Archives: March 2011

Ovum Research Report: Informatica Company Assessment

This Ovum Research Report gives an independent assessment of Informatica – with specific focus on how and why the Informatica single unified platform enables a variety of data management initiatives which include: enterprise data integration, data quality, cloud data integration, B2B data exchange, low-latency messaging, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Complex Event Processing (CEP), and Master Data Management (MDM).

The detailed report also assesses Informatica’s product roadmap, acquisition strategy and the significance of Informatica’s alignment with evolving trends in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and cloud computing.

The detailed report also assesses Informatica’s product roadmap, acquisition strategy and the significance of Informatica’s alignment with evolving trends in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and cloud computing.

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Topics Covered Application Retirement, B2B Data Exchange, Cloud Computing, Complex Event Processing, Data Integration, Data Migration, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Database Archiving, Master Data Management (MDM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Informatica Webinar Replay: Data Virtualization Architecture and Best Practices for Agile Business Intelligence (BI), Master Data Management (MDM) and Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Join David Lyle and Michael Poulin for a webinar replay to learn more about “Data Virtualization Architecture and Best Practices for Agile BI, MDM and SOA”.

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It takes the IT team too long to deliver the data that business needs. Even when the business get the data, the trust factor is low. The key challenge is data is everywhere – not just in a data warehouse or a single persistent store. It’s in numerous applications, relational databases or files across the enterprise. Adding to the chaos, business and IT often create one-off spreadsheets, custom extracts and data marts, wrap Web services around simple data access, use application integration tools for complex data integration tasks – resulting in data services that are inflexible and have low reuse proliferation and the duplication of data that may not be consistent and current, not to mention increased storage and hardware costs.

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Topics Covered Data Virtualization, Master Data Management (MDM), Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Informatica Webinar Replay: Next Generation Data Virtualization

Join internationally acclaimed speaker – Rick F. van der Lans for a webinar replay to learn more about “Next Generation Data Virtualization”.

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The Data Delivery Platform is a modern and flexible architecture for developing business intelligence systems where data consumers – such as reporting tools and composite applications – are decoupled from data stores. While a Data Delivery Platform can be developed with different types of tools – such as a federation server or an enterprise service bus – the key advantage of a Data Delivery Platform must be its ability to deliver a flexible platform to support BI or SOA, which ensures that the business owns the data and IT controls it. A Data Delivery Platform must be able to process and deliver data from any data source, to any data consumer, in any format, at the speed it is required by the business and to any application.

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Topics Covered Data Services, Data Virtualization

Informatica Water Industry Resource Centre

This Informatica Water Industry Resource Centre is for companies interested in finding out more about best practices for increasing operational efficiency, modernising the business, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and industry standards.

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The water industry has undergone massive changes in the last decade – including deregulation, consolidation, reduced margins and tighter regulation.

These changes have spawned significant information management challenges surrounding the growing volume of data, its complexity and quality. Whether this data is in unstructured, structured, or archived forms – and regardless of whether it resides inside the enterprise, in external systems, or in the cloud – the ability (more…)

Topics Covered Application Retirement, Complex Event Processing, Data Migration, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Database Archiving

Informatica Test Data Management Resource Centre

This Informatica Test Data Management Resource Centre provides essential information for Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel or SAP application users who are interested in adopting a best practice approach to optimising and securing non-production database environments. You will learn about the latest strategies from leading industry experts and independent analysts and also be able to view an interactive data subset and data masking demonstration.

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Creating full non-production copies of databases is inefficient and expensive – not only in terms of software and storage costs, but also in terms of management time. This puts even more pressure on IT budgets and can delay application deployment which makes achieving service level agreements a real struggle. Full size copies of these databases also have the inherent risk of security breach which can be devastating for organisations – not only in pure financial terms, but also in terms of negative PR and loss of customer trust.

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Topics Covered Data Masking, Test Data Management