Get to know Pinaki Mukerji: Queplix EVP & Chief Product Officer

Pinaki Mukerji
Queplix EVP & Chief Product Officer

Pinaki Mukerji has more than 20 years experience in the software industry and delivered many market leading products. He joined Informatica in 1995, at a very early stage of the company. Over the past 15 years, Pinaki played a pivotal role in growing Informatica from $0 MM in revenue in 1995 to $650MM revenue at the end of 2010. Over the years, Pinaki built a highly talented engineering team spanning multiple geography and grew the product portfolio. Pinaki is responsible for the Informatica Platform Technology and the Data integration product.

As Chief Product Officer at Queplix, he is responsible for managing our engineering team and guiding the company’s technology development. Mukerji joins Queplix from his most recent position as Senior Vice President, Platform Technology R&D at Informatica®, Inc. (INFA). While at Informatica® Mukerji was one of the key driving forces behind many of their key product initiatives.

“Pinaki did a brilliant job at Informatica® and I expect he will do even more at Queplix,” said Mark Cashman, chief executive officer for Queplix. “There is no executive with more relevant experience than Pinaki. Our platform delivers an open, business user ready, enterprise platform for data integration and data management. Pinaki pioneered many early data integration successes with Informatica® and he is supremely qualified to lead our product vision forward.”

“The Queplix platform for cloud and on-premise is an industry first.  Business users are now empowered to bring projects from concept to deliverable without IT programmers,” said Mukerji.  “Advanced data virtualization is the future.  It is a game changing technology for the data integration world.  It reduces cost and risk and enables performance more than any other technology or architecture.  I am extremely pleased and excited to join the company at such a critical time in the company’s evolution.”

Application Software Blade™ for Oracle® E-Business Suite 12.1

The Automated Approach to Data Integration

See The Video – Integrate Oracle E-Business Suite With Anything

Queplix® has created a highly automated, fast and easy approach for integrating Oracle® E-Business Suite with other on-premise and cloud based applications.  Queplix Application Software Blades leverage the power of advanced data virtualization to lower your total cost of ownership, speed implementation and lower risk.  The system is designed for a business user – you don’t need to be an SQL programmer.  Absolutely no SQL is required. Once data is integrated it remains easily accessible, providing you have requisite security, to any number of additional applications. Our Application Software Blades provide complete connectivity, data flow, security, and automation for the integration process – check boxes, configure and go.

Supported Capability for Oracle® E-Business Suite 12.1

There are eleven Oracle® Applications that can be integrated using our Application Software Blades.  These include:

• Oracle® Marketing and Sales Application
• Oracle® Channel Revenue Management Application
• Oracle® Order Management Application
• Oracle® Logistics Application
• Oracle® Procurement Application
• Oracle® Manufacturing Application
• Oracle® Service Application
• Oracle® Projects Application
• Oracle® Financials Application
• Oracle® Human Resources Application
• Oracle® Agile® Application – see our separate webpage on our Application Software Blade for Agile®

Data and Application Migration

Queplix Virtual Data Manager or QueCloud can use these Application Software Blades to enable data migration in any direction.  Our Virtual Migration Manager is part of every one of on-premise systems and standard in our QueCloud.  Virtual Migration Manager is highly automated, fast and easy to deploy.  Find out why consultants and software professionals worldwide use Virtual Migration Manager to move data out of legacy systems and into new applications.

Build Your Data Warehouse

Queplix Virtual Data Manager or QueCloud can use these Application Software Blades to help you build out your Data Warehouse much faster than using legacy toolsets like ETL or EII.  Your return on investment for using the power of advanced data virtualization will save 75% or more of your time and efforts to merge various data sets into your Data Warehouse.

Download the Application Software Blade for Oracle® datasheet and learn more.

Learn more about Oracle® E-Business Suite.

Our professional services team can help you with any implementation – reduce your expense by 75% or more.

DATA INTEGRATION: Top 5 Best Practices

The explosion in information technology tools and capability has accelerated. Our information technology environment is moving at absolute light-speed. Yet the back of data integration is broken. 90% of the customers are using 20 year old ETL technology designed to move batch files into the data warehouse at 1 am. It is a manual process. Worst of all, is that some vendors have even put this 20 year old technology in their newly minted 1 year old cloud. Who wants 20 year old technology in a 1 year old cloud?

