Partnership combines business intelligence and best-in-class data for agility and self-service analytics to help customers answer the world’s toughest questions with trusted data
Informatica has expanded its partnership with Tableau Software. Together, the two organizations are delivering insights and understanding for business users at the speed they require, while ensuring IT controls are in place. Uniting Tableau’s self-service analytics with Informatica’s clean, trusted data and rich metadata enables business users to make even faster and smarter decisions with the support and blessings of IT. Together, the companies are providing the industry’s first end-to-end architecture and framework for agile business intelligence.
Self-service analytics has revolutionized business decision making, empowering business users with new levels of speed and convenience. This is especially important in this day and age of big data, where organizations are required to support more users, who need more data from more sources, and want to do so more easily than ever before. Yet, decisions are only as valid as the data that supports them. How can business professionals trust their insights unless they are assured they are based on meaningful and trusted data?
Business users and IT alike are frustrated with data that results from traditional waterfall processes and lengthy cycles. Business users are further aggravated by lack of easy access to key data sources and the inability to easily combine data across sources. Meanwhile, IT is naturally concerned over the use and proliferation of potentially poor quality data.
To overcome these challenges, the architecture and framework leverages a suite of Informatica solutions for accessing, integrating and preparing data from disparate sources that can be easily analyzed by anyone in Tableau, including Informatica PowerExchange, Cloud, Data Prep 4Tableau, MetaData Manager and Informatica Marketing Data Lake, said the release.
Christian Chabot, CEO and Co-founder, Tableau said, “People want fast, agile, visual analytics that let them ask and answer their own questions, while providing IT with the governance, performance, security and reliability they need. Timely, authoritative data and rich metadata are keys to effective BI. By working together, Tableau and Informatica are providing the trusted data – no matter where it lies – to help people quickly analyze, visualize and share information.”
Anil Chakravarthy, CEO, Informatica added, “Tableau and Informatica is a marriage made in heaven, satisfying the requirements of business users and IT in equal measure. Together our companies are able to deliver on the promise of ‘great data in, great self-service analytics out,’ which is the goal of every business and IT user. Business users can leverage self-service Informatica solutions to easily access and integrate data across any cloud or on-premise source, and quickly cleanse and prepare the data for use in Tableau. At the same time, IT is able to govern the data without compromising the agility of self-service analytic users.”
