Introduction: Informatica Data Quality tool 8.6.2

Once it is identified ... which are all the business key columns and what are all the corresponding data quality problems that needs to be addressed ... and what is the data quality solution approach ... needs to be applied to validate, standardize, cleanse and de-duplicate the data. The next job is to select the tool, which will do that job.

One such tool is ... Informatica Data Quality 8.6.2 ...

Informatica Data Quality is a suite of applications and components that deliver enterprise-strength data quality capability. It can be used in stand-alone mode or in client-server mode, and in integration with Informatica PowerCenter, to analyze and enhance the quality of the data in several following areas:

• Standardize data to agreed or formally-correct terms
• Cleanse your data of errors
• Validate your data against reference materials (like custom dictionaries, Postal databases ... )
• Parse and derive missing data values from existing data
• Identify and remove duplicate data records
• Generate Reports

I would say ... Informatica acquisition of Dublin-based data quality vendor Similarity Systems ... is a good move ... as it helped Informatica to expand it's functions in area of Data Quality domain ...