United States Log In Home About Us Customers Customer Success Stories M.D. Anderson Cancer Center M.D. Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has one mission– to eliminate cancer. The Center provides outstanding programs thatintegrate patient care, research and prevention, and througheducation for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public. “The whole idea with big data is to begin to pull together an understanding of the genome along with the patient’s clinical care. If we understand the biochemical basis for different tumor types, we can apply the appropriate therapy to each patient.” — Dr. John Frenzel, Chief Medical Information Officer Business Need MD Anderson launched the Moon Shots Program to target six forms of cancer with large multi-disciplinary clinical and research teams. Goal is to make inroads against the disease, improve survival and quality of life for patients. The organization supports and accelerates the iterative scientific process by harnessing big data, reducing clinical trial cohort selection from weeks to minutes, and speeding time to discovery of evidence. MD Anderson is accelerating the implementation of personalized cancer medicine, by rapidly disseminating changes and improvements in clinical practice to improve patient outcomes globally. Challenges Create a single source of hugely disparate longitudinal patient data, operational data and genomic data to power insight discovery, clinical decision support and business analytics. Define a data governance process that ensures important data assets are formally managed and protected throughout the enterprise. Solutions & Results Built big data analytics platform which securely houses clinical and genomics data in one centralized location. After one year, patient samples have been collected and analyzed to determine genetic signatures of disease. Technologies Used Informatica PowerCenter Accesses, integrates, and delivers any and all data quickly and cost-effectively, without hand coding. Informatica Data Quality Transforms the way your business works by instilling trust in data at all times. Informatica MDM Provides flexible multidomain MDM technology to enable rapid deployments and extensibility across the enterprise. Informatica Professional Services Provides a full range of professional services based on Informatica’s proven implementation methodology. Success Stories WESTERN UNION Western Union built a data platform based on Hadoop and Informatica Big Data Edition CITRIX Citrix uses Informatica solutions to gain complete customer insight on all products UPMC UPMC used a collection of Informatica products to improve research outcomes in the quest to cure various diseases Read more success stories Products Big Data Cloud Integration Data Integration Data Quality Data Security Informatica Platform Integration Platform as a Service Master Data Management Solutions Application Consolidation and Migration Cloud Integration and Data Management Data Governance Next-Gen Data Analytics Total Customer Relationship Industry Solutions Marketplace Solutions Services & Training Certification Glossary of Terms Informatica University Professional Services Support Services About Us Blog Careers Company Information Customers Communities Events News Partners Potential at Work Webinars Contact Us Locations Trademarks Terms of Use Privacy Policy © 2015 Informatica All Rights Reserved