12.13.17
Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data management solutions, today unveiled the latest version of its Omni-Gen™ Data Quality Edition. The unified platform combines powerful data integration and cleansing technologies to ensure data accessibility, consistency, accuracy, and timeliness, and includes a monetization feature that enables companies to assess the impact and potential ROI of data quality initiatives.
The growing volume and variety of enterprise data sources provides companies with new avenues for realizing the full power of their information. In this environment, ensuring the quality and integrity of data is critical, which is where Omni-Gen Data Quality Edition comes in. Drawing on Information Builders’ rich heritage of data management, the solution helps business users govern their data via a unified platform that profiles, cleanses, and enriches information to ensure data accessibility, consistency, accuracy, and timeliness. Organizations can use the technology to improve data processing in transactional and analytical applications, enhance system migration or software integration projects, improve customer identification processes, and validate inputs in online applications.
Omni-Gen Data Quality Edition enables increased collaboration between the business and IT and allows organizations to obtain a holistic understanding of the impact of their data governance and data quality initiatives over time. The following platform enhancements help to achieve these main objectives, while further reducing implementation time and cost:
• Omni Data Quality Workbench – Allows for collaboration between technical and non-technical users on data quality and governance projects using a business-user oriented, browser-based cleansing tool
• Omni Data Quality Monitor – Provides a browser-based dashboard with key data quality indicators to track data quality trends, and a monetization feature that assesses bottom-line impact and potential ROI for data quality initiatives
• Omni Designer – Guides business users and developers through a collaborative process to define integration, data quality, de-duplication, remediation, and unification plans, and helps to significantly reduce implementation times
Gerald Cohen, president and CEO, Information Builders, said:
“Data integrity is more important than ever in the connected world. With the latest enhancements to our Omni-Gen Data Quality Edition, we’re making it easier for companies to ensure the consistency, accuracy, and timeliness of their information, while simultaneously giving them the ability to measure the impact of these initiatives. As more organizations look for ways to maximize the value of their information, the technology provides an ideal framework for the business and IT to collaborate and drive this mission forward.”