SOA-Based Data Services

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It’s time to free your data from its silos. Cut out the complexity. Lower costs. Respond quickly. Change easily. Deliver flawlessly.

It’s time for Informatica 9.

Informatica 9 empowers your IT organization to find, access, and understand your data—no matter how much there is, where it is, or what form it’s in. Then, using a single platform and a single set of skills, tools, and rules, your IT organization can build data services once and deploy them immediately across many applications and projects.

The innovative SOA-based data services capabilities of Informatica 9 allow IT organizations to:

Find, access, and deliver all your data—any way, any time, any place
Provision reusable data services, and insulate applications from needing to know how those services are technically implemented “under the covers”
Meet your service-level agreements (SLAs) and compliance requirements

“When someone or other thought up SOA as a method for untangling the spaghetti of inter-communicating applications they forgot about the hairball that involves providing data to those selfsame applications (now web services). What you need is the same level of abstraction about data as you do with SOA. This is what Informatica 9 provides, allowing you not just to reuse data services in different contexts but also isolating applications from data changes, thereby reducing development and maintenance costs.”

Philip Howard
Research Director, Bloor

Universal Data Discovery Services
Quit searching endlessly for the data you need to get the job done. Informatica 9 provides immediate access to the data you need through a comprehensive information catalog and integrated profiling services. Your IT organization can quickly find and understand all data—regardless of its type or location. Identifying data issues early on helps you accurately scope data integration projects.

Multimodal Data Provisioning Services
Execute a wide range of data services on a single, unified platform. Access, cleanse, transform, and deliver trusted data at any latency, in any protocol and shape, to any location—in different applications, in your partners’ systems, or even in the cloud. Informatica 9 uses a model-driven approach for developing, managing, and maintaining data services. Build a data service once and deploy it to many consuming applications, but insulate them from changes in the underlying data sources.

Policy-Based Data Services Governance
Declare and manage all data services policies—including those for data quality, freshness, and privacy—from one, central place. With Informatica 9, your IT organization can meet your data services’ SLAs and compliance requirements while keeping maintenance costs low and data quality levels high.

For Business Executives/Sponsors

Get the data you need faster—quit waiting weeks or months for the trusted data you need to make critical operational and strategic decisions
Minimize risk by keeping direct control of all your data, regardless of where it resides—across the enterprise, with your business partners, or in the cloud

For CIOs

Increase efficiency and productivity by enabling your IT organization to find, access, and understand any and all data and to reuse tools, skills, and rules across multiple applications and projects
Adapt quickly to changing business requirements by using a model-driven approach to manage and provision data
Drastically cut costs and speed time to value by building data services once and immediately deploying them for multiple projects
Simplify and modernize your IT infrastructure by standardizing on a single, unified platform

For Enterprise Architects

Reuse data models, data integration and data quality services, and leverage a standards-based data abstraction layer to boost efficiency and keep costs down
Deploy projects with speed and accuracy by enabling all application stakeholders to view data rules or metadata
Establish and enforce data governance policies and SLAs for data quality, privacy, and freshness
Eliminate redundant tools, slash license and maintenance costs, and share skills and knowledge across projects—by standardizing on a single platform

For Directors/Vice Presidents of Enterprise Applications

Implement applications faster and at lower costs by building data rules once, managing them centrally, and deploying services in any application via a services architecture
Accurately scope data integration projects by empowering IT developers to find the data they need and understand its quality and the impact of changes to other applications
Drastically reduce the costs of change and maintenance by insulating applications from underlying data source changes
Minimize the risk of application implementations and upgrades—and realize value from them faster—by providing consistent, accurate, and complete data across all enterprise applications

For Directors/Vice Presidents of Data Warehousing

Quickly source, transform, and deliver data to meet the decision support needs of the business
Respond immediately to business needs by rapidly adding new, transient, or operational data sources to the data warehouse or modifying existing ones
Avoid excess storage and license costs by safely decommissioning department data marts
Prevent duplicate and bad data from entering the data warehouse

For Directors/Vice Presidents of IT Operations

Lower the cost and complexity of maintaining and administering systems by using a single platform and single set of data integration and data quality tools across departments and projects
Minimize the risk of system downtime/outages by relying on a data integration platform proven to handle mission-critical operations
Reduce project risks and the cost of change by insulating consuming applications from changes in the data

	“At BMC Software, we believe that a business thrives when IT runs smarter, faster and stronger. Informatica 9 delivers timely access to an accurate and consistent 360 degree view of all our customer data. Informatica Data Services provides the ideal service-oriented data integration platform to fit our enterprise architecture strategy by delivering data as a service,” said Jeffrey Gheen, BMC Software’s senior manager for business analytics. “We can also leverage a data abstraction layer to eliminate point-to-point integrations, which can result in significant cost savings through better management and control.” Jeffrey Gheen Senior Manager, Business Analytics, BMC Software
	“Being one of the largest and most diversified HMOs in the Midwest, we at Dean Health Plan deal with numerous applications, business partners and data sources on a daily basis. Since we continuously strive to improve our service, we are always interested in looking at ways to reduce the time it takes to process a claim. A key requirement to enable faster processing of claims is the consistent, accurate and timely availability of all our operational data - provider data, membership data and claims data - across all our internal and external systems. Informatica 9 offers a promising service-oriented data integration approach to significantly reduce the complexity of our underlying systems and also increase time-to-delivery of a trusted single-view of all our operational data, to meet our business goals.” Jenny Mangasarian Project Manager, Dean Health Plan
	“Fiserv is a complex organization with many strategies driven by a pervasive demand for information across a multitude of data sources. As one of the IT teams responsible for supporting these strategic efforts we are constantly facing the challenge of how to deliver value while managing expenditures associated with people, process, and technology. Informatica 9 is a product that positions us for success through a single platform offering for all our data integration needs with reusable data services that will enhance our ability to operate more efficiently. The tight integration of solutions in Informatica 9 equips Fiserv with timely and trusted data to not only meet industry requirements, but also to drive emerging market strategies while leveraging Fiserv competencies.” Mark Hendrickson Manager, Data Warehouse Services, Depository Institution Services, Fiserv
	“At KPN, our developers spend a lot of time trying to find the data they need, understanding the quality of the data, and the impact of changes to other applications. Further, there is no efficient way to leverage our static data models due to the transient nature of our data. Informatica Data Services provides the necessary role-based tools for the creation of a dynamic data abstraction layer that will allow our users to proactively and iteratively collaborate in the profiling and cleansing of data across our heterogeneous sources, and build sophisticated and reusable data services once and deploy them in multiple ways.” Thomas Reichel Senior IT Architect, KPN
	“LinkShare is continuously innovating to extend and improve the services we provide to our customers. We are eager to use Informatica Data Services's model-driven approach to managing and provisioning data services. We anticipate that this approach allow us to extensively reuse data services, helping us deliver higher-quality projects faster. Model-driven data services also insulate our applications from data changes, reducing execution risk, minimizing maintenance costs and allowing us to become more agile.” Jonathan Levine Co-President, LinkShare
	“Typically, the process of adding new data sources or including rapidly changing data into data warehouse is a complex process. We are happy to learn that Informatica 9 and Informatica Data Services would provide this flexibility and enable the use of a familiar platform to build virtual views and fetch or deliver data at any speed - batch, near real-time or real-time - or way - SQL or Web services - to all downstream applications. This can result in significant time and cost savings.” Maulik Shukla Data Warehouse Manager, McAfee, Inc.
	“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