Learn how data warehouse archiving can help your IT organization better manage data growth in data warehouses, enhancing their performance while reducing storage costs.

This white paper examines how the implementation of Informatica’s Test Data Management Solution can cut cost and risk from your test and development environments.

Learn how application information lifecycle management (ILM) is a cost-effective, long-term solution for managing data in your Oracle E-Business Suite applications throughout its lifecycle—from development, test, production, and archive to retirement.

Learn the ten steps your IT organization should follow when implementing a data archiving solution. This paper outlines the challenges of managing data growth in IBM DB2 on mainframe systems and the limitations of conventional solutions.

See how creating subsets instead of using full production copies can reduce costs for your IT department. Executing security measures to protect confidential information in a test and development environment also mitigates compliance risks.

Learn best practices for creating data privacy procedures in nonproduction environments including creating a set of policies to classify data types, integrating these policies into business processes, and providing ongoing compliance reviews.

Learn best practices and new technologies that will help you create highly efficient test and development environments. Save time and resources and streamline data provisioning processes to achieve cost savings and better regulatory compliance.

Learn best practices and new technologies that will help you create highly efficient SAP test and development environments. Save time and resources while streamlining data provisioning processes to achieve cost savings and better regulatory compliance.

Learn strategies for retiring legacy applications, making decisions about which applications should be retired, and the seven steps involved in legacy retirement. Discover the advantages of the Informatica solution for application retirement.

Data archiving solutions help IT organizations manage the growth of data volumes while controlling costs. This white paper outlines how to implement a data archiving solution to most effectively manage data throughout its lifecycle.

Learn how application information lifecycle management (ILM) is a cost-effective, long-term solution for managing data in your PeopleSoft applications throughout its lifecycle—from development, test, production, and archive to retirement.

Learn how application information lifecycle management (ILM) is a cost-effective, long-term solution for managing data in your SAP applications throughout its lifecycle—from development, test, production, and archive to retirement.

Learn best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining an operational data integration program. Explore staffing, organizational issues, technical requirements, and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.

This white paper examines the challenges facing the payments industry, the business imperatives banks must undertake in order to survive the changes, and how banks can turn the tide and succeed in this environment.

In this white paper Tana Sabatino, Vallue Consulting Inc., explains how to reduce data complexities and costs while improving communications with distribution channels.

Learn strategies for benefiting from ACORD's IP. This paper explores a company's unique business requirements alongside internal and external influencing factors and offers targeted approaches to using ACORD standards for accomplishing data normalization.

In this white paper, SMS, a leading insurance advisory firm, and Informatica discuss a new approach to managing distribution that can reduce IT complexity, eliminate redundant costs, and improve your operational efficiency.

SMA, a leading insurance advisory firm and Informatica discuss the market conditions that are driving carriers to focus on channel efficiency, and explains the challenges they encounter as a result of IT complexity.

For electronic implementation and development of SEPA solutions, the most significant inhibitors are data translation and transformation. Learn how to streamline this effort with the Informatica SEPA Solution Accelerator.

This white paper explores how companies can use data transformation technology and data management best practices to help solve business issues while meeting the challenges introduced by ACCORD.

Learn about building an effective data governance framework. Understand the key success factors for ensuring that your organization's data is accessible, available, of high quality, consistent, auditable, and secure across the enterprise.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

Learn current data governance approaches and their limitations, key technical requirements for a data integration infrastructure, best practice architectural approaches, and the role of competency centers in managing the data integration infrastructure.

This white paper examines the business advantages of effective metadata management. Learn the role metadata management plays in establishing data governance practices, capitalizing on the value of mergers and acquisitions, and improving business agility.

Learn best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining an operational data integration program. Explore staffing, organizational issues, technical requirements, and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

Learn about the value of Informatica Data Explorer: its ability to quickly analyze multiple source systems and assist the user in scoping the size and complexity of a migration or data integration project.

This white paper examines five common data migration challenges associated with SAP implementations. It discusses the value of using a single, unified enterprise data integration platform to address these challenges.

This white paper examines both the business and technical challenges of migrating off the mainframe. It outlines the seven mainframe migration approaches that IT organizations can use to develop their migration strategies.

