REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- News Facts:
- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) today launched two new Informatica Professional Services implementations: the Informatica Lean Integration Factory and the Informatica PowerCenter Automated Deployment Framework, both available today.
- Designed to accelerate time-to-implementation and time-to-value for Informatica's market-leading data integration solutions and the wide spectrum of integration projects they support.
- Optimizes the use and performance of organizations' integration development and support resources.
- Reduces integration costs, supports efficient and cost-effective outsourced code development, and regulatory compliance.
- Frees up large portions of IT budget and talent pools to focus on business value-creation.
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What is a Lean Integration Factory?
- The Informatica Lean Integration Factory is an agile approach to integration and data quality that results in a standardized, repeatable process for achieving the highest levels of cost efficiency, rapid time-to-change and operational stability.
- As in Lean manufacturing, the focus is on avoiding waste, driving continuous improvement, reusing components, automating routine processes, empowering teams, building-in quality and optimizing the whole.
- The Lean Integration Factory leverages the Informatica Lean Velocity methodology and such management practices as Value Stream Mapping, MBF Problem Solving and Kaizen events to continuously improve integration team productivity, reduce costs, accelerate delivery and maximize project quality.
- Proven to drive integration team productivity gains of 50 percent coupled with continuous improvements; reductions in project lead time of up to 90 percent; and significant increases in project quality, the methodology's dramatic improvements are well-known in the manufacturing arena.
- Case studies in the upcoming book An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility, authored by Informatica executives David Lyle and John Schmidt, will show similar successes. The book, a follow on from Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology, will be published in Q2 2010. For more information on the book visit the Integration Factory website.
- Customers can engage with Informatica Professional Services for a Lean Integration Factory implementation aligned with an organization's business goals, including capabilities assessment, strategy and plan development and aid in implementing a multi-phased Lean Integration Factory plan.
What is the Automated Deployment Framework?
- The Framework automates the setup of PowerCenter environments from migrating code and mappings through development and testing and into production across multiple projects.
- Enables IT organizations to rapidly configure and deploy a standardized data integration project environment, including establishing an effective change management strategy.
- Ideal for Lean Integration Factory and Integration Competency Center environments, it provides an automated approach to implementing the Informatica Data Integration Platform, resulting in faster time-to-value, reduced risk and lower costs for any type of data integration project.
- Streamlines and speeds deployment while reducing IT costs and effort, minimizing the risk of human error.
- Regulatory compliance efforts are supported by the Framework preserving a centralized, detailed history of all PowerCenter code configurations and configuration and code changes.
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- "Common approaches, standardized procedures, automation and repeatability, continuous improvement: these and other Lean principles applied to enterprise data integration development and deployment is the way of the future, yielding staggering advantages in terms of increased productivity, agility and business value," said Brian Hodges, senior vice president, Worldwide Professional Services, Informatica. "Informatica Professional Services has distilled the experience gained over thousands of customer data integration implementations to create our latest two highly synergistic professional service offerings designed to help customers leverage the Informatica Platform for the greatest and most rapid return."
Additional Information
- David Lyle and Jon Schmidt's previous book, Integration Competency Center: An Implementation Methodology, highlights the significant benefits IT organizations can realize by adopting a more centralized integration approach.
- Details on Integration Competency Centers.
- Details on Informatica Professional Services and Integration Factory Implementation Service (PDF).
- Hear from Informatica customers.
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the world's number one independent leader in data integration software. The Informatica Platform provides organizations with a comprehensive, unified, open and economical approach to lower IT costs and gain competitive advantage from their information assets. More than 3,900 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">www.informatica.com.
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