Release 8.5 Delivers Industry's First Comprehensive Solution for Real-time
Integration Competency Centers
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TDWI WORLD CONFERENCE
-- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a leading provider of data
integration software, today announced PowerCenter 8.5, PowerExchange 8.5,
and Informatica Data Quality 8.5, a comprehensive release that uniquely
supports real-time integration competency centers (ICCs). Through
standardization and centralization, an ICC promotes data integration best
practices and lowers costs through economies of scale. The real-time ICC
delivers timely, trusted data to meet information needs of the business.
"More and more companies require trusted, real-time data to support
operational initiatives such as master data management, data
synchronization and data replication, as well as real-time enterprise data
warehousing" said Girish Pancha, Executive Vice President, Informatica.
"With Release 8.5 powering a real-time ICC, organizations can reuse
existing integration assets to rapidly deliver new initiatives that drive
business growth and profitability."
Ensuring timely, trusted data
Despite the ever-increasing fragmentation of data, businesses demand a
timely, holistic view of enterprise information. PowerExchange 8.5 provides
real-time Changed Data Capture (CDC) from a variety of transactional
systems enabling immediate access to up-to-date business data. In addition,
PowerCenter 8.5 guarantees the ordered delivery of those changes across the
enterprise.
"PowerCenter 8.5 takes Ameriprise in the direction it needs to go
toward the real-time ICC," said John Holm, Director, Data Integration
Center of Excellence at Ameriprise Financial. "This release offers us the
ability to synchronize data across our applications, and deliver reliable,
timely information to our users. PowerExchange 8.5 gives us the broadest
possible access to our business-critical data - from ERP applications,
mainframes, relational databases, and data warehouses to real-time
messaging and web services."
Informatica Data Quality 8.5 enables proactive data quality with new
capabilities that prevent inaccurate data from being input in the first
place. Informatica Data Quality for Point of Entry empowers business users
to validate addresses and check for duplicates as they enter data into
applications.
Building on a secure, scalable platform
As ICC teams become larger and dispersed, enterprise-grade scalability,
security, and reliability are now critical requirements for IT management.
PowerCenter 8.5 provides reentrant data services that scale dynamically and
perform optimally regardless of service request volumes.
"The LinkShare Merchandiser product takes in data feeds from 700
advertisers and pushes it into a relational database before sending the
information to nearly 7000 publishers," said David J. Ramos, Director of
Business Intelligence and Analytics at LinkShare. "We expect that
PowerCenter 8.5's dynamically scalable web services will help us
immensely."
To ensure data security throughout the project lifecycle, PowerCenter
8.5 introduces the new Data Masking option to obfuscate sensitive data as
it is moved. In addition, PowerCenter 8.5 provides granular role-based
access control, making it possible to protect against security breaches
across large, geographically distributed ICC teams.
Fostering cross-team collaboration for business/IT alignment
As the demand for IT and business alignment grows, IT must involve
subject matter experts throughout the data integration and data quality
lifecycle. Informatica Data Quality 8.5 introduces the Data Quality
Assistant to help data stewards collaborate with IT to interactively review
and address data quality exceptions. Coupled with the new Data Quality
Dashboards and Reports option, these capabilities allow business users to
be involved throughout the data quality lifecycle.
"The Data Quality Assistant, which supports a browser-based exception
handling process, will provide major benefits in our data migration
project," said Graham S. Dawson, Head of Information Services at the
Humberside Police in the U.K. "The new Dashboard and Reports option, with
configurable web-based reports and scorecards, is in line with the type of
reporting needed to present the results of our Information Factory program
of work."
The new purpose-built Data Migration Tool helps mitigate risk
associated with data migration projects. Leveraging best practice migration
methodology, this tool accelerates data conversion by automating repetitive
tasks, including maintaining reference data and performing mass changes.
PowerCenter Metadata Manager 8.5 accelerates project delivery by
providing comprehensive impact analysis through personalized data lineage.
It further facilitates collaboration by sharing annotations and saved
searches.
"In PowerCenter 8.5, Metadata Manager has made major advances in
usability, personalization and collaboration," said Furio Lanzoni, Global
BI - Informatica Shared Services, HP. "The redesigned interface makes key
tasks such as visualizing data lineage much more personalized, interactive
and intuitive, allowing developers to quickly understand data relationships
and conduct impact analysis. This increases our productivity, as well as
ensures consistency and visibility across the enterprise."
Availability
Informatica Data Quality 8.5, Informatica PowerCenter 8.5, and
Informatica PowerExchange 8.5 are available now. The PowerCenter Data
Masking option and the Data Migration Tool will be available as separately
priced offerings by end of Q1, 2008.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA) is a leading provider of
enterprise data integration software and services. With Informatica,
organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their
information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,900 companies
worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to
address data integration needs of any complexity and scale. For more
information, call 650-385-5000 (1-800-653- 9871 in the U.S.), or visit
http://www.informatica.com.
Note: Informatica, PowerCenter, PowerCenter Metadata Manager,
PowerCenter Data Masking PowerExchange, PowerExchange Changed Data Capture,
, Informatica Data Quality, Informatica Data Quality for Point of Entry,
Informatica Data Quality Assistant, Informatica Data Quality Dashboards and
Reports, Informatica Data Migration Tool and Informatica Release 8.5 are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the
United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company
and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective
owners.
The development, release and timing of any Informatica product features
described in this release remain at the sole discretion of Informatica and
should not be relied upon in making a purchasing decision.
Contacts: Deborah Wiltshire Donna Lyon
Informatica Corporation Text 100
650-385-5360 415-593-8478
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