Data and Database Management Software
Software streamlines data profiling and quality initiatives.
Press Release Summary:
Informatica Data Quality v3.1 and Data Explorer v5.0 help organizations design, deploy, and manage distributed data quality strategies. End-to-end integration with PowerCenter enables data profiling and cleansing to become integral components of data integration lifecycle. Informatica Data Quality allows business to control its data quality processes, while Informatica Data Explorer provides data profiling and mapping capabilities.
Original Press Release:
Informatica Data Quality and Data Explorer Empower Business Users and Streamline Data Profiling and Quality Initiatives
New Releases Integrate End-to-End Functionality Into Informatica PowerCenter
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 6 / - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced the latest releases of its data quality products, Informatica Data Quality 3.1 and Informatica Data Explorer 5.0. The new versions, generally available in November 2006, deliver enhanced value for customers looking to implement best-in-class data quality processes, including simple yet powerful business-oriented user interfaces; new capabilities that increase user and developer productivity; and end-to-end integration with the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform, which enables data profiling and cleansing to become integral components of the overall data integration lifecycle.
"The business impact of data quality has never been more profound as companies strive to comply with regulatory demands, launch master data management initiatives, modernize and consolidate applications, and streamline supply chain, marketing and other key business processes," said Brian Gentile, executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Informatica. "In introducing Informatica Data Quality 3.1 and Informatica Data Explorer 5.0, we are enabling data quality processes to be applied in a broader, easier and more powerful way than ever before, thus extending the abilities of both business and IT users to ensure data accuracy."
Informatica Data Quality is powerful, easy-to-use software designed specifically to allow a business to control its data quality processes, while Informatica Data Explorer puts powerful, easy-to-use data profiling and mapping capabilities in the hands of both business and IT. Together the products enable organizations to design, deploy, and manage distributed data quality strategies and reduce data integration project risks. With the latest enhancements, Informatica Data Quality and Informatica Data Explorer make it easier for business users to improve the quality of their data on an ongoing basis, while enabling IT to further reduce the costs and speed the time-to-value of data-driven initiatives.
"Enterprises have started to demand data quality as an embedded feature of all operational information management environments," says James Kobielus, principal analyst with Current Analysis. "To make that happen, organizations must integrate data quality governance into the business processes that govern all types of corporate reference information. That, in turn, requires that intuitive data quality tools be put into the hands of the non-technical business users responsible for ongoing data stewardship."
Effective Data Quality
Informatica Data Quality delivers comprehensive data cleansing, matching, and quality monitoring capabilities for a broad range of data - including customer, product, financial, inventory, pricing, order and various other types of enterprise data. These capabilities are presented through an intuitive, business-oriented "workbench," making it easy for data owners to define rules and metrics to manage data quality as a continuing process. Data owners then leverage visual "data quality scorecards" tied to these rules and metrics in order to monitor the quality of their data, pinpoint issues, and address problems before they impact the business.
Integration with PowerCenter - across both development and runtime - means that data cleansing rules created with Informatica Data Quality can now be deployed across an enterprise in standard PowerCenter data integration processes, with all data movements, transformations and consolidations monitored for data quality.
"Recognizing the significant impact of data quality on core business processes, VWR has implemented the Informatica Data Quality solution enterprise-wide to improve master data management and help support Sarbanes-Oxley compliance," said Jennifer D. Gaines, Director Content Management of VWR International, a worldwide distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, chemicals and furniture. "We now have a standard, automated process for managing data quality, encompassing quality dimensions, metrics and cleansing. As a result, we've improved the quality of our master data and are now highly proactive in ensuring the accuracy of critical information."
Streamlined enterprise data quality development
Integration with PowerCenter also enhances developer productivity, reduces development and deployment costs, and hastens time-to-market for data integration projects. For example, PowerCenter now has the integrated ability to call any Informatica Data Quality function required and users can leverage Informatica Data Explorer-created metadata and analyses to accelerate the creation of data integration transformations and mappings.
Integration with PowerCenter also ensures that Informatica Data Quality automatically and transparently inherits the enterprise-class performance, scalability, and high availability intrinsic to the PowerCenter platform. This includes PowerCenter's parallel processing and grid computing capabilities as well as its web services-based service oriented architecture.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,650 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of any complexity and scale. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-9871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com/ .
Source: Informatica Corporation
CONTACT:
Kathy Stahlman of Informatica Corporation,
+1-650-385-4434,
kstahlman@informatica.com;
Web site: www.informatica.com/
