“By extending Informatica’s Metadata Manager with Appfluent’s insight into who, when and how data is being used, Informatica customers will be able to better manage their Enterprise Data Warehouse and Integration Competency Center environments. We are pleased to welcome Appfluent to the INFORM Partner Program, and look forward to seeing joint customers benefit from this richer operational metadata.“

- Girish Pancha
  INFORMATICA Executive Vice President and General Manager

 

Appfluent, an Informatica INFORM partner, extends Informatica’s data integration solutions to enable enterprises to manage data as a strategic asset.

Information Life Cycle Management

With IT budgets shrinking while business needs and data growth explodes, enterprises need visibility to justify costs and prioritize resources and projects that deliver the most value to the business.

Appfluent extends Informatica’s solutions by providing visibility into business activity and data usage to enable you to manage the complete lifecycle of information delivered by your data warehousing and data integration initiatives.

To intelligently manage the life cycle of data delivery to the business, enterprises need to continually have answers to the following:

• What and how are business users leveraging data to deliver value?

• Who, when and how is data being used by the business? Is the data relevant? Is it being used as designed or required?

• Can I trust that the data is being used appropriately and by authorized people?

• How is the data usage trending and how are the business needs changing?

• How do I justify costs and prioritize resources with constantly changing and evolving business requests?

• What data do I eliminate? What is the impact?

With Appfluent you can:

• Measure how your business units and departments are using your data to maximize the business value of data

• Understand how data is used to retain and optimize only the most relevant data

• Track inappropriate and unauthorized data usage to ensure that access to sensitive data can be trusted

• Uncover business units and departments that are under-utilizing strategic data

• Assess data usage trends to justify costs and prioritize projects

• Identify and eliminate underutilized assets

Dormant Data Analysis for Data Archival:

Appfluent provides dormant data analysis and data classification information to help organizations implement an optimal data retention strategy using Informatica Data Archive – a complete Data Warehouse archiving solution.

With Appfluent you can identify and assess:

• Tables and columns not used or dormant

• Tables and columns infrequently used

• Infrequently used or unused applications

• The ranges of data values that are queried by users

Data Governance and Metadata Management:

Appfluent integrated with Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition (AE) provides a complete solution for data lineage, business activity analysis and data usage intelligence – to meet compliance audits and data governance requirements.

With Appfluent and PowerCenter AE, you can:

• Map operational metadata (i.e. data usage information) with data lineage

• Easily find who, what and when data, reports and apps are used

• Automatically track user-activity related to sensitive data

• Get notified when activity and usage exceed specified thresholds

• Deliver data usage audit reports in a matter of minutes for data governance and compliance requirements

ETL Management and Optimization:

Appfluent has the only solution in the market that provides a single console to get visibility into usage and performance of BI Applications, Data Warehouse and ETL through Informatica PowerCenter.

With Appfluent and Informatica PowerCenter, you are able to:

• Analyze the business impact of PowerCenter Workflows/Sessions

• Correlate impact of Data Warehouse workloads on ETL and vice versa

• Set thresholds and get notified before business critical data loads breach unacceptable service levels