Information Analyzer

Timothy Valihora, the president of TVMG Consulting, Inc., has over 17 years’ experience working with a wide range of server tools and operational platforms. His areas of expertise encompass a plethora of data warehousing and data conversion technologies. As an IBM information server expert, Timothy Valihora has done extensive work with the IBM data profiling tool Information Analyzer.

Otherwise known as the WebSphere Information Analyzer or the InfoSphere Information Analyzer, IBM’s Information Analyzer is widely used for data quality assessment and data quality monitoring. It also has a number of data rule design and analysis capabilities. The product specializes in helping users derive more meaning from their complied data through a better understanding of data structure and relationships.

The four main profiling functions of Information Analyzer are column analysis, primary key analysis, foreign key analysis, and cross-domain analysis. These advanced analysis and monitoring modalities are designed to help organizations classify and assess all manner of digital information.

Teradata

An IT professional and management consultant with a career that spans 17 years, Timothy Valihora currently serves as the president of TVMG Consulting, Inc. He specializes in all facets of computer data warehousing and data conversions. In addition to his familiarity with a wide range of IBM data management applications, Timothy Valihora is an established Teradata expert.

A fully scalable relational database system, Teradata is commonly used to manage a number of major data warehousing operations. It is able to execute complex queries with less than 256 joins. Combining symmetric multiprocessing technology with communication networking, the system can facilitate interconnectivity to create large parallel processing networks.

The Teradata database management system is a product of the Teradata Corporation, a Miamisburg, Ohio, computer software company that supports dozens of analytic data platforms, applications, and related services. Components of the Teradata database management system range from Basic Teradata Query and Open Teradata Backup to MultiLoad, FastExport, ODBC, and Tpump.