Learn best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining an operational data integration program. Explore staffing, organizational issues, technical requirements, and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

Find out the six steps you need to take to achieve continuous good data quality. Learn how to reduce data errors to a manageable level, identify data issues, and minimize the need for manual intervention and adjustments.

Ralph Kimball explains that providing the infrastructure to maintain high-quality data in-house means data owners can quickly achieve benefits, including cost savings, better decision-making, and improved customer service.

Traditional, retroactive data quality approaches are insufficient. Companies need to use a pervasive data quality approach—one that includes all data, in all domains, for all applications. With new technology, pervasive data quality is now possible.

Achieving the high levels of data quality needed for a business to prosper is more than a one-off exercise. Informatica helps organizations manage data quality enterprise-wide. Find out more by downloading data quality white paper.

Learn how Identity Resolution complements and extends the application of data quality and data integration processes into business applications.

This white paper outlines the importance of Master Data Management. Stringent regulation and market competition mean organizations need to establish better controls and consistency of their master data and the business processes for this shared data.

Learn about the value of Informatica Data Explorer: its ability to quickly analyze multiple source systems and assist the user in scoping the size and complexity of a migration or data integration project.

Learn how an Informatica Identity Resolution solution can help your organization uncover and manage potential threats and fraudulent activity by exposing individuals and groups attempting to mask, hide, or misrepresent their identities.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

Learn about the challenges and opportunities of business intelligence (BI), how to define data quality and its impact on the five styles of BI, several data quality management techniques, and how to control and monitor data quality across the enterprise.

Learn how identity resolution can help meet major challenges to successful CDI, including consolidating data from multiple sources, overcoming error, variation and inconsistencies in the data, and shortcomings in staff training.

Learn how the Informatica Platform can help your financial institution reduce the risk of acquiring a money launderer as a new customer, increase detection of money laundering activities in your operations, and meet regulatory reporting requirements.

Convince your management that investing in a data profiling tool is worth it. Learn four methods for building a case for investing in a data profiling tool: Column Method, Project Method, Risk Reduction Method, and Quality Method.

Gain confidence in the quality of your enterprise-wide data. Learn why good data is critical, the factors that compromise data quality, how data integration and data quality strategies can improve data quality, and how the Informatica platform can help.

This white paper reviews how poor data quality impacts both operational activities and strategic initiatives. The process used to assess business impact and justify data quality improvement can be used in turn to monitor ongoing data quality management.

Learn best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining an operational data integration program. Explore staffing, organizational issues, technical requirements, and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.

Overcome the obstacles that keep data quality solutions tactical, departmental, and unsustainable. Learn how to drive pervasive data quality throughout your organization to all stakeholders, projects, domains, applications, and geographies.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

Discover the importance of data quality in today’s business environment. Learn how an organization should tackle a data quality improvement process and where Informatica data quality software solutions fit into that process.

Learn how Informatica technology helps ensures that accurate, consistent, and timely data is delivered to new and existing business systems in support of an overarching Governance, Risk and Compliance strategy.

HP and Informatica teamed up to create a framework for building an enterprise data foundation to drive operational efficiency. Learn about the challenges in managing costs and risks and making a case for Enterprise Information Management (EIM).

Learn about Pervasive BI, the reference architecture, decision repositories, data integration services and decision services for front-line users in this white paper co-aurthored by Teradata, Microstrategy, and Informatica.

Learn how data warehouse archiving can help your IT organization better manage data growth in data warehouses, enhancing their performance while reducing storage costs.

Ralph Kimball proposes a specific architecture for building an integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW). This architecture supports master data management efforts and provides the platform for consistent business analysis across the enterprise.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

Learn about the challenges and opportunities of business intelligence (BI), how to define data quality and its impact on the five styles of BI, several data quality management techniques, and how to control and monitor data quality across the enterprise.

Rethink your approach to data warehousing. Learn how build your data warehouse on a comprehensive, open, and unified data integration platform, speed time to value, and put data integration best practices to work.

Learn best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining an operational data integration program. Explore staffing, organizational issues, technical requirements, and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

Informatica redefines Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) to address a new paradigm that mandates that enterprise data support competitive advantage. Learn why EDW is important, how it’s different, its architectural principles, and the Informatica approach.

Learn how rewiring information helps to unify the back-office and front-line operations for increased agility and productivity, as well as new market insight.

