Informatica Conforms to Metadata Standard

by M. Reed ... the page. Other tool vendors, such as Informatica's competitor Ardent Software, have used a different approach. Ardent has employed ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/11/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_11_10_99_1.asp - 6k Summary: Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA), a major extract/transform/load tool vendor, today announced the general availability of MX2 1.6, the latest version of its Metadata Exchange (MX2) application programming interface (API). Informatica bills MX2 1.6 as the first object-oriented metadata exchange faci

Informatica Morphs into Enterprise Decision Support Vendor

by M. Reed ... Diagrams (ERD's) for schemas to be imported into Informatica's metadata repository, which allows model changes to be synchronized with the ETL tool. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/01/research_notes/VN_DW_MFR_01_00_1.asp - 17k Summary: Informatica Corporation, long an established vendor in the Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) market space, has morphed themselves into a vendor of solutions for the

Sybase Tag-Teams with Informatica

by M. Reed ... ÿþSybase Tag-Teams with Informatica M. Reed - April 25th, 2000 Event Summary. "Sybase, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYBS) and Informatica Corporation ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/04/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_04_25_00_1.asp - 8k Summary: Sybase® (NASDAQ: SYBS) has signed a worldwide OEM agreement with Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) to resell Informatica’s extract/transform/load tool PowerMart® along with Sybase’s new vertical application suite known as Industry Warehouse Studio®. This is yet another move by a database ven

Informatica Powers Siebel’s New eBusiness Analytics

by M. Reed ... All of what were formerly known as ETL tool vendors (Informatica, Ardent, Sagent, Computer Associates, and others) are now re-branding themselves as ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/12/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_12_19_00_1.asp - 7k Summary: Siebel Systems is incorporating Informatica’s data integration platform into Siebel eBusiness Analytics 2000.3. The vendors hope to use the integrated product to consolidate data into a 'comprehensive e-business data warehouse'. Have the vendors found the e-business holy grail?

Informix XML’s Its Metadata Transport Layer

by M. Reed ... are following the same path as Informix, so we expect Informatica to respond ... Any ETL tool needs to be able to exchange metadata with enterprise repositories of ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_05_22_00_1.asp - 8k Summary: Informix® Corporation, has announced an XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for Extraction, Transformation, and Transport (ETT) of metadata. The DTD is designed to allow metadata sharing between different vendors’ products using the open XML standard.

Ardent Software: Will Informix Merger Affect their Success?

by M. Reed ... Prism's mainframe based ETL tool provides Ardent with mainframe job scheduling ... In addition, some other ETL vendors, particularly Informatica, are considered to ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/04/research_notes/VN_DW_MFR_04_10_00_1.asp - 15k Summary: With Informix’s completion of its acquisition of Ardent Software, it remains to be seen how effective this marriage will be, and whether Ardent will be allowed autonomy to continue its success in the extract/transform/load and data integration infrastructure.

Metadata Standards in the Marketplace – Why Do I Care? (And ...

by M. Reed ... tools whose vendors have developed the "plug-ins" to the Informatica product. ... chosen, care must be taken to ensure that each additional tool interoperates with ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/05/research_notes/MN_DW_MFR_05_16_00_1.asp - 18k Summary: Metadata (“data about data”) is essential for data warehousing. Metadata standards allow different products to interact. Without standards, different vendors’ tools cannot work together seamlessly and the customer’s warehousing effort is greatly complicated.

Computer Associates Splashes Into the Data Warehousing Market with ...

by M. Reed ... of DecisionBase 1.0, a combination of a GUI mapping tool (developed in ... control the general market, including Ardent, Computer Associates, Informatica, and Sagent ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/1999/09/research_notes/PN_DW_MFR_9_99_1.asp - 17k Summary: Computer Associates DecisionBase is an Extract/Transform/Load tool designed to help in the population and maintenance of data warehouses. First released in March of 1998, the product is geared towards large implementations with the need for metadata management. The current release is 1.9, which is the fo

Has The BI Market Consolidation Been Crystal-Clearly Actuated? ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... vendors see "research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2003/08 ... Web-based query-and-reporting tool. ... two BI vendors (eg, Informatica, MicroStrategy, Information ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2003/08/news_analysis/NA_DW_PJ_08_19_03_1.asp - 19k Summary: Users choosing point planning or BI products should consider the integration infrastructure and effort needed to combine these products versus the cost and functionality issues of choosing an integrated CPM product suite (if still possible to find). Mission-critical issues like scalability, reliability,

Acta Gets Active

by M. Reed ... Customers needing a quicker solution should investigate vendors already in the market with the required technology (ie, Informatica and Informix/Ardent). http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2000/05/news_analysis/NA_DW_MFR_05_25_00_1.asp - 7k Summary: Active Software, Inc. a provider of e-business infrastructure software products, and Acta Technology, Inc., an extract/transform/load tool vendor, today announced a partnership that will help to enable real-time business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce.