It’s time for the business and IT to get on the same page. Put your data to work for the business. Speak the same language. Team up to get the job done right—right now.
It’s time for Informatica 9.
Informatica 9 brings together the business and IT sides of your company. Everyone works from a single set of priorities, toward a single mission. Everyone has a stake in making sure data delivers value.
When business requirements and IT delivery are aligned, your company transforms the way it operates. You work faster, cheaper, and smarter.
The innovative business-IT collaboration capabilities of Informatica 9 allow project teams to:
- Communicate more effectively
- Share work more easily
- Complete projects more quickly
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Empower the Business
Informatica 9 makes the business more self-sufficient. Business analysts
and data stewards can get the data they need and trust it. They can analyze
data and define data rules themselves using a set of simple,
browser-based tools designed specifically for them.
Fuel IT Productivity
Informatica 9 makes IT more productive. Each person—whether on the business
or IT side—can view rules and metadata in terms that make sense to his
or her role. Share a common
set of rules and metadata across the enterprise. Instead of wasting
time sending spreadsheets back and forth in an attempt to interpret the
needs of the business, IT can focus on implementation. Projects that
once took months can be completed in days.
Collaborate with High Fidelity
Informatica 9 makes the business and IT work better together. A set
of intuitive collaboration features enables business analysts, data
stewards, and IT developers to share work and information easily. Nothing
is lost in translation from specification and analysis to implementation.
When the business and IT are collaborating effectively, it takes fewer
iterations to complete projects and accelerates time to value.
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Business-IT Collaboration Benefits
For Business Executives/Sponsors
- Place ownership of the data in the hands of the people who understand it best—your business managers, stewards, and analysts
- Keep up with the pace of change in your business by communicating and collaborating more effectively with IT to accelerate project schedules and eliminate redundant work
- Make sure that your IT projects deliver expected results by preventing miscommunication and information loss
- Align your IT projects with your most critical business initiatives, such as modernizing the business, attracting and retaining customers, increasing operational efficiency, and improving compliance reporting
For CIOs
- Make IT organizations more efficient and productive by making the business more self-sufficient in executing data quality activities
- Accelerate project cycles by eliminating wasteful iterations spent trying to understand business requirements, and by sharing work and findings easily
For Enterprise Architects
- Maintain a single version of the truth by preventing metadata and rules from being lost or misinterpreted
- Ensure that the business and IT are operating at peak efficiency with tools that are appropriate for their purposes and roles
For Directors/Vice Presidents of Enterprise Applications
- Minimize implementation risk by empowering the business to explain requirements accurately to IT
- Ensure that the data within applications can be trusted by giving the business the authority and ability to profile data and establish data quality rules
- Provide the supporting processes for data stewards and IT developers to work together to maintain high-quality application data
- Roll out projects faster by ensuring that the business and IT are collaborating on common shared metadata, but in terms each understands
- Eliminate time-consuming rework by preventing information loss when metadata and rules are translated back and forth from specification to implementation
For Directors/Vice Presidents of Data Warehousing
- Enable the business to define data rules quickly to speed response times
- Instill business confidence in the quality of data in the data warehouse
- Stop misinterpretation of data rules between the business and IT
- Keep information from being lost as it travels from analyst specification to data warehouse developer implementation
For Directors/Vice Presidents of IT Operations
- Reduce the cost and complexity of maintaining and administering systems by using a single platform and single set of tools across departments and projects
- Easily maintain data quality consistently across business processes
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“Informatica Data Quality 9.0 lowers the language barrier between business and IT, a key requirement for a data-driven enterprise. This creates opportunities for new ways to collaboratively edit and review exception and duplicate records. Collaboration between the business and IT in the ongoing data cleansing process is critical for success.”
Kimmo Kontra
Manager, Information Management Services, Accenture |
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“At Boston Scientific, we help clinicians improve patients’ lives by delivering innovative medical technologies that lead the world in quality, reliability and efficacy. The availability of trusted and timely information is thus foundational to our mission of ‘Delivering What’s Next’ in less-invasive therapies. We are excited about the capabilities of Informatica 9 as it enables IT and the business to share the responsibility for data quality and data governance, and increase confidence and trust in enterprise data. We’re interested in lowering costs and the time to deliver, while meeting our SLAs and compliance requirements.”
Kristopher Anderson
Senior Software Developer, Boston Scientific |
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“With Informatica 9, making critical business information available as a service in a timely and trustworthy manner, has never been so easy. Integration of all data, be it master data, transaction data, or technical configuration data can be standardized with a single and versatile data integration platform -- on premise or on the cloud. With a single data integration platform, we will be able to receive and deliver data immediately to all internal applications and external suppliers and partners, the way it is needed -- virtual or physical data integration -- and when it is needed without rebuilding the logic. We can now unify data virtualization, Web services, batch, CDC and messaging with comprehensive data services and expect to reduce development and maintenance cost in providing full end-to-end visibility.”
William El Kaim
Lead IT Architect, Global Products IT Development, Carlson Wagonlit Travel |
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“By introducing the 360-degree view of our customers and providing clean, trusted data in near real-time, Informatica is helping KPN raise the bar in terms of customer satisfaction, target customers with compelling cross-sell and up-sell opportunities, and reduce marketing and sales time to market. With Informatica 9, KPN expects to increase time-to-delivery by 25%, increase customer satisfaction by 25% and reduce average call handling time by 10% in addition to an increase in customer retention and savings in call center costs.”
Thomas Reichel
Senior IT Architect, KPN |
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“Access to timely, relevant, and trusted data is extremely important to Nike’s business. We are very excited about the new and versatile capabilities of Informatica 9 and the continued business value that Nike realizes from Informatica technology.”
Steve J. Dennis
Director, Integration Competency Center, Nike |