With innovative capabilities in business-IT collaboration, pervasive data quality, and SOA-based data services, Informatica 9 is a revolutionary data integration platform that is designed to transform your company into a
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Accenture
“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


BMC Software
“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


Boston Scientific
“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


Carlson Wagonlit Travel
“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


fiserv
“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


Gfk
“Customer retention issues and the need for more detailed reports were the inspiration for our original Informatica Data Quality deployment. With its latest release, Informatica will spearhead pervasive data quality, enabling business users, data stewards, analysts and developers, to participate in data quality processes and support their specific tasks, which in turn will help GfK to capture, service and retain customers even more effectively.”
Fabrice Benault
CIO, GfK


Humberside Police
“Informatica Developer 9.0 is full of new features include unified profiling and cleansing, mid-stream profiling, new and extended data quality transforms and full support for building and re-using data quality rules across multiple projects.”
Mark Lancaster
Information Standards Manager, Information Services Branch,
Humberside Police


KPN
“Once again Informatica has moved the market forward with yet another industry-first data integration solution. Informatica 9 gives KPN a single platform and leverages a common set of skills so we can rapidly build data services for key data assets such as customers used across many of our applications. By building our business around a single, unified view of each customer relationship, KPN is uniquely equipped to target and service more customers.”
Thomas Reichel
Senior IT Architect, KPN


LinkShare
“LinkShare continues its drive to become a data driven organization. Informatica 9 is a significant advance for companies like ours: the SOA-based data services functionality will power a unified platform LinkShare will use to deliver high-quality, relevant data to all our users and applications, no matter how they need to receive it. This would be many times more complex to implement and maintain using hand-coded systems, if we were able to do that at all.”
Jonathan Levine
Co-President, LinkShare


McAfee
“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.


Manpower
“By deploying common data quality rules to our business applications and data warehouse with Informatica Data Quality 9, we can proactively identify issues and reduce the cost associated with bad data as well as identify and drive additional revenue opportunities.”
Troy Vant Hul
Manager – Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence for
Manpower’s North American Operations,
Manpower


Nike
“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





Accenture
“With Informatica 9’s innovative technology that allows organizations to apply data quality more broadly, provision data more quickly and improve data governance, our joint clients will be able to make better management decisions and reduce risks while improving collaboration and operational efficiency.”
David Pierce
Senior Executive, Accenture Information Management Services,
Accenture


Adastra
“World-class Business Intelligence, Data Integration, Data Warehousing and Master Data Management have been made more achievable than ever with Informatica 9. With enhanced features that support IT in the delivery of solutions, Informatica 9 will substantially influence the way Adastra provides its clients with relevant, trusted data, and competitive advantage.”

Darren Edery
CEO, Adastra Canada


Aster
“The new business-IT collaboration, pervasive data quality, and SOA-based data services capabilities in Informatica 9 open up a whole new world to Aster Data Systems' clients. The combination of the Informatica 9 Platform with Aster Data’s ‘Massively Parallel Data-Application Server’ will enable customers to handle bigger data volumes and do ultra-fast analysis at massive scales. Our joint clients will benefit from increased time to value, faster analysis and deeper insights from their data assets in many scenarios such as fraud detection, customer intelligence, trending & forecasting, customer personalization and targeting.”

Raj Pai
VP Strategic Alliances, Aster Data Systems


Capgemini
“Using the pervasive data quality capabilities in Informatica 9, Capgemini clients in Germany can build confidence and trust in their application data in all locales using universal connectivity and data quality services. They will also increase productivity by enabling all business stakeholders to participate with role-based tools while simultaneously reducing the reliance on IT.”

Rüdiger Eberlein
Technical Head of CoC Business Intelligence, Capgemini (Germany)


CGI Federal
“The nature of our federal client’s business requires them to meet stringent data quality standards. In addition, because our clients deal with high volume data coming from hundreds of disparate data sources and have hundreds of millions of records to maintain, they need a data quality tool with robust functionality capable of immense speed and scalability. The pervasive data quality cap abilities in Informatica 9 will enable our federal clients to take all their data (structured or unstructured) and turn it into better data that can be used in downstream processes.”