To add insult to injury, data quality is … “another product.” I humbly submit that without resolving data quality issues and providing for their ongoing maintenance you cannot integrate even two applications, load your data warehouse, consider a future Virtual MDM deployment.

The cause of this is simple. Look at the revenue mix for the two major vendors that control the market for large enterprise. Their business is about professional services – not software tools. They are in business to sell you, their customer, as much professional services at the highest rates you can imagine. Legacy ETL technology is a bonanza to a company that sells your company services by the hour.

Even worse, they don’t offer you the right mix of services and technology. The integration was done to specification but it doesn’t seem to work. I guess we’ll just have to sell you additional consulting to do the data quality clean-up.

The five best practices in data integration break this model. We turn the model upside down. By using advanced data virtualization, and pushing back at the legacy monopoly attached to your wallet, you can reduce your costs and speed your time to implementation.

BEST PRACTICE #1: Use an Automated Metadata Discovery Tool and Data Dictionary. IEEE did a seminal study recently in the area of data integration to understand how the time was allocated. Over 40%+ of the time in any data integration project is spent on discovery. What is the structure of the data? Which field corresponds to others so that we can identify the source record of truth and harmonize it over to the target? Advanced data virtualization can completely automate the discovery of data structures, provides insight into how things relate (semantics) and then automates the integration between the systems. All of this is automated and easy to deploy. You will be able to reduce your time, in this project phase alone, by 75% or more because you use a metadata discovery tool.

BEST PRACTICE #2: Data Quality Must Be Integrated At Every Step in Your Project. Data quality is an essential project component for a small, medium or large company. Not a separate project. Advanced data virtualization technology provides full data quality tool sets, fully automated, with the product. It is the starting point to any data integration, the core to best practices implementation and the ongoing steady hand that keep your data harmonization working into the future. Without good data quality, each data harmonization will reject hundreds to thousands of records that “don’t synchronize.” And this creates tons of additional work.

BEST PRACTICE #3: Understand Your Needs Versus Vendor Architecture. “Tomorrow never comes” is not the right way to deploy critical applications that serve your business. Advanced data virtualization brings a hub and spoke architecture that easily extends and adds the next application to your integration architecture. This is in sharp contrast to the pipe (or pipe and hub for mdm) architectures you must assemble with ETL.

BEST PRACTICE #4: Bring in Tools Suitable For Business Users – No Programming Required. Advanced data virtualization enables your business user to point, click and select to build out integrations. Data transformations between systems come together using a formula builder very similar to Microsoft® Excel® – highly intuitive and obvious. This works the same with relational data, objects, complex API’s with products like SAP®, XML and even NoSQL data sources. One simple object framework designed to work with everything – fast, easy and automated.

BEST PRACTICE #5: Data Enrichment is Easy – Automate It For Business Benefit. Today products like D&B360® and others offer clean data sources for many elements of your important customer data. Yet most of our customers are still manually correcting data at the time of data entry in the ERP system, and then hoping that the support and SFA systems catch up. There is a better way – you can harmonize data directly with a source of data enrichment using business rules. This improves business process and provides strong ROI.

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Analysis of Data Integration Technologies — A New Whitepaper

Introduction
Rapid technology change and innovation is an expected component of modern life. This is self-evident today with the feverish pace of development within such sub markets as
smart phones and tablets. It is interesting to note, however, that some technology areas experience a perception within the public mind (and within target business customers
specifically) of having achieved a “plateau of maturity”which neither requires nor offers opportunity for continued innovation.

Perhaps surprisingly, one such area is within data integration
technologies. The reasons why this is surprising include
the fact that the necessity for data integration continually
presents itself for customers and enterprises of all types and
sizes as well as the fact that due to a plethora of platforms
and systems which are in use today (both old and new), this
area’s complexity increases constantly.

As Gartner stated in their 2010 “Magic Quadrant for Data
Integration Tools” report: “Market conditions favor offerings
with low costs and rapid time to value, but buyers that see
data integration as strategic also seek rich capabilities to fuel
their information infrastructure.

