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Salesforce-Informatica Sale Plan Seen as Potential Pointer to Data Sector’s Future
Salesforce’s planned US$8 billion acquisition of data management and integration specialist Informatica has left data industry observers scratching their heads and trying parse the longer-term implications of the deal for the rest of the IT industry. The puzzlement comes from the CRM giant’s choice of purchase target, with responses focussed particularly on the overlap of…
Gaining a Holistic View of the Modern Investment Portfolio: Webinar Preview
The economic landscape has been transformed in recent years by a combination of technological upheavals, rising cost pressures on financial institutions and a rewriting of geopolitical and trading norms. All of these have inevitably led financial institutions to reconfigure their operations and the data processes on which they depend. The next A-Team Group Data Management…
Salesforce to Buy Informatica, Betting on ‘Switzerland of Data’ to Drive AI
Data management giant Informatica is to be acquired by Salesforce in a deal valued at US$8 billion, giving the CRM behemoth a cloud-based data business on which to further build its artificial intelligence ambitions. The California-based companies entered into an agreement for the deal, which will see Salesforce buy all the Informatica stock it doesn’t…
Standards and Identifiers Help to Prevent ‘Data Chaos’: Webinar Preview
Financial institutions’ absorption of ever-greater volumes of data, and their utilisation of it in a surging number of use cases, is putting strains on their data management processes. Taking the friction out of those workflows can improve performance substantially. But the absence of a unified international set of standards to ensure all data used by…
Overcoming Data Challenges of Rapidly Evolving ESG Space: ESG Data and Tech Briefing Preview
The rapid maturation of ESG data integration and utilisation within financial institutions has forced them to invest in new technology and data management processes. The rate of change, however, has been a challenge for some organisations, which have struggled to put in place the necessary capabilities to absorb, order and deploy such large volumes of…
Scale and Governance Top Drivers of Modern Data Architecture Plans: Webinar Review
Financial institutions are investing in modern technology architectures to bolster the flexibility and scalability of their data management processes as the number of use cases for that information, and the volume of data they ingest, expands. They are also seizing on the latest architectures to strengthen data governance in response to the growing complexity of…
Three Predictions for the ESG Year Ahead from ESG Data and Tech Briefing Keynote Speaker Barrie Ingman
What a difference a year makes. At A-Team Group’s last big ESG event, in the spring of last year, delegates were still buoyant about the ESG space even after a bruising 12 months in which anti- sustainability rhetoric had risen again. Calls among conservatives in the US to backpedal on regulatory controls combined with the…
Regulatory Volatility Offers Opportunity to Mine Value from Compliance Data
A new era of regulatory change is presenting institutions with a golden opportunity to prosper from the troves of data they need to comply with reporting obligations. Information required by market overseers has value that goes beyond its obligatory use in disclosures and companies that put it to wider use stand to gain a competitive…
Bloomberg Debuts Real-Time Events Data Feed
Bloomberg has broken new ground with the release of its Real-time Events Data solution, which it says will help financial institutions make better decisions faster, based on the most accurate and timely information. The US financial data and technology behemoth has leveraged its real-time streaming API connectivity to provide subscribing clients with data from earnings…
Implementing and Understanding Modern Data Architectures: Webinar Preview
The evolution of data use by financial institutions has been accompanied by ever-changing challenges to its management. With technologies such as artificial intelligence enabling firms to prise greater value from their data and to subject it to greater utilisation, a new set of data management practices have emerged. These modern data architectures regard data as…