The Informatica Cloud is an integration-as-a-service platform for designing and executing Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tasks. This is the fourth and final post in a blog series that looked a few realistic usage scenarios for this platform. In this post, I’ll show… Read More ›
Month: March 2012
ETL in the Cloud with Informatica: Part 3 – Sending Dynamics CRM Online Data to Local Database
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I’ve taken a look at doing Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) operations using the Informatica Cloud. This platform looks like a great choice for bulk movement of data between cloud or on-premises systems. So… Read More ›
ETL in the Cloud with Informatica: Part 2 – Sending Salesforce.com Data to Dynamics CRM Online
In my last post, we saw how the Informatica Cloud lets you create bulk data load (i.e. ETL) tasks using a web-based designer and uses a lightweight local machine agent to facilitate the data exchange. In this post, I’ll show… Read More ›
ETL in the Cloud with Informatica: Part 1 – Sending File Data to Dynamics CRM Online
The more software systems that we deploy to cloud environments, the greater the need will be to have an efficient integration strategy. Integration through messaging is possible through something like an on-premises integration server, or via a variety of cloud… Read More ›
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online: By the Numbers
I’ve enjoyed attending Microsoft’s 2012 Convergence Conference, and one action item for me is to take another look at Dynamics CRM Online. Now, one reason that I spend more time playing with Salesforce.com instead of Dynamics CRM Online is because… Read More ›
I’m at the Microsoft Convergence conference this week
From Monday through Wednesday of this week, I’ll be at Microsoft’s Convergence conference in Houston, Texas. This is Microsoft’s annual conference for the Dynamics product line, and this year I’ll be attending as a speaker. I’m co-delivering a session entitled Managing… Read More ›
Doing a Multi-Cloud Deployment of an ASP.NET Web Application
The recent Azure outage once again highlighted the value in being able to run an application in multiple clouds so that a failure in one place doesn’t completely cripple you. While you may not run an application in multiple clouds… Read More ›