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	<title>Informatica Perspectives » Professional Services</title>
	
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		<title>Convergence: Customer Success aligns Sales, Marketing and Enablement</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/03/23/convergence-customer-success-aligns-sales-marketing-and-enablement/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=convergence-customer-success-aligns-sales-marketing-and-enablement</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Boorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we had the privilege of participating in two significant conferences taking place in San Francisco.  I was on a CMO panel at the B2B Digital Edge Live conference (#DELiveSF), while my colleague Daniel West presented at the Forrester &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/03/23/convergence-customer-success-aligns-sales-marketing-and-enablement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Data Integration and Business Intelligence Practices</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/03/02/agile-data-integration-and-business-intelligence-practices/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=agile-data-integration-and-business-intelligence-practices</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business/IT Collaboration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=9014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Exploring Agile Data Integration and Business Intelligence practices and contrast leading practices and technologies.  <br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/03/02/agile-data-integration-and-business-intelligence-practices/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making Collaborative Learning Sustainable and Creating Best Practices</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/23/making-collaborative-learning-sustainable-and-creating-best-practices/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=making-collaborative-learning-sustainable-and-creating-best-practices</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/23/making-collaborative-learning-sustainable-and-creating-best-practices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business/IT Collaboration]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=8984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about the role of collaborative learning in achieving a transformation to Lean Value Streams. To make it more challenging and take it to the next level, let’s assume that all the people involved in the learning &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/23/making-collaborative-learning-sustainable-and-creating-best-practices/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>People, Processes and Technology – Don’t Forget the TECHNOLOGY!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/14/people-processes-and-technology-dont-forget-the-technology-healthcare/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=people-processes-and-technology-dont-forget-the-technology-healthcare</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/14/people-processes-and-technology-dont-forget-the-technology-healthcare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Cramer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data masking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healthcare]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[billing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data breach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=8901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a routine matter of delivering care, billing for services and operating their hospitals and physician practices, healthcare providers deal with patient’s protected health information all day, every day. Dealing with the data becomes routine and it’s easy for sometimes &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/14/people-processes-and-technology-dont-forget-the-technology-healthcare/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Architecture</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/02/lean-architecture/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=lean-architecture</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/02/lean-architecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Application ILM]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=8822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lean management practices have been applied in recent years to virtually all business functions and processes, including of course Lean Integration.  IT architecture is no exception. But what exactly does a Lean Architecture look like and how could you measure &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2012/02/02/lean-architecture/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More On The “Achilles Heel Of Cloud Computing – Data Integration”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/09/09/more-on-the-achilles-heel-of-cloud-computing-data-integration/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=more-on-the-achilles-heel-of-cloud-computing-data-integration</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/09/09/more-on-the-achilles-heel-of-cloud-computing-data-integration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Linthicum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=7552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In March of last year I posted a blog here entitled: The Achilles Heel Of Cloud Computing – Data Integration.  “In fact, what currently limits the number of cloud deployments is the lack of a clear understanding of data integration &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/09/09/more-on-the-achilles-heel-of-cloud-computing-data-integration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s Fault Is It If Your Integration Factory Is Not Performing?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/08/16/whos-fault-is-it-if-your-integration-factory-is-not-performing/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=whos-fault-is-it-if-your-integration-factory-is-not-performing</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/08/16/whos-fault-is-it-if-your-integration-factory-is-not-performing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Impact / Benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CIO]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=7180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The CIO of GT Inc. (the fictitious name of a real company) met with his middleware vendor rep to deliver some depressing news. “We established an outsourced factory delivery model two years ago using the productivity tools that you sold &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/08/16/whos-fault-is-it-if-your-integration-factory-is-not-performing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are Function Points Useful For Data Integration?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/06/30/are-function-points-useful-for-data-integration/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=are-function-points-useful-for-data-integration</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/06/30/are-function-points-useful-for-data-integration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Schmidt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Impact / Benefits]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=6119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why does one software project cost twice as much as another?  Is it because it is developing twice as much functionality as the other? If you contract with two system integrators, how can you tell which one is more productive? &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/06/30/are-function-points-useful-for-data-integration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Application Discovery – Fact Or Fiction</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/05/26/application-discovery-fact-or-fiction/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=application-discovery-fact-or-fiction</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/05/26/application-discovery-fact-or-fiction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 13:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Walker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Application ILM]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[consolidation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=5937</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Informatica has been involved in many high value application consolidation projects and naturally our perspective is all about the data – we are interested in its quality, its lineage, its size and shape and how it correlates from one application &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/05/26/application-discovery-fact-or-fiction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Can Services Truly Differentiate a Company?  Informatica Believes So!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/01/27/can-services-truly-differentiate-a-company-informatica-believes-so/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=can-services-truly-differentiate-a-company-informatica-believes-so</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/01/27/can-services-truly-differentiate-a-company-informatica-believes-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Boorman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[B2B]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/?p=4306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the major corporate objectives that Informatica tracks every quarter is &#8220;Improve Customer Satisfaction&#8221;.  We look at at variety of metrics &#8211; both qualitative and quantitative &#8211; relating to how you, our customers, are engaging with us. We evaluate &#8230;<br /> <a href="http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2011/01/27/can-services-truly-differentiate-a-company-informatica-believes-so/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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