By Sohaib Abbasi, CEO, Informatica

How did Visa reduce its risk-modeling time from one month to 13 minutes? How did a top telecommunications leader reduce its maintenance costs by 60 percent and increase its revenues by 30 percent? What is the most common mistake made by IT organizations in data-integration projects? Find out the answers and much more in this article.

We hope you’ll enjoy this informative and provocative new feature on the SandHill site. Each Monday morning we’ll bring you notable statements made recently in the media about the players and trends in the software ecosystem. Be sure to check for your marketplace rivals’ quotes – and maybe even you or your company will be quoted.

This week’s quotes about software development point to skewed vision, lack of professionalism and a prediction about the future success of programmers.

Be sure to post your comments about your perspectives on these notable quotes.

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Britton Manasco’s article, “From Sales Ops to Special Ops: The Future of Sales Operations” drew particular interest among SandHill readers. As one reader commented: “So often, when SalesOps resource is committed it is in the form of individuals that can only dial in to tactical duties. The real trick is in ...”

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