(Informatica Corporation issued the following news release on February 14.)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Informatica Corporation, a leading provider of data integration software,today announced that Union Pacific Railroad, the nation’s largest railroad and principal operating subsidiary of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), has selected Informatica PowerCenter and PowerExchange as its standard for data integration enterprise-wide, starting with underpinning its active data warehouse program for real-time business analytics.
“The Informatica platform will help us equip employees with more timely and accurate information in order to drive more effective decisions, including real-time decisions pertaining to our day-to-day core transportation operations,” said Mike Chekal, senior manager, data management and access strategy of Union Pacific Railroad. “After an in-depth competitive evaluation, we selected Informatica for the unique completeness of its platform, including real-time data sourcing, mainframe data access, robust metadata management, and integrated data profiling and cleansing. In addition, Informatica’s scalable, high-available and team-based development capabilities are essential for 24×7 operational decision-making.”
“Effective operational decisions are the lifeblood of transportation companies such as Union Pacific, and are dependent on an ensured flow of timely, comprehensive, consistent and accurate data,” said Karen Steele, vice president of corporate marketing at Informatica. “We’re pleased that Union Pacific, with its complex and widely dispersed logistics environment, will use Informatica for real-time integration of operational and other data so that its users can more effectively respond to day-to-day operational issues and manage ongoing business performance.”
Informatica PowerCenter helps accelerate enterprise data integration initiatives, enabling enterprises to reduce IT costs and complexity, modernize systems and ensure a single, consistent enterprise-wide view of information for more effective decision-making. PowerCenter is also designed to access, transform and integrate data from a large variety of enterprise systems to support the broadest range of data integration projects including: data warehousing, data migration, data consolidation, data synchronization and master data management. This allows IT management to be more responsive to business demands for information despite dramatically increasing data volumes; IT developers to benefit from reduced time to results; and users to gain a holistic and consistent view of their enterprise information.
Informatica PowerExchange leverages Change Data Capture (CDC) to provide on-demand access to data in critical enterprise data systems, including mainframe, midrange and file-based systems. PowerExchange helps organizations leverage mission-critical operational data by making it available to people and processes without requiring manual coding of data extraction programs.
Union Pacific Corporation is one of America’s leading transportation companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, is the largest railroad in North America, covering 23 states across two-thirds of the United States. The railroad has one of the most diversified commodity mixes in the industry, including chemicals, coal, food and food products, forest products, grain and grain products, intermodal, metals and minerals, and automobiles and parts.