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- Data Integration in Excel (Includes Office 2007) and How to Incorporate It Into Your Applications
- Most users in the world copy paste data into Excel and work. Therefore it is necessary for developers to explore ways in which they can deliver information directly using Excel. This webcast covers various ways in which Excel can integrate with data from various sources including Databases, XML, WMI, Text...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Data Integration, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
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- Nortel Networks Reduces Project Development Time and Improves Customer Service With Informatica Data Integration Platform
- Nortel Networks develops the communication technologies and infrastructure to implement end-to-end broadband, Voice over IP, multimedia services and applications, and wireless broadband for customers in more than 150 countries. Nortel needed a platform sufficiently reliable, robust, open, and scalable to handle increasingly complex development projects more quickly. And it needed...
- Tags: Customer Service, Informatica, Nortel Networks Corp., Project Development, Data Integration
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- Dial Improves Sales Performance With the Informatica Data Integration Platform
- The Dial Corporation, headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz., is $1.7 billion company and is one of America's leading manufacturers of consumer products, including Dial soaps, Purex laundry detergents, Renuzit air fresheners and Armour Star canned meats. The company wanted to create a more sophisticated, robust method for conducting enterprise business analysis....
- Tags: Informatica, Data Integration, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Performance Management, Databases, Sales, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Paymentech Uses the Informatica Data Integration Platform to Build a Real-Time Data Warehouse
- Paymentech, L.P. processes more transactions than any other company in North America - and more than half of all Internet transactions - for businesses accepting payments via traditional point of sale, Internet, catalog and recurring billing. The company wanted to build a flexible real-time data warehouse by eliminating the use...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Informatica, First USA Paymentech, Data Integration, Internet, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Thrifty Car Rental Gains Rapid Increase in Productivity With the Informatica Data Integration Platform
- Thrifty Car Rental and Dollar Rent a Car are subsidiaries of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group. Together Dollar and Thrifty have close to 1,000 rental locations. The company wanted to integrate data from approximately 1,000 locations with national reservation systems in the most cost effective and efficient manner. As a solution...
- Tags: Informatica, Data Integration
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- Europcar Reduces Development, Administration, and Maintenance Costs With Informatica Data Integration Platform
- Founded in Paris in 1949, Europcar is the leading car rental company in Europe. The company needed effective and rigorous decision-support facilities. Europcar needed a complete data integration solution that provided: real-time data, better analysis capabilities and greater reliability and availability. Europcar chose Informatica PowerCenter as an enterprise data integration...
- Tags: Informatica, Administration, Data Integration, Europcar
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- Siperian Case Study: Documentum
- In late 1990s, Documentum now part of EMC was focused on mostly large enterprise software deals to achieve its financial goals. As the market conditions changed, the company made a strategic decision to pursue larger number of deals at a broader set of price points to create a more predictable,...
- Tags: Siperian Inc., Data Integration, Documentum, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales
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- EVERTEC Pioneers Outsourced Data Integration Services With Real-Time Customer Transaction Vault Utilizing Informatica Data Integration Platform
- EVERTEC is the IT outsourcing and transaction processing subsidiary of Popular Inc., a 112- year-old financial holding company based in Puerto Rico, with more than $44.4 billion in assets, 2005 net income of $540.7 million, and operations in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. The company wanted to provide a...
- Tags: Informatica, Outsource, Data Integration, EVERTEC, Telephony, Mainframes, Telecommunications, Databases, Networking, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- RAC Accelerates Time-to-Insight and Drives Increased Revenues and Enhanced Customer Value With Informatica Data Integration Platform
- Determined to place the customer at the centre of its business processes, RAC launched a programme for business change, dubbed Customer Centric Management CCM. Integral to this new business model was a Customer Data Warehouse CDW which would have to centralise data from disparate operating units, provide a single view...
- Tags: Revenue, Informatica, Data Integration, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
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- BAX Global Improves Business Operations and Productivity Leveraging the Informatica Data Integration Platform
- BAX Global is one of the world's leading international freight transportation and supply chain management companies. The company wanted to globally integrate customer and sales information to improve decision-making processes and increase sales. The company deployed Informatica PowerCenter. This resulted in improved business operations and decisionmaking capabilities, increased development productivity...
