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Innovation Awards Winner & FinalistsThe best in the industry used Informatica and partner technologies to gain an edge.
Hear from the Innovation Award winners directly, by clicking on the video links below. Please know that you will need to provide the post-conference user name and password to view each of these videos. This user name and password was sent to all Informatica World 2008 attendees on June 23, 2008. If you have any questions, please email us at iw2008@informatica.com. Innovation Award Finalists
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Hear from the finalists and get a taste of some of their stories now:
ACH Food Companies with Informatica Professional Services
”Growth and acquisition has demanded that we remain flexible. At the core of that is our technology platform. Using Informatica’s technology and Velocity Methodology, we converted customer, vendor, and material data to SAP and consolidated the customer data base. At the same time, we cleansed the data – all within six months. As a result, we have streamlined our processes and improved the efficiency of conducting business with our partners.”Ahold Netherlands
“Our platform is a comprehensive information environment covering the total retail value chain, supporting our decision-making and analytical processes. We call it Pallas for Pallas Athena, the goddess of wisdom. We use Informatica PowerCenter, Metadata Manager, and Workflow Manager to integrate data from over 90 different sources. Among others it includes POS and stock data, which are loaded in real time – about 1.5 billion records a week. Thanks to rapid availability of information and a high degree of detail, this platform supports every aspect of the business and is used by individuals at all levels – from the shop floors, to business partners, to the board. In addition, over 30,000 customers access the data warehouse weekly.”-Egbert Dijkstra, Global Director of Business Intelligence, Ahold Netherlands
AutoTrader.com
“The use of Informatica to load our customer data into the customer master was critical to the success of our MDM project to get the data clean and keep it clean. We were able to extract data from multiple sources, standardize the data, de-dupe the data, and load it into our MDM system. We were able to encode complex business rules into the Informatica code to ensure we entered only valid, real, and unique customer records. Informatica enabled the team to integrate with our data quality tool to re-use existing cleansing rules which meant more efficiency. Having a clean set of customer data in our MDM is important to us to reduce costs, make our employees more efficient and effective, and provide better customer satisfaction.”- Rhonda Freeman PhD, MDM Delivery Manager, AutoTrader.com
Bank of America with Informatica Professional Services
"Banking regulations require that we institute safeguards to prevent Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, inclusive of collecting and verifying customer information. We utilize Informatica to test, and identify potential customer data "logical" defects. The ensuing analysis and repair of these defects helps to ensure a high customer data quality standard, which is critical for use in our detection and investigation processes." - Mike Bassett, VP; Senior AML Manager, Global Anti-Money Laundering, Bank of America
Blum Capital Partners L.P.
“Informatica’s Data Integration Power Pack with the Real Time Option allows us to build real-time web service integration between Salesforce.com, Reuters information service and our internal systems. It allows us to automatically download key information on companies of interest from multiple sources into a single user interface. As a result, our investment professionals can access the information that they require whenever and wherever they need it. We believe that the automatic population of data via integration is a key driver for higher user adoption for any CRM solution and therefore our return on investment is increased for our whole application infrastructure.” - Rodric O’Connor, CTO, Blum Capital Partners L.P.“The business side of an organization’s technology initiatives is not always recognized by technology companies. But the link between Informatica technology and business value is crystal clear. The Informatica Innovation Awards acknowledge that link. We’re honored to be part of it. “
- Rodric O’Connor, CTO, Blum Capital Partners L.P.
Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages with Informatica Professional Services
“The platform we built with Informatica sets us up for future growth. It handles both operational data as well as business intelligence. What that allows us to do in our business intelligence platform is to see a holistic view of all our enterprise data.” -Cindy Reid, Master Data Harmonization Manager, Cadbury Schweppes Americas BeveragesD&B with Wipro
“Our center of excellence offers a shared SOA based environment for data integration and transformation with reusable, modularized components and services. It helps keep our teams coordinated - with standards, best practices, and compliance to process - as we build toward the corporate vision and stay on-par with the industry.”- Peter Kinkel, Senior Development Leader, D&B
“Our role in establishing D&B’s center of excellence has been to analyze, implement, and stabilize new processes. Informatica’s technology and our proprietary SOA based framework have offered the flexibility and stability to implement this shared vision with our client.”
- Keshav Vadrevu, Data Integration Architect, Wipro
Dell Computer with Informatica Professional Services and TeamDNA
“The move to standardize on Informatica as our data integration platform is critical to our goal to reduce our total cost of ownership with a consequential higher ROI. In addition, we are establishing a global view of our data as a true information asset, which wasn’t previously available. That asset is clean data which gives us greater confidence in making decisions when the data that drives those decisions is timely, available and reliable.” - Timothy Leonard, Senior Manager, Dell Computer
Deutsche Post
"In light of growing globalization and increasing competition in the global market, Deutsche Post has expanded its operation around the globe with more than 120 acquisitions and today generates approximately half of its sales abroad. Many other companies grow by acquisitions as well, and the organization that assimilates their acquisitions quickest will have an advantage over its competitors. Informatica provides us the platform that has given us this advantage in the MAIL division, and we’re pleased they have acknowledged our work with this nomination."- Ante Trbara, Program Manager DWH, Deutsche Post
Electronic Arts
“With Informatica, we now have a 360 degree view of key business areas such as sales, revenue recognition, and demand planning. As a result, we have more accurate forecasting that has delivered millions of dollars to the bottom line for both ourselves and our retail customers. More accurate sales predictions allow us to control inventories and reduce markdown dollars, carrying costs, and scrap, while at the same time insuring better shelf positions. Demand planners receive their reports early in the morning, critical to effective planning efforts. With these capabilities, we have set ourselves apart from our competition as a premier vendor and are moving closer to vendor managed inventory.”-Rajesh Gupta, PMP, Business Intelligence and Data Services, Electronic Arts“Companies who are leaders and want to remain leaders must maintain flexibility and adaptability throughout the enterprise, including in their technology platform. That’s why we turned to Informatica – to keep us nimble in the way we apply technology to our business initiatives. We’re delighted that Informatica has chosen to acknowledge us with the Innovation Awards.”
