using informatica mdm as a business intelligence platform

#USING INFORMATICA MDM AS A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM SOFTWARE#

Among other things, this integration enables Siperian’s identity resolution functions to be embedded within the PowerCenter platform under the name Informatica Identification Resolution. Returning to Informatica and Siperian, let’s recall that for years now the Siperian hub has been integrated with Informatica PowerCenter (similar to pre-existing integration among IBM and Initiate products). My impression is that IBMers are hoping Initiate’s identity resolution functionality will help them sell more products and services into these industries. IBM’s campaign for a Smarter Planet has strong subsets focused on healthcare and government, two industries where Initiate has reference clients doing sophisticated things with identity resolution. For example, IBMers were very clear that their primary interest in Initiate is its ability to very accurately match data references to patients in healthcare and citizens in government. You could say that Siperian is mostly MDM, but with identity resolution and other capabilities, whereas Initiate is mostly about identity resolution, but with MDM and other capabilities.Ģ - So, the two acquisitions are about identity resolution? And I forgot to mention that Initiate also has some MDM capabilities. The way that I think of it, Initiate’s hub isn’t for MDM per se, but it can improve MDM when embedded within it.Īt this point, I need to cycle back to Siperian and point out that it, too, provides identity resolution capabilities. Initiate’s identity resolution capabilities are commonly embedded within applications for MDM and customer data integration (CDI). Initiate, on the other hand, is well-known for its identity resolution hub. It has attained one of the holy grails among MDM solutions, in that it works with multiple data domains (that’s data about customers, products, financials, and other domains). Siperian is well-known for its master data management (MDM) solution. I’ll organize my thoughts around some questions I’ve just seen in the blogosphere and my Twitter deck. So let me help you by making some useful comparisons – and some differentiations that you may not be aware of. If you work in data management or a related field, these are noteworthy announcements coming from noteworthy vendors, and, therefore, worth understanding. This bears strong resemblance to Informatica’s announcement a few days ago (on January 28, 2010) about their completion of the acquisition of Siperian.

So that’s what I’m thinking about today (February 3, 2010), after hearing that IBM intends to acquire Initiate Systems.

#USING INFORMATICA MDM AS A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM SOFTWARE#

I don’t know about you, but when I read two, similar announcements from competing software vendors, delivered at pretty much the same time, I can’t help but compare them. Special Note: This analysis was written by Philip Russom, Wayne's colleague in TDWI's research department who covers MDM and data integration. IBM and Informatica Acquire MDM Capabilities

Using informatica mdm as a business intelligence platform