(Informatica Corp.: Redwood City, CA) -- Informatica Corp., an independent provider of enterprise data integration software, has released the industry’s first book about applying lean principles to the challenges of enterprise data and process integration, entitled  Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010).

Authored by noted data integration experts and Informatica executives John G. Schmidt and David Lyle, Lean Integration describes why the integration factory will be the dominant new “wave” of middleware for the next decade. It provides detailed best practices for implementing a lean integration strategy to align functions, eliminate waste, and drive continuous improvements across vital data integration activities.

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