- Tags: Informatica, Data Integration, BAX Global, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Transportation, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Sales, Enterprise Software, Software
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- COPIC Insurance Realizes Cost Savings Using the Informatica Data Integration Platform
- COPIC Insurance Company provides medical professional liability insurance to physicians, hospitals, and medical entities such as managed-care plans and county health departments in Colorado and Nebraska. The company wanted to migrate from a legacy mainframe system to a client server environment with limited resources and under time pressures. The company...
- Tags: Informatica, Data Integration, Mainframes, Insurance, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Servers, Hardware, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Ameren Corporation Powers Legacy Customer Data Integration for Smooth Merger & Acquisition Transition With Informatica Enterprise Data Integration Platform
- Ameren Corporation, based in St. Louis, Missouri, has 2.3 million electric and 900,000 natural gas customers in Missouri and Illinois and is the second-largest utility in Illinois. The company wanted to convert and migrate large volumes of legacy data, through a standardized and reusable platform, to achieve a single view...
- Tags: Informatica, Merger, M&A, Ameren Corp., Data Integration, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Finance
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- Executive Perspective: True Information Integration, featuring Cisco's Gary Bridge
- This paper offers highlights from an interview with Cisco senior vice president Gary Bridge and other data integration experts. It presents new approaches to creating a Service Oriented Architecture for integrating structured and unstructured transactional and content-based data, with a goal toward enhancing the customer experience.
- Tags: Information Integration, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Integration
- White papers
- Lighthouse Realizes Its Vision to Revolutionize Patient Treatment and Case Management
- LightHouse International LHI, a global leader in providing care to people who are visually impaired, needed to replace manual, qualitative business processes with quantitative client assessment and evaluation methods. LHI contracted Microsoft Services to help develop an integrated case management and data integration application built on the Microsoft .NET Framework,...
- Tags: Patient, Case Management, Vision, Microsoft Corp., Data Integration, Lighthouse, Corporate Law, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance
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- Data Integration Solution Boasts Ease of Use
- Software Labs develops advanced data management solutions. When designing eXamin Fusion, Software Labs considered Java, but chose to build the product with C#, Windows Forms, Microsoft ADO.NET, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Windows Forms made it easy to give the product a rich graphical user interface, and ADO.NET made it...
- Tags: Ease Of Use, Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Corp., Data Integration, Software Labs, Data Management, .Net, Microsoft Windows, Databases, C#, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Programming Languages, Hardware
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- Amena Relies on Informatica Data Integration Platform to Implement New CRM System and Maintain Competitive Advantage
- Amena's customer service representatives lacked a holistic view of customer data. Without current, detailed customer data, representatives were unable to answer questions accurately, provide timely service or extend cross- or up-sell offers. Amena decided to implement a sophisticated, analytical-based CRM system with a 100-percent customer-oriented architecture. Known as the Avanza...
- Tags: CRM System, Informatica, Competitive Advantage, Data Integration, CRM, Amena, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Advertising & Promotion, Software, Marketing
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- Demystifying Data Integration: Making Data Pay Off
- Most organisations take data integration for granted at some level. The fact of the matter is that data integration has become so broad that all but the most committed are in a position to fully exploit their data assets. Fortunately, as data integration matures, it becomes easier for organisations to...
- Tags: Data Integration
- Webcasts
- Interbank Increases Development Productivity by 50%
- As Interbank's business evolved it became increasingly critical to better understand the risk factors facing each potential customer in order to tailor a risk-based price offering that was competitive, but at the same time, did not expose the bank. Interbank needed to collect vast amounts of data in a new...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Data Integration, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Henry Schein Gains More Visibility Into Sales Using the Informatica Data Integration Platform
- Henry Schein, Inc. is the largest distributor of healthcare products and services to office-based healthcare practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. The company wanted to integrate customer and sales data from a variety of relational and non-relational systems into a central repository for strategic analysis. The company...
- Tags: Informatica, Henry Schein Inc., Health Care, Data Integration, Sales Strategy, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Seagate Technology Improves Data Consistency and Eliminates Manual Coding With Human Resources Data Hub Based on Informatica Data Integration Platform
- Founded in 1979, Seagate Technology is the world's leading manufacturer of hard disc drives for enterprise, consumer, desktop, and mobile systems. The company wanted to replace a complex legacy point-to-point Human Resources HR data infrastructure supplying data to more than 100 downstream applications with a streamlined HR data hub to...
- Tags: Human Resources, Informatica, Data Integration, Seagate Technology LLC
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