Humberside Police Cleans Up Crime-Fighting Data With Informatica Data Quality

Major United Kingdom police force leverages Informatica to implement data cleansing and enrichment strategy

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,  November 7, 2006—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that Humberside Police has implemented the Informatica Data Quality solution to monitor, cleanse and enrich crime-fighting data within the organization. By using Informatica Data Quality, Humberside Police has aligned its data to internal and external quality standards while dramatically improving the effectiveness of key crime and intelligence information systems.

“We had identified poor data quality and consistency as major inhibitors to the successful use of technology in crime prevention and intelligence,” said Graham Dawson, Head of Information Services, Humberside Police. “With Informatica Data Quality we were very quickly able to establish just how deep our data quality problems were and to immediately set about addressing them with the relevant business system owners.”

Data quality is central to the implementation of several key IT initiatives across England and Wales aimed at enhancing police efficiency in the coming years: including IMPACT, the proposed program for information sharing, analysis, briefing, investigation, and crime recording; CRISP, the Cross Region Information Sharing Project due to be delivered in summer 2007; MOPI, the Management of Police Information; and integration of criminal justice IT systems. Humberside Police is one of the first police forces in the United Kingdom to implement a data quality program based on Informatica Data Quality.

“Poor data quality is a problem for all organizations that depend on multiple information systems,” said Garry Moroney, general manager, Informatica Data Quality Division. “There are 43 police forces in England and Wales and most, like Humberside Police, have a number of different systems for tracking crime and intelligence information. This proliferation of information across systems makes it difficult for each force to get a single complete view of crime and intelligence data in its own area, let alone throughout England and Wales.”

Humberside as a force covers a wide geographic area, including the districts of North-East Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire, along with the urban area of Kingston-upon-Hull. In a program supported by Unisys and Explorer (UK), Informatica Data Quality provides the police force with a powerful platform for analyzing, standardizing and enhancing data across the multiple crime, nominal and vehicle systems it uses. In addition, the cross-system fuzzy matching capabilities of Informatica Data Quality enables police to quickly identify links between known-individuals and crimes, and between incidents recorded in different systems. These links were previously difficult to establish because of poor data quality and a lack of a unified data management standards.

Informatica Data Quality enables organizations to design, deploy and manage distributed data quality strategies. It works across all data types and empowers non-technical users to tackle complex data quality tasks and make their data more accurate and usable.

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