“The Informatica platform has always been pivotal to our strategies,” said Arun Varadarajan, assistant VP and business leader, Enterprise Information Management, at Cognizant Technology Solutions. Varadarajan joined theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, during Informatica World 2015. Clients are moving beyond transactional data to actual interaction and engagement data, according to Varadarajan. “Once S.M.A.C. (or social, mobile, analytics and Cloud) data methodology ...

Progressing into the “total customer experience,” one of EMC’s key initiatives is the “Business Data Lake.” The idea is to have data scientists pull from a single, organized source as opposed to various chaotic sources. Having multiple data warehouses, for instance, allows for “ponds,” which are small arms of data stored aside from the parent data, according to Barbara Latulippe, ...

The current data management industry is being disrupted as a result of governance and compliance, according to Rob Karel, VP of Product Strategy at Informatica Corp. “Both bureaucracy and agility play a significant role when it comes to targeting contextual value within the customer’s data,” Karel told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, during Informatica World 2015. ...

With the massive amounts of data that organizations must find, process, analyze and act on, new technologies continue to evolve to assist in this process. Alation, Inc.’s enterprise data accessibility platform is one such solution, which allows businesses to use the right data for better, faster business decisions. Stephanie McReynolds, VP of marketing at Alation, talked with John Furrier and Dave Vellante ...

Big Data tools and software continue to find use in all types of enterprises. And it’s now being used to assist farm conservation decisions. “We built a system that satisfies the needs of our network,” said Eric Fegraus, senior director of Information Systems, TEAM Network, Conservation International. “And not only have we done that, but ...