Enterprise Data Warehousing
Empower the Business with Better Information
Data warehousing was once dedicated to business intelligence and reporting, usually at the departmental or business unit level. But today, the data warehouse is becoming a strategic corporate initiative supporting an entire enterprise across a multitude of business applications. The brisk pace of change, coupled with industry consolidation and regulatory requirements, demands that data warehouses step into a mission-critical, operational role.
IT plays a crucial role in delivering the data foundation for key performance indicators such as revenue growth, margin improvement, and asset efficiency at the corporate, business unit, and departmental levels. The most effective approach is an enterprise-wide, integrated hub to track and improve fundamental business measures. It’s not only desirable, it’s necessary. And it is also feasible.
Taking the Data Warehouse Enterprise Wide
Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW) is a strategic, mission-critical function that impacts the core operations of an enterprise. It is distinct from traditional data warehousing, which is usually limited to supporting departmental business intelligence.
Informatica has redefined EDW in this new context; we provide the software and services to build an enterprise data warehouse that harnesses data assets for competitive advantage and operational excellence.
The Informatica Solution
Drawing on our proven, 13-year track record of innovation and leadership, Informatica has defined the standard for data integration that has delivered competitive advantage and operational excellence to leading Global 1000 companies and government organizations.
By deploying Informatica as a foundation for Enterprise Data Warehousing (EDW), an organization gains the advantages of immediate decision making, visibility across business units, synchronization of mission critical operations, and transparency for regulatory compliance, while reducing costs and implementation risk.
Informatica delivers the only proven data integration platform for EDW with the following key benefits:
- Improved data consistency across systems, processes and organizations
- Minimized compliance risk from increased data security and integrity standards
- Enhanced productivity through reusable services
- Greater alignment between IT and the business for real-time decision making
Key capabilities include:
- Optimized performance and scalability for handling large data volumes within tight batch windows
- Real-time processing for delivering right-time information, alerts and reports for business activity monitoring
- Built-in cleansing and specialist transformation library with wizards for ease-of-support for all types of slowly changing dimensions
- Built-in data-ready reporting for delivering simple access to data for business users
- Full data lineage-from report to source-for full audit trail, providing the business confidence and understanding in how the data was delivered
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“For six years, we have been using Informatica data integration technology; it is at the heart of our Enterprise Data Warehouse. With Informatica, we have been able to consolidate all customer and prospect information into a single database and thus improve the targeting and monitoring of marketing operations.”
- Hervé Grangeret
Data & Reporting Analyst,
Verizon Business
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