The widespread takeup of outsourcing will help drive the coming wave of data integration requirements. This was a pivotal point made during the keynote address delivered by Sohaib Abbasi, president and CEO of data integration software provider Informatica at Informatica World 2005, held recently in Washington.
During the address Abbasi highlighted trends in cross-enterprise data integration that will better enable the virtual enterprise.
Customers and partners of Informatica heard how cross-enterprise data integration is increasingly a strategic necessity and detailed how innovations in data integration will enable the "virtual enterprise" by overcoming the constraints of organisational and IT system boundaries.
"In recent years, the need for data integration has expanded far beyond data warehousing to encompass all types of analytic and operational initiatives. We`re now seeing a new wave of requirements as a result of organisations` increased outsourcing of business functions and processes," says Abbasi. "As more functions and processes are outsourced, the associated IT systems are being further fragmented. As a result, organisations have even less control of and visibility into business-critical data. The next wave of data integration solutions will extend control and visibility - across both in-house and outsourced systems - to make the virtual enterprise concept a reality."
Abbasi`s address noted that in order to meet the demands of both enterprise and cross-enterprise data integration, organisations require a robust, integrated, high-performance and scalable platform. He also revealed details of the next major release of Informatica`s data integration platform, codenamed Zeus.
"Informatica`s strategic product roadmap has anticipated customers` desires to move from departmental data warehousing projects to enterprise-wide data integration initiatives and now to cross-enterprise data integration imperatives," says Charl Barnard, GM of Informatica at local distributor, Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID).
"Informatica continues to advance the platform to enable universal access and integration of all data as well as ensure reliable, high-performance and scalable global deployments."
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Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, visualise and audit their enterprise information assets to help improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 2 000 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs. Informatica is distributed, supported and maintained in SA by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID).
For more information, call +27 11 462 1277, or visit www.informatica.com or www.kid.co.za.
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