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Informatica SuperGlue
Robust Metadata Analysis for Data Integration

As a key capability of PowerCenter Advanced Edition, metadata analysis (provided through SuperGlue), integrates metadata from disparate systems for enhanced understanding of an organization's IT environment. With access to all metadata, organizations have cross-system reporting for managing their enterprise information assets that helps to drive accuracy and increase efficiencies throughout all enterprise integration initiatives.

Metadata, or “data about data,” promotes understanding and management of how information assets and processes are derived, the fundamental relationships between them, and how they are used. Understanding of these relationships is critical in establishing enterprise-wide system audit trails in support large-scale integration initiatives.

Leveraging the metadata analysis and reporting capabilities in PowerCenter, organizations can:

• Drive accuracy and speed delivery of data to the business— Quickly identify information asset redundancies, process flows and data lineage
  
• Manage change— Assess and manage impact of change to enterprise data and systems
  
• Improve productivity —Improve operational efficiency
  

Drive accuracy and speed delivery of data to the business
Informatica's metadata analysis and reporting capabilities have the ability to collect and access metadata from disparate sources, while also providing rich reporting capabilities. Web-based reporting provides IT organizations a way to monitor and assess data quality, content, usage, and performance. Organizations can quickly and cost-effectively deploy customized reports in support of their data integration efforts.

SuperGlue also provides information about data flows that allows IT to verify data integration processes.  Enterprise-wide data flows are graphically represented, accessible via web-based data-ready reports, making available information about the progression of data from source to destination. IT can expose valuable metadata to enrich and speed integration of data, track and tune data flow performance, and quickly identify failure of integration processes. This allows for quick assessment and verification-for both technical analysis and regulatory requirements-that data is processed correctly, accurately, and efficiently.

Assess and manage impact of change to enterprise data and systems
Determining the impact of modifications to enterprise data is a complex, time-consuming and prevalent problem across most data integration initiatives. In a data intensive environment, one simple change in data can adversely affect systems across the enterprise, and instantly invalidate data models, break reports, and create global inconsistency. SuperGlue's metadata analysis capabilities graphically depict dependencies across all systems and data types.  Dependencies are quickly identified using a robust data-ready reporting tool that can identify and expose specific data objects requiring change.

Improve operational efficiency
Data integration development is traditionally hampered by a lack of knowledge about the data itself.  Finding and identifying the data required, as well as determining just where that data exists, can take up to 70 percent of the time in a data integration project.  And without a firm grasp of such basic information, planning is nearly impossible.

Metadata provides the information needed for efficient data integration development.  By providing descriptive information data, what it is, where it's located, metadata provides an accurate map of the data terrain.  Metadata analysis and data-ready reporting then allows accurate specification of project schedules, costs, and both human and computer resources.  Metadata provides the foundational information by which project planning becomes feasible.