Learn the importance of data integration performance and reliability and how the features and options of PowerCenter can help your IT organization handle increasing data volumes and meet business demands for timely, trusted information.

This white paper explores how companies can use data transformation technology and data management best practices to help solve business issues while meeting the challenges introduced by ACCORD.

Learn how an Informatica Identity Resolution solution can help your organization uncover and manage potential threats and fraudulent activity by exposing individuals and groups attempting to mask, hide, or misrepresent their identities.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

In January 2008, The Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) went live, with most notably the introduction of SEPA Credit Transfers (SCTs). Learn about the fluctuating market and how to get value out of payment infrastructures.

Find out how government agencies worldwide are relying on the robust identity searching and matching capabilities Informatica Identity Resolution to accurately identify taxpayers and improve their tax revenue collection processes.

This white paper examines the business advantages of effective metadata management. Learn the role metadata management plays in establishing data governance practices, capitalizing on the value of mergers and acquisitions, and improving business agility.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

Learn how Informatica technology helps ensures that accurate, consistent, and timely data is delivered to new and existing business systems in support of an overarching Governance, Risk and Compliance strategy.

Learn how to reduce the cost of producing timely and trusted data for Governance, Risk and Compliance while improving business efficiency. Discover how timely, high quality information can satisfy regulatory data audit and documentation requirements.

Learn how an ICC can optimize your IT organization’s existing resources and build on past successes to lower maintenance costs, ensure more stable operations, and respond more quickly to changing business conditions.

Learn how Identity Resolution complements and extends the application of data quality and data integration processes into business applications.

This white paper will help you understand whether your organizational risk can be reduced by integrating identity resolution technology into your operational applications.

Learn how identity resolution can help meet major challenges to successful CDI, including consolidating data from multiple sources, overcoming error, variation and inconsistencies in the data, and shortcomings in staff training.

Find out how government agencies worldwide are relying on the robust identity searching and matching capabilities Informatica Identity Resolution to accurately identify taxpayers and improve their tax revenue collection processes.

This white paper authored by Smallwood Maike examines how insurance organizations can use identity resolution technology to accurately identify “who’s who” within enterprise systems – whether it is policy holders, doctors, claimants, or lawyers.

Learn about improving government service delivery by tapping into the characteristics that are common to successful and ambitious undertakings: inspiration, pragmatism, democratization and volunteerism.

This white paper shows, through research and customer examples, how Identity Resolution's sophisticated engine can answer the critical question of "who's who?"

This informative and educational book shows how identity resolution technology can help you deal with more than 60 issues in order to manage identity data successfully.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

Learn how ICCs are a competitive advantage and deliver greater business value. Understand how to create your own ICC, select a model that meets your needs, and seize the integration advantage for your business.

This white paper will help you understand how to seize the integration advantage by deploying an ICC. You’ll learn the top 10 reasons to establish an ICC and how to get started.

Lean software development is an agile approach that translates Lean manufacturing principles and practices to the software development domain. Learn how Lean principles can be applied in various integration domains.

This white paper examines the business advantages of effective metadata management. Learn the role metadata management plays in establishing data governance practices, capitalizing on the value of mergers and acquisitions, and improving business agility.

Learn best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining an operational data integration program. Explore staffing, organizational issues, technical requirements, and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

Explore the effective use of integration competency centers in medium-size and large organizations and how economic concepts can be applied to achieve breakthrough business results.

Learn how an ICC can optimize your IT organization’s existing resources and build on past successes to lower maintenance costs, ensure more stable operations, and respond more quickly to changing business conditions.

Learn the five golden rules for reducing and optimizing your organization’s KTLO budget. This white paper illustrates how to realign and become more operationally efficient – changes that will yield dramatic improvements.

This white paper outlines the importance of Master Data Management. Stringent regulation and market competition mean organizations need to establish better controls and consistency of their master data and the business processes for this shared data.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

Learn how to leverage your existing IT investments in your MDM program. Identify the challenges you may encounter. Take a phased approach. Determine which technology components you have now, which you’ll need to buy, and which you’ll need to build.

