Informatica SuperGlue Empowers CIOs With Greater Visibility And Control of Enterprise InformationRevolutionary New Metadata Management Software Provides Audit Trail For Data, Systems and Processes Across the Enterprise REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 18, 2003 -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software, today announced Informatica SuperGlue, the first completely Web-based metadata management solution for assembling, visualizing and analyzing information about data and systems across the enterprise. SuperGlue leverages Informatica's data integration and business intelligence software to integrate disparate enterprise metadata and vividly portray and control the movement, lineage and utilization of information assets, enabling organizations to reduce business risk and increase productivity while helping to reduce IT development and maintenance costs. "The unique intelligent lineage capabilities inherent in Informatica SuperGlue will provide both our IT and business users with visibility into the origin and movement of metadata information we use to make critical decisions," said Brian Lillie, vice president, Management Information Systems at Verisign. "SuperGlue will enable us to graphically depict our complex integration architecture and allow us to easily provide an audit trail of the data used to conduct important business analysis." Driven by mounting demands for business efficiency, corporate governance, accountability and responsiveness, today's enterprises require enhanced transparency into their integrated information assets and processes. As CEOs and CFOs face the difficulties of complying with regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II, CIOs are scrambling to produce required documentation. Metadata, or "data about data," is essential to understanding and managing how data is derived, its underlying relationships, and how it is used. SuperGlue is the first metadata management solution to provide business managers with personalized dashboard-driven views that enable them to better understand and more easily audit the complex information flows that inform their decisions and drive regulatory compliance. It is also the first solution to empower IT managers with graphical cross-system visibility into enterprise metadata so they can more readily assess the impact of system and process changes, improve operational performance, and pinpoint data redundancies and opportunities for re-use. "As evolving business opportunities drive organizations to move to the next generation of service-oriented architectures, methods and tools, CIOs will begin to see the growing importance of metadata management," said Mike Blechar, vice president and research director, Gartner. "Metadata management solutions which support the re-use of services, components and data allow enterprises to significantly reduce time-to-market and IT costs while improving application quality and developer productivity." Information Integrity Offers Solid Business Benefits Informatica SuperGlue provides broad benefits in three main areas: reduced business risk, improved business efficiency and reduced business costs. Organizations can use SuperGlue to catalog, associate and search information assets across any number of enterprise systems and data sources. Because the lineage of each piece of information is documented dynamically, organizations can minimize risk with an accurate information audit trail across all their processes. At the same time, managers are able to see at a glance how a modification in a business rule or process affects all other systems and processes, and are thus able to react more intelligently and efficiently to change. Ultimately, the ongoing visibility into information and its origin enabled by SuperGlue helps lower IT costs. Having a cross-enterprise knowledge base of information assets enables data to be used and re-used more effectively, and system resources to be more optimally deployed. Moreover, visibility into data flows and the inter-relationships of assets means that the time spent on developing business intelligence, data warehouse and integration projects can be significantly reduced and such environments can be maintained with fewer resources. "In today's environment, CIOs are increasingly focused on enabling documentation for regulatory compliance, but prior to our SuperGlue solution companies lacked the ability to efficiently track metadata across silos, as well as visibility into how their business data flowed from system to system. Informatica's proven, metadata-centric data integration and business intelligence software provides a foundation that can clearly demonstrate the context around global integration processes," said Girish Pancha, executive vice president of products at Informatica. "We designed Informatica SuperGlue as a FedEx-like tracking system for enterprise data integration -- similar to monitoring package movements, our customers can now easily track and analyze key integration information." Key Features of SuperGlue Solution Coming together for the first time in the metadata management arena, SuperGlue's primary features include: * Intelligent lineage -- This function dynamically captures, documents and graphically presents data flows and dependencies across all systems and processes to provide intelligent audit trails that answer such questions as: "Where did this data come from?" or "How was this result calculated?" Thus armed, decision makers are able to gain insights into whether results are defensible and analyses are sound. * Intuitive analysis and reporting -- Users are able to monitor and analyze their data and data integration processes with Web-based dashboards and other visualization techniques. Managers are able to assess in real time variables such as data quality and usage, as well as detect redundancies and perform change impact analyses. * Personalized directory-SuperGlue includes a searchable catalog of an enterprise's information assets, coupled with their business and technical attributes. This secure knowledge base can be personalized by role and can present logical, physical and process-based views of assets across all enterprise systems and projects. * Built-in integration engine-The heart of SuperGlue is the real-time integration engine that collects metadata from cross-enterprise sources and keeps it perpetually up to date and in a consistent format. Sources include Informatica software and third-party metadata repositories, business intelligence software, applications, databases, flat files, or XML and CWM/XMI sources. * 100 percent Web-based architecture-In contrast to previous generation and functionally limited metadata management solutions, SuperGlue is underpinned by a 100 percent Web-based architecture. Completely open and highly extensible, it handles any information, metadata model or relationship. It also supports portal deployment and the use of Web Services. Pricing and availability Informatica SuperGlue is available today, with pricing starting at $150,000. SuperGlue is a critical component of the Informatica Power Suite of products, which also includes the industry-leading PowerCenter data integration platform and the award-winning PowerAnalyzer business intelligence solution. About Informatica Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA) is a leading provider of data integration and business intelligence software. Using Informatica products, Global 2000 companies can leverage their existing information assets for enterprise insight that helps them improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 1,800 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to meet their end-to-end needs for enterprise data integration and business intelligence. For more information, call 1.650.385.5000 (1.800.970.1179 in the U.S.), or visit the Informatica Web site at http://www.informatica.com. Note: Informatica, Informatica SuperGlue, PowerCenter, PowerAnalyzer and Power Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All other company and product names may be trade names or trademarks of their respective owners.
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