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By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Managed capacity is an engagement model where you pay a vendor a fixed monthly fee for a set-size team, point it at your own backlog, and let the vendor run, staff, and replace that team while you keep the priorities. It sits between staff augmentation, where you … Read more
Key person risk in data means one employee is the sole route to the numbers. Rebuild one closed quarter without them, log every question, and read the log.
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Contractor offboarding access revocation means closing every path a contractor had into your systems, not just disabling the SSO account: live sessions, refresh tokens, personal access tokens, cloud keys, and the shared secrets they could read. Most teams do the first item and call it done. A … Read more
A data foundation is built in order, starting with raw data kept untouched, one checked record per entity, then a few published tables. The dashboard comes last.
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Every company is now a technology company because the way it takes orders, ships product, bills customers, and figures out whether it made money all runs on software. So technology decisions are business decisions now, whether leadership treats them that way or not. That doesn’t mean you should go … Read more
A single source of truth is one canonical record per borrower, a validation library, and an uncertainty tag on every field that cannot be trusted yet.
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia Managing developers when you’re not technical works if you manage outcomes instead of code: define finished in business terms, look at working software every week, and borrow technical judgment for the calls you can’t make yourself. You don’t need to read the code. You need to stop pretending the … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Informatica developer interview questions in 2026 should test how a candidate proved a migrated mapping still produced the same numbers, which Informatica products they actually worked in, and what their old PowerCenter jobs could not carry to the cloud. Syntax questions about transformation types are answerable from any certification … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 Informatica developers earn $95,000 to $210,000 in 2026, with maintenance-only PowerCenter work at the bottom of that range and PowerCenter-to-IDMC migration leads at the top. The gap is not seniority. It is which side of the migration the work sits on, and most reqs are still priced as though … Read more
An OCR project stalls because the accuracy number it reports was never the number the business needed. What to build instead, in six weeks.
