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Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Training supports 2006 elections
episode49 begins support of 2006 national election push by increasing information availability to candidate committees.
"Political campaigns gather valuable information within various applications and tools" said Kurt Schaffer, managing partner and chief architect for episode49, LLC. "The separation of the data degrades the true value to the organization and Informatica should prove to be a very important tool in keeping the value high."
The Informatica PowerCenter 8 development environment enables ongoing transformation of data from a variety of different sources. PowerCenter provides a means to extract the data from its current forms and locations, change it to a more useable format, and load it into files that can be used by analysis tools.
"Changing fundamentally how local organizations can approach their campaigns to best apply their resources is one of the benefits of this effort," said Ken Smith, chief strategist at episode49, "it is in line with our expertise and commitment to political action."
episode49 offers direct candidate web development support through PoliticalSupport.com, a joint venture with the Bivings Group. PoliticalSupport.com services enable candidates to create campaign sites. The sites serve to communicate the important information about the candidate through presentation of issues (as pages or multimedia files), the candidate biography, blog entries and news that is relevant to the candidate's issues and message. The sites help supporters with campaign materials, which can be either downloaded or requested through the web, and with campaign contacts. Campaign activities, and the people needed to make them happen, are directed effectively with the events calendar, team manager, media manager and action center.
"Learning the Informatica PowerCenter capabilities increases our ability to make data useable," said Schaffer, "It fits with our skills in Microsoft SQL and data integrity with FirstLogic, and our ability to create high performance data structures."
Informatica provides data integration tools for both batch and real-time applications. Since it's founding in 1993, Informatica has grown to serve over 2,000 customers (including more than 80 of the Fortune 100) with enterprise solution products, and has strategic partnerships with IBM Global Services, HP, Accenture, SAP and many others.