Learn best practices and common pitfalls involved in starting and sustaining an operational data integration program. Explore staffing, organizational issues, technical requirements, and vendor products that apply to operational data integration projects.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

TDWI explores CDI and provides advice on how you can turn your company's data into an organizational asset that can be shared and leveraged across every business within the enterprise.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

This white paper examines the business advantages of effective metadata management. Learn the role metadata management plays in establishing data governance practices, capitalizing on the value of mergers and acquisitions, and improving business agility.

Learn how to leverage your existing IT investments in your MDM program. Identify the challenges you may encounter. Take a phased approach. Determine which technology components you have now, which you’ll need to buy, and which you’ll need to build.

Find out why data matters in acquiring and retaining customers, which rules to use for integrating and managing customer data, and how to evaluate data integration technology to deliver the right customer data to the right people at the right time.

This paper covers strategies for succeeding with the current top five critical initiatives: reducing compliance costs, managing risk, facilitating mergers and acquisitions, delivering a single view of customers, and investing wisely in new technologies.

Learn how an ICC can optimize your IT organization’s existing resources and build on past successes to lower maintenance costs, ensure more stable operations, and respond more quickly to changing business conditions.

Learn the five golden rules for reducing and optimizing your organization’s KTLO budget. This white paper illustrates how to realign and become more operationally efficient – changes that will yield dramatic improvements.

HP and Informatica teamed up to create a framework for building an enterprise data foundation to drive operational efficiency. Learn about the challenges in managing costs and risks and making a case for Enterprise Information Management (EIM).

This white paper explores how the foundation of continuous, event-based data integration—a technology called "change data capture" (or CDC)—allows IT to create business value for organizations both large and small.

David Linthicum explains the challenges of using the wrong data integration tool and failing to take the complexity of its data into account. Learn how to understand your own data integration needs and select the right data integration technology.

Forrester used its rigorous total economic impact methodology to interview seven companies that have standardized their data integration practices on the Informatica Platform and created an Integration Competency Center or Center of Excellence.

This white paper examines the business advantages of effective metadata management. Learn the role metadata management plays in establishing data governance practices, capitalizing on the value of mergers and acquisitions, and improving business agility.

Learn how your IT organization can leverage the power of a sophisticated data services solution to implement an agile enterprise information management (EIM) strategy. Discover how you can maximize business agility with right-time information.

Learn how the right integration method and product can make integrating mainframe data smooth and simple. This white paper discusses critical issues facing mainframe integration and the necessary requirements to help solve these challenges.

This paper is intended for enterprise and data architects, and practitioners interested in gaining insights into metadata-driven data integration solutions.

Learn from customer case scenarios and industry leaders how they used operational data integration to become a Real-Time Enterprise and achieved operational excellence.

Learn the importance of data integration performance and reliability and how the features and options of PowerCenter can help your IT organization handle increasing data volumes and meet business demands for timely, trusted information.

In this survey by Datamonitor, you learn how a data integration platform can help your company realize the full potential of its enterprise applications throughout their life cycle.

This paper provides guidelines for assessing the performance of throughput, scalability, and manageability. It also details the architectural and functional advances incorporated into Informatica PowerCenter.

This white paper explains how the Informatica Platform can position your IT organization to support today's business needs and to prepare for tomorrow's.

Learn how an ICC can optimize your IT organization’s existing resources and build on past successes to lower maintenance costs, ensure more stable operations, and respond more quickly to changing business conditions.

Understand the IT and business drivers behind SOA, the progress made to date, how to take SOA to the next level with service-oriented data integration, the anatomy of service-oriented data integration, and approaches to migrating toward SOA.

David Linthicum explains the challenges of using the wrong data integration tool and failing to take the complexity of its data into account. Learn how to understand your own data integration needs and select the right data integration technology.

Learn how to define, design, and implement SOA-based data services to solve core data integration problems. Find out how use data services to deliver a trusted, timely single view of data and to create a virtual data warehouse for operational BI.

Does your IT infrastructure enable you to quickly find, understand, trust, and deliver data as a service to all applications? Learn how your IT organization can revive and transform your information architecture with Informatica Data Services.

Learn how your IT organization can leverage the power of a sophisticated data services solution to implement an agile enterprise information management (EIM) strategy. Discover how you can maximize business agility with right-time information.

Many organizations don’t realize how important data is in SOA or BPM initiatives and so can’t realize the promise of these projects. Ovum discusses including real-time data integration and data services as part of a successful SOA and BPM strategy.