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"Data integration and business intelligence will help promote Thrivent Financial's key corporate value of ethical and efficient operations," said Nathan Meyer, lead of enterprise information services at Thrivent Financial. "We expect Informatica's software will help provide the total cost-of-ownership and ease-of-use we are looking for, while also providing an excellent fit with our web-generation architectures." Thrivent Financial is integrating contract, customer, financial and HR data from a range of enterprise and external systems using the Informatica PowerCenter platform, which has been the organization's core data integration platform since 2001. Thrivent Financial field agents will leverage this data via Informatica PowerAnalyzer to measure their personal performance relative to goals and peer groups. Thrivent Financial management will also use Informatica software to help oversee regulatory compliance, business ethics and the performance of the organization's investment portfolios, which total $62.4 billion in assets under management. In addition, Thrivent Financial will implement Informatica SuperGlue to help the company better understand its complex information flows and assess the impact of changes to its information architecture. "Thrivent Financial understands that building an enterprise data integration architecture is one thing, but maintaining and expanding it cost effectively over time is another challenge altogether," said Clive Harrison, executive vice president of worldwide field operations at Informatica. "By leveraging the complete Informatica platform with a unified architecture for all data integration, business intelligence and metadata management, Thrivent Financial is well-positioned to more effectively support regulatory compliance and perform the impact analyses necessary to optimally manage a blossoming set of business performance applications."