Complete Whitepaper Here:  http://www.idealnetinc.com/IdealNet_Analysis_of_Data_Integration_Technologies.pdf

Twleve Reasons

IBM EXCEEDS EARNINGS, RAISES FORECAST (AGAIN!)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/business/20ibm.html

Another market singled out for rapid expansion is the business of helping companies mine data for useful information such as using Web traffic and social-network postings to guide marketing, sales, manufacturing and purchasing decisions.  The software for mining vast data troves is called business intelligence or analytics software. In the last five years, I.B.M. has spent $14 billion acquiring 25 specialist companies in analytics. The company’s analytics unit now employs 8,000 consultants and 200 mathematicians. 

“The biggest change facing corporations is the explosion of data,” said David Grossman, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. “The best business is in helping customers analyze and manage all that data, and I.B.M. is making a big push there.”  In a conference call, Mark Loughridge, the chief financial officer, described Watson, I.B.M.’s Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, as a triumph of the company’s skills in analytics. In February, Watson beat two human Jeopardy champions. “We didn’t invest just to play Jeopardy,” he said. “We invested to provide leadership applications for our clients.”  I.B.M. said its analytics business grew 20 percent in the quarter. The 2015 goal for that business is $16 billion.

CORAID DEPLOYS QUEPLIX DATA VIRTUALIZATION TO INTEGRATE CUSTOMER DATA ACROSS SALESFORCE AND NETSUITE

Virtual Data Manager Ensures Data Consistency Between Applications to Enhance Salesforce Automation, Enterprise Resource Managment, and Customer Relationship Management

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 6, 2011 – Queplix™ Corp., a leader in data virtualization, today announced that Coraid® Inc., a leading developer of Ethernet SAN storage solutions, has deployed Queplix Virtual Data Manager™ to synchronize critical customer data across Salesforce® and Netsuite® for enhancement of its salesforce automation, enterprise resource management and customer relationship management (CRM) efforts. This synchronization ensures that all Coraid users are consistently working with the best possible data about their most valuable resource – their customers – whether they are using Salesforce or Netsuite.

“Integration between these two cloud-based business applications is an essential part of day-to-day operations at Coraid. It’s imperative that users can gain access to the most correct, up-to-date information,” said Josh Leslie, vice president of North American sales at Coraid. “We had used an alternate cloud integration technology, but it wasn’t able to deliver the data quality and business-rule implementation we needed. Queplix Virtual Data Manager not only solved the problem of consistent data but also was the only solution we found that provides a clear view to the business rules that govern Coraid’s internal processes. We also will be changing and improving business process by automating links into Dun and Bradstreet for data quality.”

Queplix Virtual Data Manager streamlines and simplifies the process of synchronizing data across different platforms through Data Harmonization™ with absolutely no SQL required. Legacy solutions that involve multiple steps such as topology and data schema analysis, and that rely on ETL and ‘wire frame’ diagram tools, make data integration a complex and costly process.

In contrast, the Queplix architecture includes a series of intelligent Application Software Blades™ that identify and extract key metadata and associated security information from target applications and move it to the Queplix persistent metadata catalog. There, the data is automatically harmonized with other systems. The initial setup and ongoing Data Harmonization ensure that Coraid users have the same consistent view of information from both Salesforce and Netsuite. Queplix offers the only integration solution that uses the power of data virtualization, and does not require SQL or coding. This made it easy for the Coraid team to participate in the implementation process, and Queplix professional services delivered the turnkey implementation to Coraid on time and on budget.

“Enterprises today face a very real problem when it comes to ensuring that all users have access to consistent, up-to-date information, because the same data may be stored in and used by different systems,” said Julie Lockner, vice president and senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. “Solutions such as Queplix data virtualization, that provide an easier, more cost-effective way to achieve data consistency across applications, offer an attractive alternative to traditional ETL tools.”

“Companies like Coraid want to focus on their business, not on the difficulties of getting their systems to work the way they need them to,” said Mark Cashman, CEO, Queplix. “Our Virtual Data Manager removes a major obstacle to data integration, enabling customers to achieve integration quickly and at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions.”

