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Family event à la Hollywood: "And the Winner is..."
My name is Bond...Chris Bond. Welcome to Los Angeles...er Mainz! On October 02 and 03 the time had finally come! It was time for our annual family event. This time we took our kids and suitcases to Mainz, the very place where...
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services - Questions and answers
With IICS (Intelligent Cloud Services), Informatica offers an iPaaS solution (Integration-Platform-as-a-Service) for the integration and provision of data and application services - locally and in the cloud. The features described in the article Intelligent Cloud...
Job² - cleverly automate scripts
Automatically executed tasks are part of every modern IT infrastructure. Even private users, for example, use the Windows autostart feature intuitively (or after a successful Google search). Things get more complicated when processes have dependencies...
Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC)
Digital communication and processing have become indispensable in today's world. As a result, the flood of information is constantly increasing. Data is invaluable across all industries, but it also presents a major challenge. In order to...
Trello - Our smart solution for internal projects
For internal projects, we use the Trello tool, which is designed to not only improve self-organization within the team, but also to make work more agile. Furthermore, Trello implements the Scrum model, such as the good...
Splunk in combination with PowerCenter - the best of 2 leaders
We have recently started using Splunk in a customer project in addition to an ETL line with Informatica PowerCenter - here I would like to focus in particular on the possibilities that this combination offers. The tools But first a brief introduction...
Open Space & Private Area: Virtual rooms at in-factory
Internal communication: intelligent touchpoints and the "green salon" A company thrives on internal communication - in other words, the active exchange between colleagues, teams and departments. Even a pandemic doesn't bring the world to...
Internal (virtual) communication in times of pandemic
Corona has had us firmly in its grip for more than a year. This not only affects our private lives, but also our working environment. The majority of our in-factory colleagues are now working from home, and our annual...
SCRUM in the pandemic - what's new?
SCRUM is a process and collaboration model that supports agile software development. This approach has become standard in our projects. We successfully support this through the provision and maintenance of appropriately trained...
Exploring the general structure of PowerCenter - Part 3
PowerCenter since version 8 Things changed considerably in version 8 when Informatica introduced the Informatica Platform as "technical" basis for all future developments. The Informatica platform consists of a heap of web server applications (Tomcat / Apache) plus...
Exploring the general structure of PowerCenter - Part 2
Here it is the second part of the powercenter exploration triology. To the previous part PowerCenter up to Version 7.1.2 Until version 7.1.2, each PowerCenter installation would contain at least one repository but might have contained more (if the customer had...
Exploring the general structure of PowerCenter - Part 1
About PowerCenter & PowerMart When Informatica published its first software version in 1995, the software was called PowerMart (because it was designed to maintain data marts). The name PowerCenter was introduced around 1998 and - in the beginning - denoted a...
Sustainability at in-factory
Sustainability: what it means to us and what we do to achieve it. The first thought will immediately be about ecology. This is of course an important part of the topic, but there is much more to it. Responsible use of resources, the environment and...
25 years of in-factory: A success story in facts and pictures
Many innovative ideas. A shared vision! Anniversary review and outlook from the management On May 30, 1996, in-factory was founded by the three computer scientists Erich Schlotterer, Urban Wymann and Gerald Weber - 25 years have passed since then. 25 years...
What is more sustainable than cycling to work?
"Cycling to the customer and beyond" - an interesting experience report "Sometimes you just have to be brave for 20 seconds!" is what I think to myself when I have the moment to cycle past my own car. Of course, with a car...