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Informatica and Cloudera Unleash the Power of Hadoop

Turn Big Data Challenges into Big Opportunities
In this era of Big Data there are a variety of challenges facing organizations today. Data volumes are exploding exponentially with more social and interaction data, more data variety with a whole slew of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data formats, and more data velocity range down to microseconds. Organizations are turning to Hadoop to address some of these Big Data challenges. However, Hadoop introduces its own complexities that need to be addressed for enterprise readiness and scalability. Informatica and Cloudera have teamed up to overcome these challenges and unleash the power of Hadoop. Now companies can leverage Informaticas data integration platform with Clouderas Distribution of Hadoop to increase developer productivity, simplify deployment and maintenance, and govern data in Hadoop with other data across the enterprise. Informaticas high performance, universal connectivity now enables companies to get most any data into and out of Hadoop. Companies can leverage Informatica for pre- and post-processing of the data including parsing and transforming structured and unstructured data, data cleansing, identity resolution, data masking and master data management.

Informatica Corporation
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Company Overview
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today's global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives. More than 4,440 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise, off premise and in the Cloud

Product Overview
The Informatica Platform is the first comprehensive, unified, and open software platform specifically designed for data integration. Our open, platform-neutral software accesses data of virtually all types and makes it accessible, meaningful, and usable to the people and processes that need it. With products that encourage collaboration across the enterprise, Informatica reduces costs, speeds time to results, and scales to handle data integration projects of any size or complexity

The Informatica and Cloudera Joint Solution

Informatica together with Cloudera helps you get more from your Hadoop investments and leverage existing data integration and ETL skill sets. The Informatica platform provides: Universal data access Maximize the business value from Big Data at any volume, velocity and variety. Ensure repeatability and maintainability with native data access to all of your data. Promote flexibility in choosing where to keep source data between Hadoop and other systems. Virtualize access to any data in and out of Hadoop Data parsing and exchange Reduce development time and maintenance costs of parsing and transforming any data formats with a visual design environment Define and deploy any parser on Hadoop for complex and unstructured data sources. Data quality and governance Promote trust and governance in reporting and analytics with Hadoop Increase efficiency in uncovering and fixing data characteristics and data quality issues. Improve collaboration between analysts and developers through data profiling and data virtualization

Solution Highlights
Derive maximum business value from Big Data on Hadoop with universal data access Increase productivity and improve maintainability through metadata-driven development and auditability Combine flexibility and scalability with high data processing power Promote trust and governance in reporting and analytics Meet data service levels with enterpriseready high throughput data provisioning

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Metadata management and auditability Align business and IT through a common taxonomy of metadata definitions including business terms and technical definitions. Shorten project delivery with end-to-end personalized lineage and reduce risk through data audits and monitoring. Processing in Hadoop Take advantage of the high data processing power for transformation logic Decouple data processing logic to design once and deploy anywhere in a hybrid IT environment High throughput data provisioning Meet data service levels that require years of data to microseconds using Hadoop and other enterprise systems Ensure up-to-date data delivery between Hadoop and the rest of the enterprise - batch, mini-batch, change data, streaming data, and message data. Improve data processing by efficient partitioning and redistribution of data in Hadoop with data profiling

You can now deploy an enterprise-ready data integration platform using Informatica, the industry leader in data integration, and the industry leading Hadoop distribution powered by Cloudera. Informatica provides a comprehensive, unified, and open software platform specifically designed for big data integration.

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About Clouderas Distribution Including Apache Hadoop

Available for free download at www.cloudera.com/downloads, CDH delivers a streamlined path for putting Apache Hadoop to work solving business problems in production. Ideal for enterprises seeking a stable, tested Hadoop solution without proprietary vendor lock-in, CDH is the bridge between the insights of organizations using Hadoop in production and the continuous stream of innovations from the Apache community.

About Cloudera
Cloudera is the leading provider of Apache Hadoop-based software and services and works with customers in financial services, web, telecommunications, government and other industries. The company's products, Cloudera Enterprise and Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop, help organizations profit from all of their information. Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop is the most comprehensive Apache Hadoop-based platform in the industry. Cloudera Enterprise is the most costeffective way to perform large-scale data storage and analysis and includes the tools, platform and support necessary to use Apache Hadoop in a production environment. For more on Cloudera, please visit www.cloudera.com.

About Informatica Corporation

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the worlds number one independent provider of data integration software. Organizations around the world gain a competitive advantage in todays global information economy with trustworthy, actionable, and authoritative data for their top business imperatives. More than 4,200 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate, and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise, off premise, and in the cloud.

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