Informatica (Nasdaq: INFA) is paying around $40M for Chicago-based Applimation. The startup sells data management software, including testing, archiving and security applications for Oracle, PeopleSoft and Siebel. Applimation had raised roughly $9.3M from Battery Ventures, JMI Equity, RPM Ventures and M Group. Applimation provides application. A deal like this would have seemed like small beans a couple...
Positivo Informatica, Brazil’s biggest computer maker, surged 79 percent in São Paulo trading on speculation that the Lenovo Group had increased its buyout offer.
In conjunction with a local university, the government of Cuba released its own version of the open-source Linux operating system called Nova Baire. Citing the difficulty to obtain private software on the island, as well as security concerns, the government hopes to move 50% of their computers to this new system over the next five years
Seasonal Patterns found for the following stocks: ProShares UltraShort MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEV) over the next 9 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for ProShares UltraShort MSCI Emerging Markets ETF in context. Equinix Inc (EQIX) over the next 6 trading days. Look at the seasonal patterns for Equinix Inc in context. Polycom Inc (PLCM) [...]
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Want to send your credit card information over the secure Internet to purchase a favored bauble? Think about that one for a moment because there is a weakness in the Internet digital certificate infrastructure that allows attackers to forge certificates fully trusted by all commonly used web browsers, according to independent security researchers in California and researchers at the Centrum Wiskunde...
LAS VEGAS, NV (MARKET WIRE) Demonstrating that companies can continue to shine in the two most important functions in business -- creating and keeping customers -- even in the face of economic upheaval, the third annual Stevie(R) Awards for Sales & Customer Service presented its honors last night.
How about a “service oriented architecture” for data? Over at the Informatica Perspectives blogsite, I quoted from a presentation given by Madan Sheina, principal analyst within Ovum’s Software Applications group, who proposed that a data architecture be designed along the same lines as SOA for applications - in what he calls “process-driven data integration.” “Just...
BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ISA Consulting has been named the 2008 Solution Provider of the Year by Informatica, recognizing its contribution to Informatica’s Data Integration and Data Quality software
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) DVO Software today announced DataValidator(TM), a revolutionary new metadata-driven software application for Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) PowerCenter that automates the data testing and validation portion of data integration initiatives.
Space-Time Insight (STI), maker of software that lets utilities and other infrastructure companies pinpoint data abnormalities on satellite maps, announced that it just brought in an undisclosed first round of funding to further develop its technology. Working primarily with electric-power utilities, the Fremont, Calif.-based company says its system can monitor the status of renewable energy, [...]...
The other week I posted an article on optimizing the Oracle B Applications ETL process, and one useful set of diagnostic data I highlighted at the time was the ETL step timings that are available in the DAC Console. For every running or completed execution plan in the DAC Repository, you can list out the [...]
Informatica (INFA) shares are heading south this morning following the data integration software company’s report last night on Q4 financial results . For the quarter, Informatica posted revenue of $124.4 million, up 9% from a year earlier, with non-GAAP profits of 24 cents a share. While revenue was $3 million shy of the Street, EPS beat by a penny a share. On the company’s post-earning...
Devitt notes $6.7 billion revenue was up 24% on organic basis; operating margin was 5.4%, well ahead of expectations; the company ended the fourth quarter with $3.3 billion in net cash. He says AMZN's domestic revenue growth of 18% compares to domestic eCommerce of -3%. He notes, importantly, while many retailers are experiencing tighter payment terms, AMZN terms are improving.
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