Brocade
Brocade is a leading provider of data center networking solutions that help organizations connect, share, and manage their information in the most efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management.
Challenge
- Reduce IT spend - over 50% of budget spent on custom integration
- Address inconsistency in fragmented business data across enterprise
- Migrate > 300 worldwide staff from home-grown SFA system to Salesforce
- Synchronize internal operational, HR, and accounting data to Salesforce
- Leverage salesforce.com data for operational and financial reporting and analysis
Solution
- Standardized Enterprise Integration on Informatica PowerCenter
- Integration between both operational and analytical systems
- Drag and Drop approach vs. “code from scratch”
- Selected PowerCenter – the same platform embedded in their Oracle and i2
Benefits
- 10x improvement in productivity with over 300% increase in performance
- Only 8 weeks to complete Dev, QA and Production rollout with 2 resources
- 2 months to deliver 50 interfaces between Salesforce and the data warehouse
- Improved data confidence through enterprise data management
- Achieved consistent reference data between Oracle ERP and Salesforce
- Over 200,00 records loaded nightly from Salesforce to the data warehouse
- Load time previously measured in hours reduced to under 10 minutes
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