Unlock Complex Data to Drive Business Growth
To stay competitive and grow, your company needs to effectively leverage its data — including the data locked in complex files, documents, and messages. The number and size of these data sources are expanding, making it difficult to manage the diversity of types. Complexity is increasing, formats are constantly evolving, and customization is the norm. Service levels are at risk. Efficiency is key. And Informatica B2B Data Transformation can help.
Whether you’re extending your data warehouse to incorporate untapped complex data, building distributed SOA data services, or constructing an industry exchange hub to support electronic banking, insurance, or healthcare operations, transformation is essential.
Within these solutions, managing increasing data volumes and the growing complexity of data sources, in diverse formats and industry standards, is a challenge. How does your IT organization respond?
Developing data parsers by hand to translate industry-standard and proprietary files into consumable formats such as XML is cumbersome, labor intensive, and expensive. Manual processing of complex data can account for up to 70 percent of your IT costs. These manual efforts can’t be shared or reused. And when your IT organization needs to scale to handle more data and complexity, manual coding creates a bottleneck that disrupts your IT organization’s ability to respond to business needs.
Informatica Can Help
Informatica B2B Data Transformation provides a comprehensive, enterprise-class solution to your transformation challenges. It is the best technology for extracting data from any file, document, or message — regardless of format, complexity, or size — and transforming it into a usable form.
The Data Transformation design tools provide a productive, codeless, visual design and test environment that dramatically improves time to integration of all file, document, and message-based data — by as much as 80 percent.
To accelerate adding new data sources, Data Transformation includes the most comprehensive out-of-the-box support for industry standards, allowing organizations to readily integrate messages such as EDI, SWIFT, NACHA, ACORD, and HIPAA. Document processors make it easy to extract data from Adobe PDF files and Microsoft Word and Excel documents.
To support the complete transformation development process, Data Transformation includes tools for analysts, an Excel-based Mapping Tool, and an easy-to-use Library Customization UI. These features streamline gathering requirements, jumpstart development by creating actionable specifications, ease the back-and-forth between analysts and IT development, and reduce costly errors. With Data Transformation, the specifications that analysts create can be run as Transformation Services — leaving developers to focus on more technical challenges and making better use of limited IT resources.
These Data Transformation Services are easy to maintain and can be reused across solutions and architectures — as a common service in an SOA, leveraged by an ESB or EAI infrastructure, and used by mappings in Informatica PowerCenter. The Data Transformation engine is designed for high-performance real-time and batch processing of complex data.
Using Informatica B2B Data Transformation, your organization can efficiently design, deploy, and reuse transformations across the enterprise, preserving investment and consolidating transformation processing.