Motorola
Motorola Inc., a $35 billion company, is one of the world’s largest suppliers of wireless network components.
“In the past, load times were simply too long, and customers were complaining about the freshness of data. Performance has improved dramatically, even though the sheer volume of data and the number of data sources has increased.”
— Kiyoka Takahashi, Data Warehouse Engineer, Motorola
Business Need
Improve reliability, cost savings and performance.
Increase scalability and enhance ability to rapidly add new servers to support increased data volumes and changing business demands.
Challenges
Reduce load time to a test management data mart from excessively slow 4 hours and 20 minutes.
Cut load time to a change management data mart from excessive 5 hours.
Accommodate greater data volumes, increased load frequency and more data sources.
Guarantee high availability of business-critical data.
Prevent downtime during maintenance.
Solutions & Results
Achieved three-year ROI of $2.5 million.
Cut load time to test management data mart from 4 hours and 20 minutes to 90 minutes.
Lowered load time to a change management data mart from 5 hours to 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Improved data load performance almost threefold.
Reduced development and maintenance time by at least 15 percent.
Ensured 24/7 access to reliable, accurate, up-to-date data.
Products & Services
Informatica PowerCenter
Accesses, integrates, and delivers any and all data quickly and cost-effectively, without hand coding.
Informatica High Availability
Minimizes service interruptions during hardware and/or software outages.
Informatica Enterprise Grid
Exploits grid computing architectures for data integration.
Success Stories
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