Decision support increasingly presents an enterprise-wide view of corporate information, and so must draw from incompatible sources. As decision support becomes more wide-ranging, robust enabling extract and transformation tools are required to reconcile the data drawn from mainframe, relational and enterprise resource planning data. New applications demand high-performance enabling technologies. The sheer volumes of data grow exponentially. Enabling technologies must possess industrial-strength data cleansing abilities, and they must be able to quickly transform data and deliver it to the waiting applications.
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Enabling technologies must help users adapt quickly to new analytic needs. Some user groups might wish to combine their applications to make use of the same source data. Informatica Competitive Differentiators Informatica Applications make a timely appearance as managers in the e-business market struggle to understand the key relationships and related activities that determine profitability across both traditional 'brick and mortar' and online sales channels. Informatica Applications enable managers to delve into the root cause of a change or problem in one part of their e-business value chain, and assess how that change might trigger multiple reactions in another. Procurement covers supply chain management and the acquisition, construction and delivery of products and services, and includes e-procurement, materials management, sales order management, logistics, and inventory management.