Not everyone in the software industry is suffering. Informatica Q2 revenues were $117.3 million, up 3% year over year, and license revenues for the second quarter were $48.7 million, relatively flat. That makes 19 quarters in a row – very impressive. Informatica added 65 customers in the quarter and now claims nearly 3800, with wins inContinue reading “Informatica, Strong Through Tough Times, Looks Ahead”
Tag Archives: Data Integration
Talend Uses Open Source and Community to Transform Data Integration
Talend, a California-based open source data integration vendor with a development center in China, first shipped product in late 2006, and two and a half years later has established a strong, growing business as more and more firms attempt to build a relatively complete stack of open source data management software. With a recent $12M roundContinue reading “Talend Uses Open Source and Community to Transform Data Integration”
Marge Breya: NetWeaver + BI Forms a New Layer
In the final excerpt from our interview with Marge Breya, we discuss the role of NetWeaver in SAP’s product strategy. Breya, Executive Vice President & GM Intelligence Platform & NetWeaver of SAP BusinessObjects, oversees full product line responsibility for BI and information management solutions, as well as the company’s OnDemand business. In addition, Breya isContinue reading “Marge Breya: NetWeaver + BI Forms a New Layer”
DB2 Runs PL/SQL. Say WHAT?
Today IBM announced new features, products, and solution packages in its DB2 9.7 (Cobra ) release. And a new version of InfoSphere, including Informix and z versions. I’ll post about those later, but here I’d like to just highlight a buried item that got little play: DB2 can now run PL/SQL. Natively. In the engine.
Expressor Software Hits the Complex Data Integration Market Running
In April, Expressor Software visited the Boulder BI Braintrust (BBBT) and spent a few hours taking us through their story. Positioning themselves as a provider of high performance semantic data integration software, Expressor shipped their first commercial release in May of 2008 and are targeting Global 2000 and government entities in the US and EMEA.Continue reading “Expressor Software Hits the Complex Data Integration Market Running”
IBM’s Optim Will Deliver Data Management Improvements in 2009
When IBM completed its acquisition of Princeton Softech in September 2007, the picture seemed bright for such relatively niche applications as test data management, data growth management and archiving. Optim filled some gaps in IBM’s portfolio and promised to grow share of wallet in the IBM customer base. But there were awkward overlaps with productsContinue reading “IBM’s Optim Will Deliver Data Management Improvements in 2009”