Kamran Kamrani
Director of CGI Federal Business Intelligence Practice, CGI Federal


Collaborative Consulting
“Informatica 9 will help Collaborative Consulting's clients drive performance through business-focused IT solutions. Allowing seamless collaboration between both the business and IT Informatica 9 will help our clients to capture and utilize business intelligence, design optimal IT architectures, integrate data, and accelerate their decision making.”

John Williams
Senior Vice President, Consulting Services, Collaborative Consulting


Daugherty Business Solutions
“Collaboration between Business and IT is the key to successfully leveraging the massive amounts of data gathered in today's corporations. Getting to that point can be complicated and costly. Informatica 9 delivers a single solution that is easy to use for Business and IT, eliminates redundancy and data quality issues, and requires minimal effort to implement and deploy.”

Mike Foster
Line of Service Leader - Business Intelligence,
Daugherty Business Solutions


Deloitte Consulting
“Informatica and Deloitte Consulting LLP share a common mission to deliver value to our clients. We have combined our depth and breadth of advisory and implementation related consulting services experience with the next-generation data integration technologies in the Informatica 9 Platform to develop services designed to help our shared clients in their efforts to rapidly uncover new markets, target new customers, and eliminate costly operational errors and delays.”

Rich Cohen
Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP


e2e Analytix
“The combination of Informatica 9, and it’s powerful new Data Quality and SOA capabilities, with e2e’s successful implementation track record will help us to empower a larger community of business users and marks a new milestone in our already successful 10 year partnership with Informatica.”

Deepak Vashist
Vice President, Business Development, e2e Analytix


Edgewater Technology
“High quality data has a huge impact on the successful implementation and adoption of any Enterprise Information Management (EIM) project and should not be underestimated. Edgewater will leverage the Informatica 9 pervasive data quality tool set to create actionable information that will help mitigate risk and contribute to project success. The powerful functionality being introduced in Informatica 9, such as Web-based scorecards, will accelerate business-driven data quality improvements by identifying, prioritizing and tracking the data quality issues which are costing money.”

Kenneth Parks
Director of Consulting, Edgewater Technology, Inc.


Endeca
“Across the enterprise, Endeca’s search applications and Informatica 9 SOA-based data services will help the world’s leading companies leverage their information assets to grow revenues, improve profitability, and increase customer loyalty. Business professionals and IT groups alike increasingly look for applications that create a single view of information across a broad variety of relevant sources. With the launch of Informatica 9, Endeca and Informatica will accelerate the development and adoption of applications that blend structured and unstructured information from databases, warehouses, and enterprise business systems with content from product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise content management (ECM) systems to improve daily decision-making.”

Jason Purcell
Senior Vice president of Marketing and Product Management, Endeca


Grant Thornton
“As a leading business intelligence solutions provider, one of Grant Thornton’s greatest challenges is bridging the gap between the users who understand the business best and the developers who construct their solutions. We are excited to see that Informatica 9 addresses this need and believe it ultimately will result in more accurate requirements, more rapid deployments, and greater satisfaction for both users and developers. The new offerings and functionality around data integration and data quality will add significant value to Grant Thornton’s service delivery to our clients in the public sector with emerging needs to pull together a variety of information for transparency purposes.”

Shobhik Chaudhuri
Partner, Grant Thornton LLP


Greenplum
“The combination of Greenplum and Informatica 9 will ensure clients benefit from even faster, more flexible access to all their data for business intelligence and analytics. In particular, the new SOA-based data services capabilities in Informatica 9 will enable Greenplum customers to respond to new and changing needs for data now, immediately delivering the data in the way they need it for increased business agility, instead of waiting weeks or months.”

Scott Yara
President, Greenplum


Headstrong
“Improving the quality of reference data –both counterparty and financial instrument related - is a critical activity in the life-cycle of building a ‘golden copy’ of data from multiple sources. To accomplish this, most of our clients in the securities industry implement elaborate manual processes, establish check-points using excel sheets, build simple utilities, or have a team of dedicated business analysts monitoring data quality. Headstrong sees the Informatica 9 toolset as a much needed enabler to building rules and checks in the data loading process itself. This should significantly streamline data quality issues and bring immediate productivity gains to our customers.”

Acky Kamdar
Managing Director, Reference Data Practice, Headstrong


Highpoint
“Our clients are grappling with the realities of meeting the latest HIPAA X12 5010 standards, driving collaborative efficiencies in adjudicating claims, and delivering pervasive data quality through their constituencies. Whether they be providers, electronic clearing houses, or payers, Informatica 9 provides a base from which we believe great things will happen with our customers.”

