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Informatica

100 Cardinal Way

Redwood City, CA. 94063

http://www.informatica.com/Pages/index.aspx

Business Description

Informatica is the world's number one independent leader in data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today's global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives whether using traditional IT computing systems or the internet cloud.

Informatica Data Integration Resource Center

Industry innovators leverage critical business information to outperform the competition and do more with less. What's unique about their approach? They have a game plan to move information management up and out-serving the right information, at the right time, to the right people, across the whole enterprise.

Analyst Report Bloor Whitepaper: Pervasive Data Quality - Improving business processes with high quality data Describes the key benefits of adding Data Quality processes to a data warehouse environment including how to overcome difficulties typically encountered in implementing Data Quality.	White Paper CIO’s Guide to Achieving Information Management Excellence - HP and Informatica Joint White Paper HP and Informatica teamed up to create a framework for building an enterprise data foundation to drive operational efficiency. Learn about the challenges in managing costs and risks and making a case for Enterprise Information Management (EIM).
White Paper David Linthicum Whitepaper: Defining, Designing, and Implementing SOA-Based Data Service Learn how to define, design, and implement SOA-based data services to solve core data integration problems. Find out how use data services to deliver a trusted, timely single view of data and to create a virtual data warehouse for operational BI.	White Paper Essential Steps for the Integrated EDW Ralph Kimball proposes a specific architecture for building an integrated enterprise data warehouse (EDW).
White Paper Is Your Approach to MDM Upside Down? How to Avoid the Trap of MDM Silos Before embarking on an MDM initiative, learn about the two approaches and the implications of each. Avoid the trap of MDM silos, which some companies are falling into by building more silos rather than reducing them.	White Paper Measuring ROI of Data Profiling Software: Four Methods for Justifying Your Purchase Convince your management that investing in a data profiling tool is worth it. Learn four methods for building a case for investing in a data profiling tool: Column Method, Project Method, Risk Reduction Method, and Quality Method.
White Paper Operational Data Integration for the Real-Time Enterprise Learn from customer case scenarios and industry leaders how they used operational data integration to become a Real-Time Enterprise and achieved operational excellence.	White Paper Optimizing the Data Warehouse Infrastructure with Archiving This white paper will address the issues created by a complex data lifecycle within the data warehouse and how data archiving can better manage growing data volumes.
White Paper Ovum Whitepaper: Strategic Value of Data for Attracting and Retaining Customers Find out why data matters in acquiring and retaining customers, which rules to use for integrating and managing customer data, and how to evaluate data integration technology to deliver the right customer data to the right people at the right time.	White Paper The Business Case for Superior Data Integration Performance and Reliability Learn the importance of data integration performance and reliability and how the features and options of PowerCenter can help your IT organization handle increasing data volumes and meet business demands for timely, trusted information.
White Paper The Importance of Data Integration on Realizing the Business Value of Enterprise Applications In this whitepaper by Datamonitor, you learn how a data integration platform can help your company realize the full potential of its enterprise applications throughout their life cycle.	White Paper The Math, Myth, & Magic: An Introduction to Identity Data Search-and-Match This informative and educational book shows how identity resolution technology can help you deal with more than 60 issues in order to manage identity data successfully.
White Paper The Right Way to Integrate Data for Application Integration Whitepaper by David Linthicum David Linthicum explains the challenges of using the wrong data integration tool and failing to take the complexity of its data into account. Learn how to understand your own data integration needs and select the right data integration technology.

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