59

  Tags: cloud computing, data integration, Enterprise application integration, informatica, internet, managed services, middleware, salesforce.com, software

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  Salesforce.com unveils Database.com

  Salesforce.com is getting into the cloud database business with a new on-demand service, Database.com, set to be announced Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 08 December, 2010 06:05

  Tags: application development, applications, cloud computing, collaboration, Database.com, Development tools, informatica, internet, oracle, Progress Software, SaaS, salesforce.com, software

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  Social networking can make or break a brand

  The power and pervasiveness of social networks has been further thrust into the public consciousness in recent weeks with the huge critical and commercial success of the film ‘The Social Network’, which chronicles the turbulent rise of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, from awkward student to internet billionaire.

  By Stuart Finlayson | 09 November, 2010 10:40

  Tags: business, informatica, management, project management, social networking, social networks, Sohaib Abbasi

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  Informatica teams with Cloudera to ease Hadoop use

  Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera's Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monday.

  By Joab Jackson | 02 November, 2010 03:38

  Tags: business intelligence, cloudera, customer relationship management, data management, data mining, data warehousing, hadoop, informatica, open source, software

• Will Oracle buy Informatica next?

  Ever-acquisitive Oracle may place data integration specialist Informatica in its sights next, according to a recent pair of surveys.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 11 September, 2010 05:59

  Tags: business issues, cloud computing, data integration, informatica, internet, Internet-based applications and services, Mergers / acquisitions, middleware, oracle, software

• IBM buying MDM vendor Initiate Systems

  IBM announced Wednesday that it plans to buy MDM (master data management) vendor Initiate Systems. Terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close in the first quarter, were not disclosed.

  By Chris Kanaracus | 04 February, 2010 06:21

  Tags: IBM, informatica, Initiate Systems, MDM Technology, mergers and acquisitions, sap