ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TDWI WORLD CONFERENCE -- Informatica Corporation , a leading provider of data integration software, today announced strong industry support for Release 8.5, an innovative offering delivering advances in real-time data integration and quality for enterprise integration competency centers (ICCs). Informatica PowerCenter 8.5, Informatica PowerExchange 8.5 and Informatica Data Quality 8.5 drive new standards for data timeliness, data trust and business/IT alignment.
"Release 8.5 extends Informatica's leadership in near universal data access, real-time integration and proactive data quality to deliver a platform geared to the needs of the real-time enterprise ICC," said Harry Gould, senior vice president, worldwide alliances, Informatica. "Our ecosystem of industry partners is clearly in synch with our direction and we welcome their support for Release 8.5 and their continued collaboration as we address the needs of our mutual customers."
Among the top systems integrators, technology infrastructure providers and software companies expressing support for Release 8.5 are: 数据挖掘研究院
Cognizant
"Informatica PowerCenter 8.5 has a much improved data integration engine. The concurrent workflow, enhancements to pushdown optimizations and parameterization are some of the important features that will help our consultants improve the time-to-market and performance of the system. There is an increase in demand for large-scale, Informatica based data integration services and the updated real-time capabilities would help us reduce the operations cost and provide better services to our customers." - Veeraraghavan Narayanaswamy, Vice President & Global Practice Head Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & Performance Management Practice 数据挖掘实验室
Cognos
"Cognos and Informatica recently expanded their global partnership with a worldwide reseller agreement for Informatica's data quality software. Informatica's software enables us to engage the Cognos business user community to proactively participate in understanding and addressing quality issues in the information used to drive critical BI and Performance Management initiatives. We're excited about the advancements in Informatica Data Quality 8.5 to deliver improved business-IT collaboration and the additional features in PowerCenter 8.5. These enhancements, along with our mutual platform-neutral approach, ensure our joint customers can gain the most value from their enterprise data." - Mel Zeledon, Senior Vice President of Global Alliances
Data Synapse
"Whether it is growing data volumes and fragmentation in traditional deployments or real-time Data Integration for operational systems, the enterprise perpetually demands more of its Data Integration environments. With the release of PowerCenter 8.5, Informatica continues its long track record of anticipating and delivering concrete product innovations and partnerships to help its enterprise clients meet new and existing challenges. The state-of-the-art integration between our FabricServer application virtualization technology and PowerCenter's Enterprise Grid Option allows PowerCenter grids to scale dynamically on shared application infrastructure in a policy framework, ensuring improved quality of service, economics, and agility for clients." - Jeff Bashaw, Vice President of Business Development 数据挖掘研究院
Dataupia 数据挖掘实验室
"Informatica and Dataupia are on a common mission - to free data from the disparate silos that exist within organizations. Providing greater access to data across an organization boosts the value of that data, which in turn leads to greater business insight. Release 8.5 is all about accelerating the speed of data in a secure, trusted way. The speed Informatica offers coupled with the access to data that Dataupia delivers will enable our joint customers to achieve the maximum business benefit from their data." - Jim McManus, VP Channels & Alliances 数据挖掘研究院
Getronics PinkRoccade 数据挖掘研究院
"The usability and user-friendliness has greatly been advanced, which makes it easier to get the wanted functionality of the mappings and workflows." - Release 8.5 Beta-Testing Team 数据挖掘研究院
HP 数据挖掘实验室
"With the 8.5 release, Informatica has delivered an advanced enterprise data integration solution that our customers can leverage across our portfolio, particularly the HP Neoview data warehouse platform. We believe this is a significant step forward, not only for our current customer base, but for future system development." - Carl D'CostaWorldwide Director of BI Alliances
Hexaware 数据挖掘实验室
"We examined the Release 8.5 Pushdown Optimization Option very thoroughly in the beta testing process. With the 8.5 release of PowerCenter, the Pushdown Optimization Option supports additional transformations that can be processed within the database. This allows our customers to take advantage of existing database resources and to achieve optimal performance, based on the specific data integration scenario." - Release 8.5 Beta-Testing Team, Hexaware 数据挖掘研究院
Inergy
"Informatica Release 8.5 takes customers in the direction they need to go - toward the real-time ICC. It helps deliver data their users can rely on. We feel confident that the platform is scalable and secure enough for a growing enterprise. IT organizations will find it easier to work with the business analysts because the tools translate across departments and disciplines." - Cor Clange, Datawarehouse Engineer
