Lower the Cost and Risk of Data Warehousing

In today's hypercompetitive economy, the ability to transform business data into business intelligence can be your company's best hope for beating the competition. However, that requires your IT organization to build a data warehouse, populate it with complete, consistent, accurate, and current data from multiple sources and make that data available to analytical and operational applications throughout the enterprise.

But much of your data is tied up in seldom-used legacy applications or locked away in departmental silos. You might not even know where it is; you can't be sure whether it's relevant or reliable. Perhaps you're still hand coding individual data integration and warehousing processes, a costly, error-prone practice that devours IT time and resources as your developers reinvent the wheel every time they want to extract, transform, or load data.

And despite all this effort, your smaller data marts and departmental data warehouses still don't scale easily to a large, distributed environment.

Meanwhile, your end users wait—and wait—for the comprehensive, up-to-date information that will allow them to respond promptly and effectively to a volatile market.

How can you avoid overruns and delays in your data warehousing implementations? How do you lower TCO and raise ROI to demonstrate data warehousing's business value? How do you ensure fast access to high-quality data wherever it's needed in the enterprise?

Informatica can help.

Accelerate Data Warehousing with Proven ETL Tools and Methodology

The Informatica solution for data warehousing streamlines the process of accessing, discovering, cleansing, and integrating all data to populate and maintain data marts, data warehouses, and enterprise data warehouses. The solution consists of the Informatica Platform, the industry-leading data integration platform; Informatica Velocity, a proven implementation methodology; and Informatica Professional Services to accelerate deployment. The solution is ideal for:

• Minimizing the costs and risks of any data warehousing projects
• Readily and cost-effectively scaling up data marts and departmental data warehouses to enterprise data warehouses
• Deploying data warehouses faster and minimizing maintenance time

With the Informatica solution, your IT organization can minimize the costs, time, and risks associated with data warehousing projects. Your IT team can readily and cost-effectively scale up data marts and departmental data warehouses to be enterprise data warehouses that provide minute-by-minute decision-making abilities, visibility across business units, and transparency for regulatory compliance.

The Informatica data warehousing solution makes it economical to harness all your company's data regardless of location, format, volume, or latency. Expert Informatica consultants share best practices and help your IT organization configure the solution for maximum flexibility—enabling you to add new capabilities incrementally as needed.