Informatica products support a broad range of enterprise-wide integration initiatives including data warehousing, data migration, consolidation and synchronization.

Using Informatica products, organizations can:

• Empower the business through increased access to holistic, consistent enterprise information
• Reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity with a single enterprise integration platform
• Increase IT productivity and improve responsiveness to the business
• Maximize future flexibility and minimize long-term risk leveraging a services-oriented architecture
  

Informatica Products Deliver:

Data warehousing
Empower the Business with Better Information
IT organizations deliver significant value to the business through solutions such as data warehouses, data marts, business intelligence and operational data stores. These solutions require the reconciliation and delivery of large amounts of enterprise data across a variety of sources-a daunting and complex task that is often time consuming and riddled with cost overruns. Most analysts agree-a typical data warehouse initiative requires 70 percent of the resources focused on finding, reconciling and loading the data warehouse and 70 percent of the cost geared towards ongoing operations and management.

Data Migration
Take Advantage of the Latest Technology Innovations by Upgrading to New Applications
The ever increasing demand for delivering new functionality to the business-often in the form of new application implementations or upgrades-is constant and ever increasing. In support of these growing demands, many organizations are required to migrate data from their existing applications to the new application. But migration can be complex, time consuming and costly-often unexpectedly so, with costs escalating to 10 times the original budget or project effort contrasting sharply to match available resources. Many IT managers postpone the move until there is such a pressing business need that they have no choice.

Data Consolidation
Create New Efficiencies by Reducing System and Application Complexity
The need to drive down IT costs and bolster efficiencies has resulted in an increasing trend towards data consolidation. Organizations are increasingly taking on application and platform consolidation to help rationalize IT infrastructure, reduce IT cost and complexity, and take advantage of newer technologies.

Whether consolidating existing systems or implementing new application functionality, IT must deal with data-complex, diverse, and large volumes of data. Typically, that data resides in existing legacy systems and must be migrated into new systems-a complicated and potentially high-risk process.

Data consolidation-a critical and time consuming phase of an application implementation, upgrade, or instance consolidation-is often an underestimated sub task of the entire application project. In fact, moving the data can often consume up to 40 percent of a project's entire budget.

Data Synchronization
Provide Cross-enterprise Business Applications with Critical Data
Ensuring data is consistent across a large number of applications is always a challenge whether it is streamlining customer contact points, complying with industry regulations, enabling global sourcing or working to provide a global customer or product master. The challenge is that data required for use across multiple applications is usually only captured in one system. As a result, IT is tasked with synchronizing that data into all the other systems that need it.

Data synchronization is commonly tackled as part of a larger application or business process initiative. This approach tends to create a solid environment that is often underestimated in complexity, hard to maintain, does not scale, and results in inconsistencies across a large enterprise.

Product overview:

Maximize future flexibility and minimize long-term risk leveraging a services-oriented architecture

• PowerCenter Standard Edition — The industry's leading software for accessing, integrating, and delivering data, PowerCenter Standard Edition cost-effectively leverages data from any system, to any system. PowerCenter Standard Edition allows installation in under thirty minutes.
• PowerCenter Advanced Edition — In addition to all the features of PowerCenter Standard Edition, PowerCenter Advanced Edition provides broad enterprise data integration with a single platform, robust metadata analysis (SuperGlue) and data-ready reporting (PowerAnalyzer), cost-effective grid computing and team-based development capabilities. With PowerCenter Advanced Edition, organizations can realize the benefits of a unified platform that addresses the full data integration lifecycle—helping to drive productivity, lower maintenance costs, and gain a substantial cost advantage with a rapid out-of-the-box experience. PowerCenter Advanced Edition allows installation all from one CD, all in under an hour.