Informatica Innovation Awards



Please contact
Stephanie Roodhouse
with any of your questions.

2009 Innovation Awards


Call for Nominations


Has your organization realized significant business benefits with its data integration platform?
Have you achieved critical objectives with your technology infrastructure?
Do you know a team that has?
Nominate them. Nominate yourself.

The Tenth Annual Innovation Awards

Since 2000, Informatica has presented Innovation Awards to data integration professionals like you. The panel of judges consists of industry experts and Informatica technology leaders. The judges review the accomplishments of the nominees who have demonstrated leadership in using Informatica solutions to drive innovation and business success.

Nominate your own innovative Informatica-powered solution or a colleague’s.

To be considered for this year’s awards, please complete and submit this form no later than March 13, 2009. If you have any questions about the form or the awards, please contact Stephanie Roodhouse.

Award Categories

The judges will select winners in the following eight categories from nominees who used technology in innovative ways to meet business objectives.

  1. Enabling better decision making by driving business intelligence
  2. Delivering trusted information to drive data governance and reduce risk
  3. Accelerating shareholder value in mergers and acquisitions
  4. Driving operational excellence by outsourcing noncore functions, modernizing the business, or reducing IT costs
  5. Improving customer information to enhance customer service or increase customer revenue
  6. Strengthening partner network effectiveness
  7. Fortifying overall operations with global data quality
  8. Overall Award: A Strategic Approach to Data Assets

Note: An asterisk(*) indicates a required field.

*Name of Nominee's/Customer’s Company:

*Describe Nominee's company and its business (100 words or less):

Nominee’s vertical industry:
Energy & Utilities
Financial Services
Government and Public Sector
Healthcare
Life Sciences
Manufacturing		 Retail
Services
Telecommunications
Transportation & Distribution
Other:


*The company being nominated will be willing to participate in an award press release:
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*The company being nominated will be willing to participate in media interviews:
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*The company being nominated will be willing to participate in a success story:
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Contact at Nominee's Company

The nominee must be the company that is using the solution.

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Contact at Partner’s Company

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*Challenge:
Please describe the business problem(s) that the company needed to address or solve.
*Solution:
Please describe what was implemented. What does it do for the company?
Was the solution implemented in any innovative ways?

For which award category (categories) does this nomination apply?

Award Categories

Enabling Better Decision Making by Driving Business Intelligence
Delivering Trusted Information to Drive Data Governance and Reduce Risk
Accelerating Shareholder Value in Mergers and Acquisitions
Driving Operational Excellence by Outsourcing Noncore Functions, Modernizing the Business, or Reducing IT Costs


Improving Customer Information to Enhance Customer Service or Increase Customer Revenue

Strengthening Partner Network Effectiveness

Fortifying Overall Operations with Global Data Quality
Best of the Best: A Strategic Approach to Data Integration
Technology:
Which technologies were used? Please name the specific products and features used in implementing this project (e.g., PowerCenter 8.6). List the features that were critical and why (e.g., change data capture, 64-bit support, grid, Linux portability). Did developers reduce time to results through improved productivity?


Objectives:
What organizational objectives were met as a result, including high-level corporate objectives as well as intermediary objectives? For example, improved access or quality of product data might lead to quicker time to market, which can result in higher revenues or earlier realization of revenues. Improved access to or quality of customer data may reduce average call time in the support hub; this may lead to greater opportunity to up-sell and cross-sell.


Benefits:
What business and technical objectives were met? Please describe the benefits achieved through this project's implementation, including the business and technical goals the company set out to achieve. For example, how did it increase revenues or decrease spending? Did it streamline the supply chain process? Did it simplify the merger of two companies? What problems did the project solve for the company? What advantages does it offer?

Metrics:
Please quantify the benefits, preferably in financial terms, but also perhaps in percentages (e.g., reduced time to market by 30 percent).

Partner Role:
If the implementation included expert advice or consultation via a partner, please describe the role that partner played in the project. Did the partner provide strategic advisement on project planning? Was the partner involved in a more hands-on manner throughout the implementation process? What type of expertise did the partner bring to the project?