Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo Moves Critical Data With Informatica Data Integration Platform

Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo Moves Critical Data With Informatica Data Integration Platform

Global Transport Leader Leverages Informatica for Rapid, Post-Merger Data Migration With Assured Data Quality

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) , a leading provider of data integration software, today announced that Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo has leveraged the Informatica PowerCenter data integration platform to successfully migrate the customer, contract and pricing data of Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo into a new shared application environment. Completed on schedule and within budget, the large-scale migration project represents both a significant step in integrating the processes and systems of the two organizations following their 2004 merger and in enabling the combined enterprise to present a single face to customers.

As part of migrating freight division data into its new central application, Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo used Informatica Data Explorer software in conjunction with PowerCenter to gain insight into the content, quality and structure of the data prior to integrating it into the new system. Informatica Data Explorer enabled Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo to profile the data in search of quality issues, gaps, inconsistencies and incompatibilities, thus accelerating and streamlining the migration project and ensuring the availability of high-quality information. From start to finish, the entire migration project was completed within five months.

“Informatica PowerCenter and Informatica Data Explorer provide us with a solid foundation for combining our respective systems; consequently, we are now able to present ourselves to the outside world as one company in all our customer relations,” said Marco Koole, project leader at KLM Cargo. “Informatica met all our requirements for the migration project including data quality, which is essential for enabling orders to be placed, authorized and invoiced correctly. With Informatica, data quality is now an integrated and continuous component of the data integration cycle.”

Among the uses of the new common application environment is the provisioning of Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo’s “Unique Voice Portal.” This web-based system enables employees of the two organizations to see on a single screen the cargo capacity of a given flight and what price arrangements have been made with customers, so that they can be served more quickly and efficiently. The Informatica solution ensures the quality and completeness of this and other information available through the portal.

“Companies which are parties to a merger or acquisition need to combine all systems and processes quickly and accurately in order to fully realize the projected business advantages,” said Erik Jan ten Bruggencate, country manager, Informatica Netherlands. “As proven in many large-scale data migrations, Informatica data integration technology can significantly decrease the time-to-delivery of migration projects, minimize their risk, and maximize data consistency and accuracy across business processes and organizations. From built-in data profiling and cleansing to highly productive development capabilities, the Informatica data integration platform provides all the facilities required for rapid and successful data migration.”

For more than eighty-five years, KLM Cargo has been on the forefront of transporting and handling general and special cargo. Building on this experience, Air France Cargo-KLM Cargo offers a wide range of air transport services in the market, providing seamless connections throughout the world.

About Informatica

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,700 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of any complexity and scale. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-9871 in the U.S.), or visit http://www.informatica.com/.

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