BMC Software – Informatica Customer Success Story

“Over the years, we have amassed terabytes of data, which is at the core of everything we do,” says Jeff Gheen, Senior Director of Business Analytics at BMC. “And the crown jewel is our data warehouse, which helps us support our customers’ growing data demands and drives insights that will make them future-ready.”

When BMC began to outgrow its existing IBM Netezza data warehouse, the company seized the opportunity to modernize its own data platform by moving to the cloud. By switching to a Snowflake data warehouse, BMC could harness the scalability of the cloud to ingest more data and meet growing data demands.

But first, BMC needed to rethink its data integration strategy. Developers would need to rewrite code from scratch—a project that could potentially take years. As a longtime Informatica customer, BMC relied on Informatica PowerCenter for data integration and management. Migrating to Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) would allow BMC to complete its cloud journey using the Informatica solutions that it trusts.

After reaching out to Informatica for advice, Informatica invited BMC to become the first customer to participate in the Migration Factory approach. Informatica’s Migration Factory is a combination of automation tools, processes, and Informatica expertise that analyzes PowerCenter repositories to identify mappings, sessions, and workflows to deliver automated, cost efficient, and risk-free conversion of PowerCenter mappings to IDMC.

“The data warehouse is the backbone of our entire analytics ecosystem. We started asking ourselves if there was another way to get data integration into the cloud as efficiently as possible with minimal risk,” says Gheen. “Informatica offered another solution: become customer zero for the Migration Factory to make the move from PowerCenter to IDMC quickly and painlessly.”