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About Queplix Corp.
Queplix is a leader in data virtualization. Data virtualization enables our customers to automatically and securely integrate cloud, SaaS and on-premise applications and data with speed and simplicity. Uniquely, Queplix brings powerful data management to automatically harmonize the integrated applications and data for higher business value. Our customers benefit from greater cost savings and rapid return on investment. Queplix has thousands of users around the world, serving customers such as The Home Depot, Homesite and Sony Ericsson. Please visit http://www.queplix.com for more information.

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Data Integration Without ETL — Integrating Netsuite® and SalesForce®: A Case Study

Friday Mar 11, 2011 – 10 am PST / 1 pm EST.  Data Integration Without ETL.  Integrating Netsuite® with Salesforce® – A Case Study Where We Successfully Replaced a Leading “Cloud Integration” Vendor with CloudETL™.

* Understand how CloudETL™ replaced a failed installation by a “leading cloud integration vendor…”
* Understand the detailed deployment, step-by-step implementation, business process issues, quality issues and operational issues.
* Nothing but the facts.  The facts shall set you free!
* Never use wire diagrams or cumbersome non-reusable templates again.
* Understand the benefits, advantages and ease-of-use that CloudETL™, VirtualETL™ and Virtual Data Manager™ provide.



Is ETL Dead?

Queplix Webinar: Thinking of ETL? Don’t Do It. Find out Why

03.02.2011– Traditional ETL is accepted as the defacto method for data integration, data mart and data warehouse loading, and very important for business functions such as business intelligence. Application and data integration teams have found no other acceptable alternatives. Yet there remain very significant challenges with legacy ETL tools. Misaligned expectations, missed project implementation dates, and misfired budgets are the high price many organizations pay due to the considerable complexities and operational problems associated with today’s ETL. Perhaps front and center, is the notion that the use of ETL is more about professional services than anything else. Most of the cost is in the set-up and ongoing maintenance.

ETL as a legacy technology, is focused solely on SQL. New applications such as Salesforce.com®, Netsuite®, Taleo®, RightNow® and many others are cloud based and object oriented and do not fit easily into the legacy paradigm. So bridging the gap to cloud applications is difficult and time consuming. It is perhaps even worse to connect to major legacy applications such as SAP® – the complexity of the API requires special consulting resources to support the ETL programming that must be done. Finally, most IT executives and CFOs have always been concerned that ETL is very much a “black box” technology – you cannot easily understand or audit the internal workings.

On Friday, March 4th, Queplix™ Corp. (www.queplix.com) will host a webinar exploring advanced data virtualization technologies that eliminate these complexities and offer an alternative approach to the legacy ETL model that is holding today’s enterprises hostage. The webinar will examine advanced data virtualization and automation processes that can supercharge ETL efforts and cut implementation time by 75% or more. ETL teams find advanced data virtualization in products such as VirtualETL™ and CloudETL™ can reduce implementation time by 75% or more and easily bridge the gap to the object and XML world.

For more information visit:  http://www.queplix.com/newsandevents/events.html

Data Virtualization Meets ETL

Queplix Wednesday put a couple of tools on the market that are supposed to make it easier, quicker and cheaper to move data to the cloud.

Its new VirtualETL and CloudETL lines bring data virtualization to usually thorny extract, transform and load (ETL) tasks and are supposed to cut the time required to connect applications a good 75% compared to traditional ETL methodologies.

Queplix CEO Mark Cashman says using data virtualization for ETL “changes everything; ETL teams can mix any combination of relational, object, cloud or XML-based applications. And they don’t need to use SQL to set up connectivity, define the transforms, tune data quality or get the integration into production. We’ve essentially turned the cost model upside down, lowering product costs and dramatically reducing set-up costs.”

 

The widgetry, which requires no coding, lets users configure Queplix’ Application Software Blades to automatically connect to target applications like SalesForce.com, Netsuite, Taleo, PeopleSoft, Siebel and SAP ERP.

The VirtualETL family includes enterprise-class VirtualETL, which connects any two enterprise applications together, and professional-class VirtualETL, which lets users connect any two applications that use RDBMS systems.

With CloudETL, users can connect any two cloud-based applications or connect a cloud-based application with one that’s not cloud-based.

Pricing ranges from $9,999-$19,999. There are monthly pricing models available to fit cloud and SaaS deployment budgets.

The company says the stuff provides an easily audited view of the entire transform lineage.

 

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