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Support real-time operations Full integration with the Informatica Platform to enable enterprise data integration and data
and up-to-the-minute decision quality initiatives
making with patented change data By being able to access mission-critical operational data wherever it may be stored and deliver
capture technology it wherever and whenever its needed, your IT organization can maximize its limited resources and
dramatically reduce the cost of delivering data.
Speed operations with scalable,
high-performance data extraction
and loading capabilities
As an outsourcing service provider, EVERTEC has unique demands for
data integration technology that meets both tactical and strategic objectives.
Informatica PowerExchange and PowerCenter ... can handle millions of
batch and real-time updates each day, while giving us a trusted platform that
we can leverage across other customers and business opportunities.
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PowerExchange in Action: Thames Water Utilities Ltd.
Thames Water Utilities Ltd. supplies water and wastewater services
to 13 million customers in London and Thames Valley and
maintains water management and supply contracts across England,
Around 70 per cent of the
Scotland, and Wales. The company needed to upgrade its physical
infrastructure, most of which dated back to the Victorian era. But cost of any ETL-based data
with a limited budget, it needed to carefully select which water
integration comes from the
mains, sewage pipes, pumps, and treatment plants needed to be
replaced and how. extraction phasecoding the
data, writing the migration
Data Access is Key to a Comprehensive View
routines, and checking the
How did Thames Water decide which projects would yield the highest return at the lowest cost?
The company needed a comprehensive view of all its infrastructure assets. results before loading it into
Historically, asset management relied on a mixture of maps, peoples knowledge, and a host the data mart. Informatica
of independent legacy systems, said Business Support Programme Manager Jim Weir. Some
PowerCenter and Informatica
were paper maintenance records going back 40 or more years. Others were in Excel documents.
Others were in databases. We needed a system that could pull together all that information and PowerExchange allow us to
present it in a way to help inform our decision making and ensure we set the right priorities.
cut down that part of the
Thames Water relied on Informatica PowerExchange to access data from a variety of by sharing the resource across
operational databases and flat files to create a data warehouse to house information about the group the return on
all its operational assets. The data warehouse enables the company to have a holistic view of
information, which it uses to make more strategic decisions about which assets need to be investment calculation will
refurbished or replaced. keep on improving with every
The data warehouse was so successful that Thames Water expanded its use to include not just
extraction we conduct!
operational asset data, but customer data, government statistics, local development plans,
local performance and usage, and supplier and partner information. With PowerExchange, the Jim Weir,
company can access all these data sources and deliver them to the data warehouse. Business Support
Programme Manager,
Thames Water Utilities Ltd.
Databases and Data Warehouses Adabas for UNIX, Windows Netezza Performance Server
C-ISAM ODBC
DB2 for Linux, UNIX, Window Oracle
Essbase SQL Server
Greenplum Sybase ASE
Informix Dynamic Server Sybase IQ
JDBC Teradata
Neoview
At SEI we are under constant pressure to deliver higher quality information to our
business users. Our data integration requirements have moved well beyond traditional
data warehousing to include real-time operational data integration. PowerExchange
lets us access updates the instant they happen, and the Informatica infrastructure scales
effectively to support everything from high-volume batch to low-latency, real-time
processing of complex data. By integrating our analytic and operational data stores in
real time, PowerExchange gives us a dramatic strategic advantage.
Jim McBride
Development Manager for the Global Wealth Platform
SEI
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Native access to our
mainframe Adabas data sources
has enabled us to roll out eight
data marts in just four years to
our analysts, and cut the time
our developers used to spend
on custom coding by as much
as one-half.
Chris Kemp
Manager
Data Management Services
Washington State Department of
Transportation
All data sources regardless of type (e.g., SAP, mainframe, Oracle E-Business Suite) use the same interface so
that all the complexities of access to these sources are hidden to the user, saving time and money.
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