Identity Resolution Daily Links 2010-02-16
By the Infoglide Team
itWorldCanada: IBM has ulterior motives with Initiate: Informatica
“IBM owes it to its customers to explain if, when and how it plans to rationalize and integrate the overlapping MDM and data quality technology, said Ivan Chong, executive vice-president of the Redwood City, Calif.-based company’s data quality product division. ‘If I were them, I would have the impression that IBM is repurposing the technology for something completely different,’ said Chong.”
“Of the more than 300 law enforcement agencies in Florida, 105 — including the Lee and Charlotte county sheriffs’ offices — are currently sharing information on FINDER. Another 41 are currently utilizing the database, but aren’t sharing information. ‘The more departments we can get involved, the better,’ Weschler said. In the coming months, the Southwest Florida regional fusion center is slated to be operational. As an information hub, the center will gather, digest and compare data from across 10 Southwest Florida counties and 72 other fusion centers in the United States.”
Information Week: Global CIO: Will Informatica’s Surging Success Trigger A Takeover?
“But as Abbasi and his team at Informatica continue to grow faster than most software companies, and as CIOs continue to realize how valuable Informatica’s data-integration and data-quality tools can be, and as it grows and expands into new areas such as MDM via its Siperian acquisition, Informatica’s value to those big software companies is soaring.”
9news.com: Covert videotaping: a tool to fight crime or intimidate people?
“‘It’s just a blatant attempt to obtain benefits and money,’ Cosson said. ‘If someone files a false claim or is working while receiving benefits, ultimately that results in a loss of revenue for the insurance company and if they lose revenues, they have to raise rates and then the premiums clearly go up for legitimate businesses all over Colorado.’ The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud says that all insurance fraud costs every family $1,000 a year in higher premiums and it makes goods and services more expensive.”
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