Infosys 数据挖掘研究院
"Infosys is excited about the enhanced Metadata Manager capabilities of Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition 8.5. The focus on greater cross- functional collaboration between developers and analysts will allow for enhanced productivity and ensure improved business alignment. Infosys is planning to leverage these capabilities in concert with our Global Delivery Model (GDM) for optimal implementations of data-driven solutions." - Anoop Lalla, North America Business Intelligence Practice Leader
Mitsubishi Denki Information Technology Inc. (MDIT) 数据挖掘实验室
"With the delivery of PowerCenter 8.5's enhanced internationalization support, MDIT will develop a compelling, localized solution for our market in Japan, increasing Informatica's breadth in the region. We are particularly excited about offering the PowerCenter Advanced Edition Metadata Manager capabilities to our joint customer base." - Mitsuteru Shiba, Product Specialist, Data Centric Solution Engineering Division 数据挖掘研究院
Patni Computer Systems 数据挖掘研究院
"The type of complex, global, systems deployment engagements we take on require precision with respect to data integration and quality. With its focus on data management and web services, Release 8.5 carries on a tradition which we are certain is going to continue to delight the business users and IT administrators that we support." - Umesh Karpe, BI Practice Head
Sun Microsystems 数据挖掘研究院
"Informatica and Sun have a history of record-setting performance and scalability achievements as well as joint enterprise-class customers implementing Informatica Integration Competency Centers. 数据挖掘研究院
With Release 8.5's real-time, concurrent scalability and data quality improvements certified for the open source Solaris(TM) OS, our customers will significantly benefit from their broader data integration implementations." - Cyrus Golkar, Global Leader, BI and Data Warehousing Business 数据挖掘实验室
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) 数据挖掘实验室
"Compliance is on everyone's mind, and leading organizations understand that a core foundation of compliance is trusted data. With the integrated data and metadata discovery and analysis capabilities of Metadata Manager within PowerCenter Advanced Edition 8.5, our customers can easily trace where our data has been, where it's going, and how it has been transformed along the way. This increases their visibility into business-critical data, and improves oversight across the enterprise." - Ravindra Asundi, Director, BIPM Product Technologies
Teradata
"Informatica has long been a leader in the traditional ETL space. However, it is the enhanced pushdown optimization capability that puts the new versions of Informatica into a unique market position. The ability to leverage a single interface and metadata model to drive both engine-based ETL and RDBMS-based ELT allows designers to specify execution of each transformation for best performance and minimal data movement on a case-by- case basis within a single development environment. With the extended list of transformations for the Pushdown Optimization Option and enhanced support for Teradata Parallel Transporter (TPT) in the 8.5 release, Informatica is highly optimized for delivering to the performance requirements of our joint enterprise-class customers." - Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer
Thoughtcorp 数据挖掘研究院
"The Metadata Manager capabilities within PowerCenter Advanced Edition 8.5 are a quantum leap forward in creating effective cross-functional collaboration. It would be hard to find another solution in the market today that would provide the kind of feature/function value that Informatica is offering now." - Guy Brancato, Director, Advanced Solutions Group
Wipro 数据挖掘实验室
"As an Informatica partner with large distributed implementation teams around the world, we're pleased to see the unified user management capabilities in PowerCenter 8.5, which supports both LDAP and PowerCenter- based authentication. Our work requires secure, distributed development with the Informatica platform, and PowerCenter's 8.5 upgrade allows the flexibility to customize user roles. The upgrade also significantly streamlines security administration in an Integrated Competency Center." - Vivek Bhasin, VP- eBusiness and DataWarehousing
Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP) Consulting 数据挖掘研究院
"A truly enterprise-grade platform must take into account security, scalability, and failure recovery. Informatica Release 8.5 addresses all of these mandates. We anticipate savings through reuse of data assets with the dynamically scalable data services. And we expect our joint customers to increase their real-time data reliability with the new Informatica PowerCenter features." - Calla Knopman, Practice Manager, BI/DW & Technology Services
About Informatica 数据挖掘研究院
Informatica Corporation 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 www.informatica.com. 数据挖掘研究院
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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.
