A speedy investment
In recent years venture capital firm have generally shunned enterprise software companies, so it was interesting to see start-up expressor (no, this is not a typo) doing a USD 10 million round this...
View ArticleSOA and how to run a conference
I am currently at the SAP Teched conference in Berlin. I will write in a separate publication about the forthcoming version 7.1 of SAP MDM, but have a couple of quite separate observations to mention...
View ArticleInformatica goes shopping
Informatica has made an offer to buy Germany PIM vendor Heiler – the deal has not gone through yet and the German securities laws are complex, but it appears to be a “friendly” takeover. There are a...
View ArticleInformatica’s MDM strategy
I recently spent a couple of days with the management of Informatica at the Rosewood Hotel in Palo Alto. The company sees a lot of potential in the notionally rather mature area of data integration,...
View ArticleKalido changes hands
Yesterday Kalido, the data warehouse and MDM company, changed owners. Rather than an acquisition by a software company, the buyer was an investment company called Silverback, a Texas company backed by...
View ArticleSAS Update
At a conference in Lausanne in June 2014 SAS shared their current business performance and strategy. The privately held company (with just two individual shareholders) had revenues of just over $3...
View ArticleThe Teradata Universe
The Teradata Universe conference in Amsterdam in April 2015 was particularly popular, with a record 1,200 attendees this year. Teradata always scores unusually high in our customer satisfaction...
View ArticleLeaving Las Vegas
The Informatica World 2015 event in Las Vegas was held as the company was in the process of being taken off the stock market and into private ownership by private equity firm Permira and a Canadian...
View ArticleInformatica V10 emerges
Informatica just announced their Big Data Management solution V10, the latest update to their flagship suite of technology. The key objective for this is to enable customers to design data...
View ArticlePsst – Wanna buy a Data Quality Vendor?
Founded in 1993, Trillium Software has been the largest independent data quality vendor for some years, nestling since the late 1990s as a subsidiary of US marketing services company Harte Hanks. The...
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