Single, Unified Platform for Enterprise Data Integration
Assuming a critical role in the enterprise, data integration is making the transition from a siloed activity that rarely crosses departmental lines to a strategic, enterprise-wide IT function. As companies and government organizations of all sizes begin to use Integration Competency Centers (ICCs) to coordinate data integration activities across multiple lines of business, they're quickly realizing that the problem of data fragmentation cannot possibly be solved using siloed, disparate tools.
Only Informatica has designed a single, unified data integration platform to meet the needs of data integration at the enterprise level.
Key Features
Open, Platform-Neutral Architecture Most organizations own and manage a variety of data sources in different applications and operating systems. As such, they need an open, platform-neutral architecture that doesn’t lock them into a specific, single-vendor technology architecture. Only Informatica offers a data integration platform based on an open, platform-neutral architecture.
Delivers return on all technology infrastructure investments—including business process, messaging, portal, packaged application, and database systems
Reduces total cost of ownership with “design once, run anywhere” capabilities
Minimizes risk by eliminating conflicts with third-party software and hardware partners in today’s heterogeneous IT environment
End-to-End, Integrated Data Quality The Informatica platform provides integrated, fully functional data quality capabilities to deliver proactive data quality management, a core component of any data integration initiative. These capabilities leverage the platform’s universal data access, scalability and data services capabilities to support enterprise deployments and meet the needs of the business.
Increases accuracy and value of enterprise data assets
Ensures confidence and trust in data used by the business
Reduces costs by eliminating manual effort and rework
Unparalleled Performance and Scalability The Informatica platform is scalable and high-performing in a wide variety of data integration solutions. In enterprise customer environments and in published industry benchmarks, the platform has proven its ability to effectively handle multi-terabyte-sized data volumes.
Helps organizations to rapidly respond to changing business requirements
Helps organizations cost-effectively grow and handle the resulting increase in data volumes
Readies the platform for mission-critical deployment
Heterogeneous, Enterprise Grid Support The Informatica platform supports heterogeneous grid deployments to make the best use of existing resources. Through adaptive, dynamic load balancing, the platform scales intelligently.
Enables organizations to cost-effectively scale their data integration initiatives through grid computing
Exponentially improves platform performance and reliability when deployed on a grid
Readies the platform for mission-critical deployment
High Availability The Informatica platform has no single points of failure and is resilient to outages of underlying software or hardware components. It also features simple set up and management through a Web-based administration console.
Eliminates all single points of failure, guarding against software or hardware outage
Reduces costs and risks associated data downtime
Readies platform for mission-critical deployment
Interoperability The Informatica platform is built from the ground up on a service-oriented architecture (SOA). Supporting the platform, a native Web services layer provides fine-grained, dynamically scalable Web services to consuming applications.
Helps organizations take advantage of an SOA
Reduces development time and increases IT productivity
Readies the platform for mission-critical deployment
Benefits
Business Users With universal data access, the Informatica platform provides a consistent, accurate view of all enterprise data and delivers that data to the right place at the right time. With a comprehensive view of enterprise data, organizations improve their ability to respond quickly and effectively to changing business requirements. This single, unified data integration platform allows organizations to extend universal data access to all critical data integration activities, including data profiling or cleansing. It also provides a strong foundation for data governance and regulatory compliance by providing the exact same levels of auditability, lineage analysis, and metadata reporting to all data integration activities.
IT Organizations The Informatica platform makes unparalleled performance, scalability, security, and high availability consistently available for the full range of data integration initiatives and enterprise data assets. IT organizations don’t have to rewrite data integration applications to keep up with increasing data volumes and business demands. They can reduce costs by standardizing data transformation logic across all their different data integration initiatives. This single, unified data integration platform allows IT organizations to reuse the same logic while choosing the best data delivery method for each project—real-time, batch, or change data capture.
Developers and Global IT Teams Based on a unique metadata-driven architecture, the Informatica platform enables global development teams to easily reuse development assets across a wider range of platforms and projects. The platform provides a single set of tools that developers can use across all data integration projects, reducing training costs and accelerating ramp-up times.
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