Chris Colapietro
Vice President, Strategy, Highpoint Solutions


HP
“Our customers look to gain competitive advantage through timely, accurate and more informed business decisions. The combination of HP Business Intelligence Solutions and the Informatica 9 platform provides that competitive edge by improving collaboration between IT and business users, and speeding access to accurate, trusted data through governed data services.”

Giuliano Di Vitantonio
Head of Marketing and Alliances, Business Intelligence Solutions, HP


Information Control Corporation
“The true value of business intelligence is enabling clients to not only contain costs, but increase revenue stream. The pervasive data quality functionality of Informatica 9 will help ICC’s clients generate real dollar savings by providing the right tools to support all stakeholders who need to be involved in data quality processes. ICC clients are finding great value in migrating established applications to Informatica 9 to dramatically advance their business processes related to revenue generation.”

Jim Gallo
BI Partner Channels, Information Control Corporation


InformationsFabrik
“One of the overriding prioritities for Informationsfabrik is to ensure our clients' data is clean and stays clean. With Informatica 9, pervasive data quality becomes a reality: accurate, trusted data can be applied to all our clients' data, across all of their applications.”

Ingo Meister
CEO, InformationsFabrik


IOLAP
“Ultimately, if data quality is not adequately addressed, the value of the entire Data Warehouse or Business Intelligence solution cannot be fully realized. Since helping iOLAP clients ‘drive higher value’ from their Business Intelligence initiatives is key to our success, we view pervasive data quality and the new tools introduced as part of Informatica 9 as absolutely critical and a game changer for Informatica and our joint clients.”

Pete Dempster
VP, Business Development and Strategy, IOLAP


ISA Consulting
“Informatica’s comprehensive, integrated portfolio of pervasive data quality solutions are integral components of ISA’s end-to-end business intelligence and performance management deployments. Informatica 9 will extend that capability with role-specific tools for all stakeholders, complete support for all data types, and access to any data source and application.”

Lou Polisano
CEO, ISA Consulting


Logan Britton
“Informatica 9 arrives right on time. Now more than ever, with increased focus on regulatory compliance and corporate governance, data quality is a strategic corporate issue for LoganBritton clients. Informatica 9 enables sustainable, pervasive data quality for all business applications and processes, regardless of the type of data, empowering active participation of business owners and developers.”

Tom Quintal
Executive Vice President and COO, LoganBritton, Inc.


MicroStrategy
“MicroStrategy 9 and Informatica 9 are innovative platform technologies that together deliver a full range of capabilities to support greater access to high quality data and enable better decision-making at all levels of an organization. The latest advances in the Informatica platform, combined with the breakthrough performance of MicroStrategy 9, will make it possible for organizations of all sizes to discover new insights, revolutionize the way data is accessed and delivered, and allow end users to make smarter business decisions every day.”

Peng Xiao
Chief Information Officer, MicroStrategy


Myers Holum
“Informatica 9 will dramatically improve our ability to implement Master Data Management (MDM) solutions for our clients. The new SOA based data services will enable us to re-use the same data quality rules and transformations across the many MDM implementation styles needed to solve the complex integration challenges our clients encounter.”

David Chu
CTO, Myers Holum


Netezza
“When paired with the Netezza data warehouse appliance, Informatica 9 forms the foundation for enterprise data warehousing success. The technology that underwrites Informatica 9 is an industry-leading enterprise data integration platform that allows our joint clients' to access, discover and integrate all their data assets without any misunderstanding between business priorities and what IT delivers.”

Matthew Rollender
Director of Strategic and Technology Partnerships, Neteeza


Saama
“Saama has been involved in numerous BI projects across all industry verticals and found that current industry solutions do not effectively address the challenge of data fragmentation. When client’s have a pressing need for quick access to disperate data, we have to work with numerous technologies and products, each with their own approach to data integration. This approach increases the project cost, duration and risk. We are excited about Informatica 9, as it offers a single, tightly integrated solution that can handle any integration scenario and delivers a whole range of reusable data services for any application quickly and in a cost effective manner.”

Murali Pabbisetty
Partner, Saama Technologies, Inc.


