SubscribeA Deeper Dive into Informatica 8.6
Posted in Customers, Data Integration, Data Quality, Girish Pancha, Informatica World, On Demand, Sohaib Abbasi, Solutions and Products, Speakers by Bill Cox | No Comments |
10:05am: At the top of the hour, Sohaib handed the baton to Girish Pancha, EVP and GM of Informatica’s Data Integration business unit, for a more detailed discussion of the newly announced Informatica 8.6 platform.
Girish’s session took Sohaib’s opening remarks a level down and went through three key components of the new platform:
PowerCenter Real Time Edition
Girish: Real Time Edition is all about real time, near-universal data integration within an enterprise. With new features such as streaming changed data capture, Girish spoke of PowerCenter 8.6’s support of the continuum of data integration latency or timeliness requirements… from batch to real-time. Examples from Electronic Arts, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange and West Bend Mutual Insurance were used to highlight Informatica’s ability to maximize data value and optimize IT efficiency.
B2B Data Exchange
Girish highlighted the single infrastructure of 8.6 that allows “Data Warriors” to deal with traditional and non-traditional data exchange, as B2B Data Exchange is completely integrated with the 8.6 platform. Concerned about the quality of your partners' data? You can leverage the Informatica Data Quality offering to ensure the data is clean and trusted. No additional hardware infrastructure or system administration needed. One customer, Clalit, saved 10 person years of work for its HL7 solution with help from Informatica.
Informatica On Demand
Girish then moved on to talk about on-demand data integration to retain control over outsourced, off-premise data. The new Data Loader service provides business users a simple-to-use service to integrate their off-premise data managed by salesforce.com with their on-premise data.
10:35am: Ivan Chong returns to the stage to talk about the fourth key facet of 8.6 – data quality solutions.
As Ivan notes, data quality is more than just data cleansing and profiling – it’s getting customers to the point where they can trust their data. Traditional data quality normally starts with customer data. But we all need to think about the quality of data across the whole enterprise. Informatica’s data quality solutions take data from different domains and establish rules that reference multiple types of data. There is a consistent look and feel and common repository for data.
The interesting thing that they're saying is that with Informatica 8.6, the data quality engine IS PowerCenter.
Ivan mentions that a large food and beverage manufacturer recognized huge savings in trade promotions spend because of Informatica’s data quality offering. Another customer, a large bank, avoided $20M in AML fines using Informatica PowerCenter.
With the recent acquisition of Identity Systems, Informatica has been able to expand is data quality offering. Cross-language and cross script matching now enables businesses to deal with their global customer base. The IRS, GE Capital, Wells Fargo, FedEx, DHL, Canada Border Services and the US Postal Inspector are all customers leveraging technology from Informatica to ensure trust with their data.
Quite the morning thus far – and the best is still to come! The Informatica Innovation Awards ceremony is up next…..
