Customer Success Story

Modernizing 600+ Informatica Data Quality Rules: IDQ to Cloud Data Quality for a Canadian Financial Services Provider

PDI helped a Canadian financial services organization transition 600+ legacy Informatica Data Quality rules to Informatica Cloud Data Quality while preserving rule intent, validating equivalency, and establishing a repeatable approach for additional modernization.

600+

Data quality rules migrated

IDQ → CDQ

Cloud modernization

Validated

Rule equivalency

Repeatable

Modernization approach

About the Customer

The customer is a Canadian financial services provider offering life insurance, health insurance, and investment solutions to individuals, families, and businesses.

Its data quality estate included legacy Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) assets that needed to move to a cloud-native Informatica Cloud Data Quality (CDQ) operating model.

Customer Challenges

The modernization could not simply recreate technical objects in a new platform. The organization needed to preserve the intent of existing data quality rules and maintain confidence in validation outcomes while moving from Informatica IDQ to Cloud Data Quality.

The target environment also needed to provide a clearer path to operating, scaling, and governing data quality in the cloud.

PDI Solution

PDI CloudModernize for Data Quality established a structured IDQ-to-CDQ modernization process covering assessment, conversion, validation, and deployment readiness.

  • Migration assessment. Confirm the existing data quality inventory and establish the conversion scope.
  • Rule conversion. Convert the legacy Informatica IDQ rule estate into Cloud Data Quality.
  • Validation. Use comparison runs and structured discrepancy resolution to validate rule equivalency.
  • Deployment readiness. Prepare converted assets for deployment and complete stakeholder walkthroughs and final review.

Scope of Services

PDI provided the following services:

  • Data quality migration assessment, inventory confirmation, and scoping.
  • IDQ-to-CDQ conversion for 600+ data quality rules.
  • Validation planning and execution support, including comparison runs and discrepancy resolution.
  • Deployment-readiness support and stakeholder walkthrough / final review.

Results

600+ legacy data quality rules migrated. The engagement successfully transitioned the defined IDQ rule estate into Informatica Cloud Data Quality using a repeatable modernization approach.

Greater confidence in rule equivalency. Structured validation and reconciliation improved confidence that converted rules retained their intended behavior.

A cloud-ready data quality foundation. The organization established a clearer path for scaling additional data quality modernization.

A repeatable modernization pattern. Assessment, conversion, validation, and deployment readiness can be reused for future IDQ modernization scope.

About Pacific Data Integrators

Pacific Data Integrators helps enterprises modernize Informatica data management environments across data quality, integration, governance, and MDM. PDI combines migration experience with repeatable modernization practices designed to preserve rule intent and improve confidence during cloud transition.

Planning an IDQ to Cloud Data Quality modernization?

Start with the rule estate, conversion scope, and validation requirements. PDI can help define the modernization path before broader migration.

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