Scalable Systems
“The combination of Scalable Systems expertise with Informatica 9 provides a platform for easy access to clean, intuitive data with multi-dimensional views to effectively improve decision-making. This provides our joint clients with an unrivalled process for analyzing market predictability, consumer behavior, hidden patterns in past performance as well as emerging market opportunities and competitive advantages.”

Sam Biswal
CEO, Scalable Systems


SGT
“SGT’s clients are constantly challenged to deliver accurate and reliable information at the right time and place to the right person. As one of Informatica’s premier partners in the Oil and Gas Industry focused on Data Quality we are excited about the release of Informatica 9 and the increased capabilities for driving business intelligence and reliable data quality for our mutual customers, assuring them the ability to make timely and accurate decisions with quality data.”

Kumar Bashyam
CEO, Symcon Global Technologies


Siperian
“A majority of our customers already use Informatica for their data integration and data quality requirements. The new Pervasive Data Quality tools being introduced in Informatica 9, together with Siperian’s MDM Hub, will enable our joint customers to more fully trust and leverage their data for competitive business advantage.”

Jack Nolan
Vice President, Global Alliances, Siperian


Softpath Systems
“Softpath's clients are constantly looking for more efficient tools to rapidly iterate through project cycles and share information faster as part of their business intelligence strategy. Informatica 9 empowers the business to be more self-sufficient and IT to increase its productivity while ensuring business and IT can collaborate on the same data and the same rules. This helps ensure that our joint clients manage the interaction with enterprise information more effectively.”

Ken Norris
VP Sales Operations, Softpath Systems


Teradata
“Informatica 9 allows our joint customers to implement data quality more pervasively in upstream operational systems, thus ensuring optimized, trusted data is available from Teradata to our customers broad scale Business Intelligence community.”

Stephen Brobst,
Chief Technology Officer, Teradata Corporation


The Athene Group
“The powerful new functionality in Informatica 9 will streamline the way the business analyzes customer data, the way it sets up the rules to keep the data clean, and the way it tests those rules. By empowering seamless business and IT communication, Informatica 9 will ultimately help The Athene Group clients to reduce their reliance on IT.”

Sanjeev Kumar
CEO, The Athene Group


Trident Technologies
“Trident clients want to fix data quality faster, across all applications, and across all geographies. The pervasive data quality solution in Informatica 9 proactively cleanses the data for all applications and keeps it clean; it enables the business to share the responsibility for data quality and data governance; and it allows business and IT to quickly iterate through project cycles and share information faster. The pervasive data quality capabilities in Informatica 9 will increase the confidence and trust Trident and Informatica clients have in their enterprise data.”

Suzanne Arroyo
President and CEO, Trident Technologies


Trinus Corporation
“Informatica 9 takes away the language and collaboration barriers Trinus' clients experience between the business teams who understand and define the business requirements for data, and the IT team responsible for technical deployment. Resulting in fewer delays, disconnect or data integration disasters.”

Sanjay Kucheria
CEO, Trinus Corporation


Trident Technologies
“As a partner since 1999, Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP) is excited about Informatica 9 as it enables in depth integration between business users and IT. By using a common integrated toolset, we now have the ability to collaborate more effectively on our projects. And the flexible views we can create to access the metadata allows us to setup an environment that works for all types of users. This provides a powerful means to enable Data Governance. We are excited about the opportunity this presents to our customers, in both the business and IT communities.”

David Knoll
Vice President Delivery Services, VIP


Wipro
“Informatica 9's unique approach to SOA-based data services will enable a new set of data-driven solutions for our clients. As one of the leading Information Management service providers we have delivered complex data integration solutions on Informatica platform to our global clients. This new product will help implement the necessary controls and deliver the long-desired value of an SOA architecture, maximizing our customers ability to compete successfully based on data driven decisions.”

Srini Pallia
Senior VP & Global Head, Business Technology Services,
Wipro Technologies


Zyme Solutions
“Informatica 9 will enable us to increase the capabilities of channel data integrity platform, and enable Zyme clients to achieve greater efficiencies in their business processes. With the pervasive data quality capabilities in Informatica 9, our clients will be able to focus their attention on making better business decisions with good data, in a timely manner.”

Ted Dimbero
Senior Vice-President Operations, Zyme Solutions

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