New Study Highlights Integration Imperatives Around Complex Big Data

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 18, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- News Facts:

-- Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one
independent provider of data integration software, today announced the
availability of a new research report from the Aberdeen Group that shows
how organizations can get the most from their data integration assets in
the face of rapidly growing data volumes and increasing data complexity.
-- Entitled: Future Integration Needs: Embracing Complex Data, the Aberdeen
report reveals that:
-- Big Data is the new reality - In 2010, organizations experienced a
staggering average data volume growth of 40 percent.
-- XML adoption has increased dramatically - XML is the most common
semi-structured data source that organizations integrate. 74 percent
of organizations are integrating XML from external sources. 66 percent
of organizations are integrating XML from internal sources.
-- Data complexity is skyrocketing - In the next 12 months enterprises
plan to introduce more complex unstructured data sources - including
office productivity documents, email, web content and social media
data - than any other data type.
-- External data sources are proliferating - On average, organizations
are integrating 14 external data sources, up from 11 a year ago.
-- Integration costs are rising - As integration of external data rises,
it continues to be a labor- and cost-intensive task, with
organizations integrating external sources spending 25 percent of
their total integration budget in this area.
-- For example, according to Aberdeen, organizations that have effectively
integrated complex data are able to:
-- Use up to 50 percent larger data sets for business intelligence and
analytics.
-- Integrate twice as successfully external unstructured data into
business processes (40 percent vs. 19 percent).
-- Deliver critical information in the required time window 2.5 times
more often via automated data refresh.
-- Slash the incidence of errors in their data almost in half compared to
organizations relying on manual intervention when performing data
updates and refreshes.
-- Spend an average of 43 percent less on integration software (based on
2010 spend).
-- Develop integration competence more quickly with significantly lower
services and support expenditures, resulting in less costly business
results.
-- Based on these findings, Aberdeen concludes that, as growth in data
volumes and complexity accelerates, organizations should:
-- Fully automate the data transformation of complex data (including
unstructured data, semi-structured data and XML).
-- Focus on quality assured data exchange (ensure data consistency and
accuracy from the point of entry).
-- Consolidate data transformation and exchange capabilities in a single
platform to support data warehousing, real time integration and big
data scenarios to achieve economy of scale and ensure that the entire
integration cycle is automated.
-- The Aberdeen report is based on data collected in June, 2011 from 112
organizations actively engaged in data integration.

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Supporting Quotes:

-- "Complex data, including XML unstructured data, and semi-structured data
is increasingly used and growing in importance to organizations," said
David White, Senior Analyst, Aberdeen Group. "Aberdeen research found
that organizations are making significant investments to harness more
complex data from internal and external sources."
-- "Aberdeen's latest research underscores how companies benefit from
integrating complex data, especially as the Big Data trend continues
accelerating," said Juan Carlos Soto, senior vice president and general
manager, B2B Data Exchange and Cloud Data Integration, Informatica.
"Informatica's offerings enable companies to maximize their return on
data.Using Informatica B2B Data Transformation and B2B Data Exchange to
efficiently deliver and onboard even the most complex data, customers
have reported reducing their partner on-boarding time by 80 percent,
lowering their maintenance costs by 90 percent, and increasing their
first year revenue by over 8 percent."

Additional Links

-- B2B Data Transformation
-- B2B Data Exchange

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