Business Intelligence Lowdown: Oakwood deploys data integration BI platform

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January 12, 2006

Oakwood deploys data integration BI platform

Oakwood Worldwide, the Los Angeles-based global corporate housing and property management firm, has successfully deployed Informatica Corporation's PowerCenter data integration platform to gradually migrate from a legacy mainframe system, while implementing new real-time tools like Business Intelligence (BI) and dashboards. With the new platform in place and the PowerExchange mainframe access software, data sharing is enabled between the legacy systems and the newer applications like inventory-management and integrated corporate client systems, thus serving Oakwood's data management needs. Oakwood realized that the transition had to be done in incremental steps to minimize confusion and chaos, and so, chose a non-intrusive approach. Rather than updating the mainframe, the company added new applications and integrated them with the required data in the legacy system. Search Data Management reports:

"It's important to have Informatica in place because it provides us not only the ability to replicate our data, but also the ability to provide real-time information between systems," said Vinnie Le, Vice President of Information Systems (IS) at Oakwood. The platform enables better working relationships between internal users and corporate clients, many of which have integrated systems, Le added.