P owerMart is the latest version of Informatica's flagship software for building and managing departmental data marts and data warehouses. The integration between it and Hummingbird's business intelligence suite enables customers to better understand the data in their corporate data stores without having to understand the underlying structure of the database. Through automated generation of metadata, the MX architecture has substantially reduced IT managers' time and effort involved in creating robust user reporting environments, and answering subsequent user questions. T hanks to Hummingbird's participation in the MX2 architecture program, customers will benefit in a variety of ways. Using GQL and PaBLO to access and analyze the data in an Informatica data mart will be even faster and easier.
Users can use metadata to better understand the corporate data they're querying against.
This makes users more productive, because they can spend less time learning and more time analyzing. More intuitive data access means the IT department spends less time answering user questions, and more time on actual administration. This results in cost savings for the enterprise. We are pleased Hummingbird has stepped up to work with Informatica to meet this metadata integration challenge. Our work with Hummingbird will extend the ability of Informatica's Metadata Exchange Architecture to deliver enterprise metadata to the desktop.