Enterprise data integration software provider Informatica Corporation (INFA) announced mattress maker Select Comfort Corporation has selected Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition to power its move from departmental reporting to a centralized enterprise data warehouse.

By integrating data on customers, orders, costs, inventory and operations from across the organization for analysis, PowerCenter Advanced Edition will enable Select Comfort to more effectively analyze customer behavior and changing market patterns, and respond more quickly to emerging business opportunities.

"Informatica''s robust data integration capabilities will give us much-needed flexibility as they look at new channels, products and customers, and as they move to address fast-developing market opportunities," said Mike Thyken, chief information officer, Select Comfort.

"After an extensive review in which they evaluated other tools on the market, they chose Informatica''s PowerCenter Advanced Edition platform for the comprehensive set of metadata analysis and reporting capabilities they could leverage with the data warehouse and other enterprise applications. Two powerful benefits they anticipate with Informatica are a lower total cost of ownership and faster time to market."

"Like many fast-growing companies, Select Comfort has outgrown a departmentally organized information infrastructure and is moving to provide decision-makers with a view of the entire enterprisebased on access to more timely, accurate and complete data," said John Entenmann, executive vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Informatica. "We''re pleased that PowerCenter Advanced Edition has been selected to enable this new infrastructure, delivering improved maintainability, scalability and performance as well as an enterprise-wide metadata management capability that will enhance Select Comfort''s understanding of its entire IT environment."

PowerCenter Advanced Edition is the market''s most robust platform for enterprise data integration, expanding the definition of a data integration platform by incorporating metadata-analysis and data-ready reporting, cost-effective grid computing and team-based development capabilities into a single offering. With PowerCenter Advanced Edition, companies can realize the benefits of a single platform that addresses the full data integration lifecycle-helping them drive productivity and lower IT maintenance costs across a broad range of complex data integration projects.

Nation''s leading bed retailer Select Comfort Corporation is also a creator of the Sleep Number bed. The company is holding 32 US issued or pending patents for its personalized sleep products.

The company designs, produces and markets a line of adjustable-firmness mattresses featuring air-chamber technology, branded the Sleep Number bed, as well as foundations and sleep accessories. Select Comfort(R) products are sold through its more than 370 retail stores located nationwide.

Informatica Corporation (INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, migrate and consolidate enterprise data across systems, processes and people to reduce complexity, ensure consistency and empower the business. More than 2,250 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs.
 
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