-Rajesh Gupta, PMP, Business Intelligence and Data Services, Electronic Arts
Ellie Mae with Informatica Professional Services
“With Informatica, we now have a long-term data integration strategy in terms of business efficiency and flexibility as well as improved abilities to serve our customers. As a result, we can work more effectively with our customers for mutual business growth. The fundamental power of what Informatica gives us is consistency in our data combined with the dynamic and seamless integration of data that’s critical to our business. It’s satisfying to be nominated for this award for this work.”- Chris Lin, VP of Infrastructure & eCommerce, Ellie Mae
Fortis
"In order to optimize decision making within Fortis, to the ultimate benefit of all our clients, we have automated insourcing with an integrated data validation. This enables Fortis to obtain immediate and high level data quality."-Rik Crab, Program Director, Fortis
GE Money with Oakton Australia
“Regulatory requirements and the need to meet competitive margins demand that we manage our customer data well. But we are also driven by our self-imposed high standards of customer service. Ensuring good quality and superior management of our customer data is a corporate mandate. With Informatica, we have built a platform that can identify the right data, access it, ensure its quality, and deliver it on-demand. In addition, preserving the quality of our data is an on going effort. So when our customers access their data on line, they can count on it being correct.”
- Ben Smillie, Senior Solutions Architect, GE Money
“The platform we built with GE Money gives them a strategic advantage. We have built our practice around the strategic value that Informatica's flexible data integration technology offers organizations, such as reducing cost and complexity through re-use and enhancing the overall customer experience. That is why the Innovation Awards carry such weight with us.”
-Brad Allen, Enterprise Client Manager, Oakton Australia
KPN with Informatica Professional Services
“Informatica products and services have been critical to driving shareholder value through improved customer service. To realize our Strategic Innovation goals, we built our Customer Data Cleansing platform with Informatica; it gives us real-time access and cleansing of our customer data. Our nomination for an Innovation Award signifies an industry acknowledgement of the competitive advantage this project has brought to KPN.”- Jan Muchez, CIO, KPN
LinkShare Corporation
"To fuel the long-term growth of the largest online pay-per-action marketing network, we had to build an infrastructure powerful, flexible and scalable enough to handle more advertisers, more publishers, more data, and more combinations and types of information. Informatica is the mission critical platform that fuels our systems with information at the speed of our business, for our day to day operations." - Jonathan Levine, CTO, LinkShare CorporatioOi with Accenture & Teradata
"Using Informatica PowerCenter Pushdown Optimization with Teradata allowed us to combine wireline and wireless information into an enterprise data warehouse, achieving the SLA established by our users. The daily load time for the EDW was decreased in 50 percent, from twelve hours to six. The ultimate result will be a unified view of our customers. And using PowerExchange CDC for ADABAS allowed us to accomplish a very tight timeframe to deliver customer information to the fraud agency (1/8 of the time of the standard solution), which maintains OI's image as the leader in innovation and response for its clients. These would not have been possible without the significant performance capabilities offered by the Informatica and Teradata platforms." - Vera Helena de Ávila Duarte, IT - Operations and Architecture Manager, Oi
SEI
“If our Global Wealth Management Platform was not operational, it would be extremely significant for us. Without Informatica's right-time data integration capabilities, we would have had to create multiple decentralized integration mechanisms, which would have added additional overhead and risk. The PowerExchange CDC functionality Informatica provides allows us to remain a 24 x 7 platform. It ultimately allows us faster time to market with fewer bugs.”- Robert Gallagher, Senior Technical Lead, Global Wealth Management Platform, SEI
T. Rowe Price with Informatica Professional Services
"T. Rowe Price's Technology strategic objective was to leverage our people, processes, and technologies to deliver the information our business partners require to be successful. We established an Integration Competency Center (ICC) leveraging Informatica as our enterprise data integration solution for both operational and analytical data needs. It has yielded significant labor savings in new development and application maintenance while continuing to save on software and hardware costs for new integration projects. Informatica and our ICC represent a strategic technology framework for T. Rowe Price and we continue to benefit from the ongoing cost savings for the business putting T. Rowe Price in a better position to handle and support business for the future."- Gary Reicher, VP Database Services and Architecture, T. Rowe Price
Virgin Media
"There's only one way to compete effectively in the communications/entertainment industry - customer service, outrageously fine customer service, supported by real-time access to customer data every second of every day. And that data has to be up to date. In spite of the merger of three companies over a brief period, that's what we promise our customers. This nomination acknowledges how much what we've accomplished means for Virgin Media and how much it means for our customers."- Paul Froggatt, Information Management Manager, Virgin Media
