Informatica Data Quality Product
Data Quality for Performance Management
Empowering Business Professionals to Manage Data Quality Across the Enterprise
Informatica Data Quality is specifically designed to put the control of data quality processes in the hands of business professionals. With unparalleled ease-of-use, the software delivers powerful data cleansing, data matching, and reporting and data quality monitoring capabilities in a single solution. Data analysts and data stewards use Informatica Data Quality to easily design, manage, deploy, and control individual and enterprise-wide data quality initiatives. By providing a complete platform for ongoing measurement, monitoring, tracking, and data quality improvement at multiple points across the organization, Informatica Data Quality empowers business information owners to implement and manage effective and lasting data quality processes.
Benefits
- Reduces risk and costs by quickly identifying poor data management and handling processes through continuous monitoring of key data quality indicators
- Enables better decision making based on complete and accurate customer, product, inventory, sales, financial and all other data in your enterprise
- Increases revenues by providing organizations with the high-quality data needed to improve internal and external supply chain processes, leading to better inventory and asset management.
Key Features
Data Cleansing. Informatica Data Quality features comprehensive data cleansing and parsing capabilities, which enable data analysts and data stewards to standardize, validate, enhance, and correct all types of enterprise data, including customer, product, financial, inventory, asset, and order data. The software features address validation for all countries. It also identifies, verifies, parses, and standardizes free-form text data elements through easily configurable business rules that reduce the effort necessary to automate cleansing and data transform. With these capabilities, Informatica Data Quality empowers business professionals to manage and deploy ongoing or one-off data quality programs enterprise-wide, minimizing risk. At the same time the software increases IT productivity and minimizes impact on limited IT resources.
Data Matching. Informatica Data Quality features robust and flexible data matching capabilities, which enable data analysts and data stewards to identify relationships between data records for de-duplication or group-based processing. Matching is central to maintaining data consistency and integrity throughout the enterprise. The software processes multiple sets of business rules concurrently and uses "householding" techniques to identify members of common households or corporations. Informatica Data Quality provides maximum transparency in standardization and matching functions, which provides users with visibility into—and control over—standardization and matching processes.
Data Quality Reporting and Monitoring. Informatica Data Quality features dynamic data quality reporting and monitoring capabilities. This enables data analysts and data stewards to support and drive the methodology for ongoing data quality management and improvement with a single, easy-to-use solution. The software provides management-level data quality scorecards that monitor key attributes of data quality (such as; completeness, conformity, consistency, accuracy, de-duplication, and integrity) across all data types and sources. With Informatica Data Quality, users can access out-of-the-box data quality reports. Drill-down reports enable users to zoom in from high-level views to inspect low-quality data records individually. They can create dashboards that can be exported to BI reporting tools or published to a company's Intranet to allow users to monitor data quality over time. With these data reporting and monitoring capabilities, organizations can improve overall data quality over the long term by being able to track improvements against realistic targets on an attribute-by-attribute basis. Companies can then establish a metric-driven process for managing data quality enterprise-wide that helps build the business case for executing data quality initiatives.
Data Quality Workbench. Informatica Data Quality features a graphical user interface-based Data Quality Workbench, which business professionals use to design, build, and manage individual data cleansing projects or more complex, enterprise-wide data quality initiatives. The Workbench provides a familiar interface for anyone who is used to dealing with Windows-based applications. The Data Quality Workbench increases IT's efficiency, effectiveness, and responsiveness to the business, by empowering information owners to resolve data quality problems themselves, rather than having to rely on overstretched IT departments, which don't "own" the data.
Open, Content-based Dictionaries. Informatica Data Quality features open, content-based reference data dictionaries that can be created, edited, and added to at any point in time. The flexibility of the product means that Informatica, third party, and customer-generated reference dictionaries can be used together to analyze and standardize content, and to implement data quality business rules. These dictionaries have full read/write capability and familiar Microsoft Excel-like functionality. These dictionaries enable flexible, easy solution customization based on internal and external reference data.
Support for All Enterprise Data Types. No other product offers support of a broader reach of enterprise data sources and data types. The software was designed to provide a data quality framework to be used to parse, standardize, match and monitor any type of data. Not limited to simply customer name and address cleansing, Informatica Data Quality is deployed by both industry and government agencies to manage the total quality of product, financial, inventory, pricing, asset, and other data. Informatica Data Quality can be used to cleanse, match, report, and monitor industry-specific data types (e.g., product data for the consumer packaged goods industry, asset data for utilities).
High Scalability. Ready for enterprise-wide deployment, this robust client-server data quality software can be deployed across a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Unix. It can run interactively, as scheduled batch jobs or in real-time as part of an application. The software supports multiple users working in a collaborative environment. It also supports a mature design/build/test/deploy process, enabling organizations to re-use data quality rules across the enterprise Informatica Data Quality leverages hardware resources across the network to handle large data sets and complex data profiling and data quality requirements.
Global Language Support. Informatica Data Quality provides global language support. The software is Unicode-compliant, which enables the software to work with Latin and non-Latin character sets such as Russian, Polish, Chinese, and Japanese. This support allows organizations to easily expand their data quality programs across the enterprise globally, improving data quality overall and over time to meet the demands of today's global economy.
Why Does Your Business Need Informatica Data Quality?
Empower Business Professionals to Take Control of Data Quality Initiatives
Informatica Data Quality helps business professionals take control of enterprise-wide data quality initiatives and solve the pervasive problem of poor data quality. With an interface that is familiar to anyone who uses Windows-based applications, Informatica Data Quality is easy to use. The software redefines who tackles data quality problems within global organizations, transferring ownership of data accuracy, completeness, and integrity across multiple enterprise applications from IT departments to business data owners.
Manage Enterprise-wide Data Quality Initiatives
Achieving the high levels of data quality needed for a business to prosper is more than a one-off exercise. The only way to ensure the success of ongoing data quality initiatives is with an enterprise-class, highly scalable data quality solution. Informatica Data Quality is ready for enterprise-wide deployment. This robust client-server data quality solution can be deployed across a number of platforms, including Windows and Unix. The software supports multiple users working in a collaborative environment. It also supports a mature design, build, test and deploy process, enabling organizations to re-use data quality rules across the enterprise, and deploy those rules in batch or real-time environments to drive ongoing data quality analysis, reporting, cleansing, and transformation. Informatica Data Quality leverages hardware resources across the network to handle large data sets and complex data profiling and data quality requirements. Not limited to simply name and address cleansing, Informatica Data Quality works with all data types, including customer, financial, inventory, and materials data. Informatica Data Quality also incorporates Unicode, enabling the data quality suite to work with Latin and non-Latin character sets such as Russian, Polish, Chinese, and Japanese-so the software is ready to meet the demands of today's global economy. With all its robust capabilities, Informatica Data Quality helps provide the foundation for managing data quality enterprise-wide.
Accelerate Data Quality Initiatives
Informatica Data Quality uses a centralized approach to data quality management. The software provides a comprehensive library of reference data and pre-configured data quality business rules. Since these rules are used in parallel with the customized rules and internal reference data that each organization needs to manage its own specific data quality issues, data quality initiatives can be implemented more quickly enterprise-wide.
Learn More
Product / Service FactsheetsApplication Brief
RSS Feeds
