Informatica and MicroStrategy Deliver Metadata Integration
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Informatica Corp. has announced an expansion of its relationship with MicroStrategy Incorporated to further integrate its flagship data warehousing "build and manage" software, PowerMart, with MicroStrategy's DSS Agent 5.5 ROLAP product at the metadata level. The integration is part of MicroStrategy's recently announced Metadata Extraction Transformation Loading (ETL) program which provides joint customers with a clear, business-oriented view into the full data warehouse life cycle and increasing data warehouse usage among decision-makers.
This announcement is the latest effort from Informatica and MicroStrategy to jointly provide the industry with advanced metadata integration solutions. In early 1997 the two companies unveiled a metadata bridge linking their respective products at the repository level, enabling business users to view all decision support metadata from their desktops.
"When we initiated our first ETL integration with Informatica through its Metadata Exchange (MX) program, the industry response was very positive," said Sanju K. Bansal, chief operating officer for MicroStrategy Incorporated. "The vision we had was to promote rapid application deployment, reduce database maintenance, and offer a means of system documentation via the DSS Agent interface. With the release of DSS Agent 5.5, Informatica's support of our ETL program will enable joint customers to continue to fully exploit the power of end-to-end metadata integration."
"Informatica is pleased to extend PowerMart's integration with MicroStrategy's DSS Agent to include support for their ETL integration program," said Diaz Nesamoney, president of Informatica. "Metadata integration among disparate products is an essential part of a company's overarching decision support strategy, and it is imperative that leaders such as Informatica and MicroStrategy continue to deliver greater levels of interoperability. PowerMart's tight integration with MicroStrategy's DSS Agent provides customers with a foundation for tomorrow's decision support infrastructure that will maximize the efficiencies and minimize the risks of the most ambitious business intelligence tool deployments."
Informatica's MX2 initiative enables integration among a wide variety of decision support resources, including enterprise data modeling applications, business intelligence tools, analytic applications, OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) products and other front end query tools from multiple vendors through enterprise-wide metadata synchronization. This relieves customers of the burden of identifying products that work together and, for the first time, assures seamless interoperability between them so that business rules and data definitions remain consistent throughout an enterprise.
MicroStrategy's Extraction-Transformation-Loading (ETL) Program is a multi-company initiative which provides end-users with a seamless view of enterprise ETL metadata via MicroStrategy's DSS Agent interface. In collaboration with the leading vendors in the ETL market, MicroStrategy seeks to bring new functionality to the desktop while adding value to the ETL and ROLAP components of a business intelligence solution.
Informatica has more than 290 customers worldwide, and maintains strategic partnerships with Cambridge Technology Partners, EDS, Ernst & Young, Geac, KPMG, Microsoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, SAP AG and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG. Informatica is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. For more information, see http://www.informatica.com