REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 10, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, introduced Informatica 9, the industry's only comprehensive, unified and open data integration infrastructure platform. Informatica 9 enables an organization to become a data-driven enterprise through the delivery of relevant, trustworthy and timely data. Informatica 9 is designed to be deployed on-premise or in the internet cloud.
"Building on our track record of relentless innovation and new breakthrough advances to overcome three formidable challenges, Informatica 9 enables organizations to gain the most business value from their information assets," said Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO, Informatica. "With unique capabilities for Business-IT collaboration, pervasive data quality and SOA-based data services, Informatica 9 helps deliver the most relevant, trustworthy and timely data."
Relevant Data through Business-IT Collaboration
Despite increasing investments in information technology, a significant number of IT projects fail to deliver business value by not providing the most relevant data. Informatica 9 facilitates better alignment between business departments and IT by empowering business users to be directly involved in the IT development process. New capabilities include:
* Browser-based analyst tools - Using a familiar browser-based
user interface, analysts can directly specify their business
requirements.
* Auto-generation of implementation details - With automatic
generation of implementation details from business
specifications, Informatica 9 helps ensure that little is
lost in the translation from requirements to actual
implementation.
* Common metadata repository - Leveraging a common metadata
repository of all specification and implementation artifacts,
business analysts and IT developers can communicate and share
their work with each other.
"At Boston Scientific, we help clinicians improve patients' lives by delivering innovative medical technologies that lead the world in quality, reliability and efficacy," said Kristopher Anderson, Senior Software Developer, Boston Scientific. "We are excited about the capabilities of Informatica 9 as it enables IT and the business to share the responsibility for data quality and data governance, and increase confidence and trust in enterprise data."
Trustworthy Data through Pervasive Data Quality
Traditionally, IT has been solely responsible for all data quality initiatives. With Informatica 9, every stakeholder is empowered to ensure data quality for their own business purposes. Advances include:
* Support for nearly all data for all purposes - Data quality
rules can be specified for nearly all data including customer,
product, financial and asset data. These data quality rules
are specified once and can be reused repeatedly, ensuring
consistency across applications.
* Unified role-based tools - With role-based tools, all
stakeholders can take ownership of their own data quality
requirements that only they know best. Data quality
scorecards, simple analyst tools and productive developer
tools empower business users, business analysts, data
stewards and IT developers to be directly involved in
measuring and improving data quality.
"Informatica 9 allows our joint customers to implement data quality more pervasively in upstream operational systems, thus ensuring optimized, trusted data is available from Teradata to our customers broad scale Business Intelligence community," said Stephen Brobst, CTO, Teradata.
Timely Data through Open SOA-based Services
Within most enterprises, data is fragmented across multiple applications, each having its own structure and format. Growing adoption of cloud computing is further fragmenting data beyond the enterprise. With Informatica 9, business users are now assured that they will have timely data in the appropriate format while IT benefits from reduced system administration costs. New innovations include:
* Rich information catalog services - Informatica 9 enables
users to rapidly discover relevant data, on-premise or in
the internet cloud, using rich information catalog services
that record the semantics and relationships between data
elements.
* Logical data objects - Data discovery is further expedited
with logical data objects that dramatically simplify the
complexity of actual data representation.
* Multi-modal data provisioning services - With innovative
multi-modal data provisioning services, data can be delivered
in a variety of formats and using various protocols such
as web services and SQL, without requiring any additional
IT development work.
* Policy-based data services governance - Informatica 9
policy-based data services governance dramatically reduces
the system administration costs as all these data rules are
managed once centrally.
"Informatica 9's unique approach to SOA-based data services will enable a new set of data-driven solutions for our clients," said Srini Pallia, Senior VP & Global Head, Business Technology Services, Wipro Technologies. "This new product will help implement the necessary controls and deliver the long-desired value of an SOA architecture, maximizing our customers ability to compete successfully based on data driven decisions."
Industry's Only Comprehensive, Unified and Open Data Integration Platform
More than a set of new products, Informatica 9 is the latest advance of the industry's first comprehensive, unified and open data integration platform.
* Only Informatica 9 combines advances in six technology
categories: enterprise data integration, data quality,
B2B data exchange, application information lifecycle
management, complex event processing and cloud data
integration. The comprehensive Informatica 9 platform
uniquely automates every step in the data integration
lifecycle.
* Informatica 9 is uniquely architected from the ground up
for unification, with common shared services including an
integrated profiler, common metadata, a universal catalog
and data transformation services. The unified Informatica 9
platform reduces IT costs and improves productivity.
* Informatica 9 is open for customers to leverage nearly all
data, on-premise or in the internet cloud.
"Effective enterprise information management is the key to surviving, even thriving, in this economy," said Carl Olofson, research vice president at IDC. "Combining data quality and data integration into a single platform and the delivery of multi-modal data provisioning, all with a single-user interface ensures that customers will be able to reduce risk and minimize costs, ultimately improving their business agility. That's the message of Informatica 9, and it is setting the course that the industry must follow."
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About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the world's number one independent leader in data integration software. The Informatica Platform provides corporations with a comprehensive, unified, open and economical approach to lower IT costs and gain competitive advantage from their information assets. More than 3,850 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise and in the internet cloud. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.
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