Informatica Research Report Sample

Many business processes across industries are inherently information-driven. Data drives most processes running in organizations today. Data is the lifeblood of many enterprise processes to drive its products/services, customer relationships, business partnerships and internal regulatory compliance efforts. An increasing proportion of these enterprise processes relies on data from multiple sources that, in many cases, originate across departmental and enterprise boundaries.

Providing timely and trusted data is key to getting visibility into these processes and making them more agile. For example, a manufacturing organization can better manage its inventory by accurately shrinking order lead times by transparently accessing and integrating business-to-business (B2B) data flowing across its supply chain. Retail organizations that have fingertip access to up-to-the-minute sales data can better plan replenishment schedules and eliminate potential stock-outs. And with a single view of the customer, financial services organizations can effectively cross-sell and up-sell additional services.

Business processes that need to be effective in driving competitive advantage thus require the integration of a wide range of data sources, applications, protocols, people and partners. By design these processes must be able to access a variety of applications and different types of data at different times to drive business agility.