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The business possibilities for leveraging information in this new era of Big Data are
thrilling. But they come with a caveat that stretches back to the mainframe days:
garbage in, garbage out. Bad data leads to inefficient operations, nonproductive
employees, and bad decisions. Great data isnt by accident, it happens by design.
With Informatica Data Quality, and the holistic data stewardship that it enables,
businesses can trust their data and, as a result, the decisions they make based on
that data.
Informatica Data Quality ensures data quality to all stakeholders, projects, and
data domains for all projects and applicationson premise, on Hadoop or in the
cloudusing a single, unified platform. Powered by Informaticas Vibe virtual data
machine, it allows you to proactively monitor and cleanse your data in a consistent
and reusable manner regardless of the underlying platform and technologies.
Whether you want data quality on-premise or in the cloud, have Big Data or something
smaller, need to improve data governance or dive into it for the first time, Informaticas
proven data quality solutions support your organizations maturity and needs.
Want to start a data quality initiative? Informatica Data Quality Standard Edition provides
all the capabilities you need to discover, search, profile, standardize, build rules, deploy
rules, create scorecards, manage exceptions and more. As additional projects get
underway, you can reuse the same data quality rules to build and expand your companys
data quality standards.
Implementing enterprise-wide data quality? Informatica Data Quality Advanced Edition
gives you the scale required with enterprise grid and partitioning support. Additional
enterprise-class capabilities include the ability to discover sensitive data and understand
data relationships, as well as advanced matching to de-duplicate and standardize data
from diverse sources. With deeper enterprise-wide visibility and insights, you can increase
appreciation for the value of quality data and drive more effective business decisions.
Establishing an end-to-end data governance process? Informatica Data Governance Edition
provides the application infrastructure for managing data quality as a business process and
enabling compliance with data governance policies and standards. And it provides for
better decision making and collaboration with data stewards to ensure trusted data.
Working with cloud applications? The more SaaS application data your business consumes,
the more you need a hybrid approach to data quality that includes both on-premise and
cloud-based tools. Learn more about Informatica Cloud and Cloud Data Quality.
Gartner Predicts 2014: Information Governance and MDM Are Critical for Digital Transformation,
Saul Judah, November 22nd, 2013
As part of the Informatica Data Quality feature set, all of the basic capabilities are provided out-of-the-box for
each edition, including data quality transformations
Compare these Informatica Data Quality editions to select the one that best fits your business
data quality initiatives
Data Quality
Standard Edition
(Data Projects)
Data Quality
Advanced Edition
(Enterprise Scale)
Data Quality
Governance Edition
(Governance Practice)
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Enterprise Discovery
Discovery Search
Data Profiling
Basic
Advanced
Basic
Advanced
Rule Builder
Data Quality
Transformations
Exception Management
Reference Table
Management
Add-on
Add-on
Data Domain
Discovery
Add-on
Server
Hadoop
Server
Add-on
Add-on
Universal Record ID
Add-on
Add-on
Business Glossary
Upgrade
Upgrade
Upgrade
Metadata Manager
Upgrade
Upgrade
Upgrade
Proactive Monitoring
for Data Quality
Add-on
Add-on
Add-on
Data Quality
Accelerators
Add-on
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Key Features
Understand and Manage Data Quality Enterprise-Wide
Informatica Data Quality is designed to deliver the right data quality capabilities at the
right time to the right users. Even without technical know-how, business analysts and data
stewards can easily and continually understand and manage the level of their data quality
within the context of their evolving data ecosystem.
Data analysis through a self-service interface gives business analysts and data stewards
easy access to all the tools they need to manage the entire data quality lifecycle.
Enterprise discovery accelerates understanding of data quality by revealing what data
you have, where it resides, how to access it, and how much of it requires extra security.
Discovery search makes it easy to find data assets, business terms, defined rules, profiles,
can ensure consistency enterprise-wide while identifying and remediating bad data.
The data quality rule builder simplifies creation of policy-driven rules.
The business glossary provides a common business vocabulary to facilitate collaboration
governance practices.
All basic data quality transformationsquality standardization, matching, formatting,
Informatica AddressDoctor
Validate Addresses as You Parse, Cleanse, and Standardize Global
Informatica AddressDoctor provides address validation as it parses, cleanses, and standardizes global
address data and applies geocoordinates for specific countries. This high-performance, scalable software is
recommended for large volumes of data or time-critical applications.
Even with conventional hardware, it enables processing speeds of more than 3 million records per hour,
making address validation timely and convenient.
Reference data packages are updated monthly, so you can correct addresses from a single country or the
whole world with frequent address validation updates. A single application programming interface (API) that
supports more than 240 countries and seven different writing systems makes integrating address validation
into your environment fast and easy. The library is available with a C and Java interface that handles 40
different character sets.
By validating your customer addresses with Informatica AddressDoctor address validation, your company can
enhance customer service and increase the effectiveness of direct marketing campaigns by ensuring that offers
reach your customers and prospects at their correct addresses in a timely manner. By implementing address
standardization and address validation as part of broader data integration initiatives, you can maximize
IT efficiency while minimizing IT costs. And you can ensure compliance with such regulations as Know Your
Customer and the USA Patriot Act.
Key Features
Character Set Mapping and Transliteration
Handles 40 different character sets and maps string data between them, lending versatility to
address validation
Transliterates strings into the Latin alphabet, simplifying the address validation process
Seamless Integration
Integrates easily with other Informatica applications as well as master data management
solutions, CRM and ERP systems, call center systems, high-performance websites, and
direct marketing applications
Leverages a wide array of interfaces and enhancements, including C and Java API; XML
and legacy interface; simple file exchange; streamlining library installation and updating;
versatile assignment of input data; and scalability for multiprocessor and multiple
core systems
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation
(Nasdaq:INFA) is the worlds
number one independent provider
of data integration software.
Organizations around the world
rely on Informatica to realize
their information potential and
drive top business imperatives.
Informatica Vibe, the industrys first
and only embeddable virtual data
machine (VDM), powers the unique
Map Once. Deploy Anywhere.
capabilities of the Informatica
Platform. Worldwide, over 5,000
enterprises depend on Informatica
to fully leverage their information
assets from devices to mobile to
social to big data residing onpremise, in the Cloud and across
social networks.
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