Businessweek

Informatica Corporation provides enterprise data integration and data quality software and services. The company’s Informatica Platform enables various enterprise-wide data integration initiatives through various technologies, such as enterprise data integration, data quality, master data management (MDM), B2B data exchange, application information lifecycle management (ILM), complex event processing, ultra messaging, and cloud data integration. In 2012, it introduced the latest version of its primary product, the Informatica 9.5 Platform for big data. In 2012, the company introduced the Informatica Cloud Winter 2013 release, which includes advances in cloud MDM and address validation, new end-user cloud integration features, and enterprise-class capabilities, as well as cloud integration platform enhancements and expanded availability of Cloud Connectors and Cloud Integration Templates on the Informatica Marketplace. Products Informatica PowerCenter Informatica PowerCenter integrates data from any business system, in any format, and delivers that data throughout the enterprise. The software serves as the foundation for various enterprise data integration projects. Informatica PowerCenter Standard Edition: It includes a data integration server, a global metadata infrastructure, visual tools for development and centralized administration, and productivity tools to facilitate collaboration among architects, analysts, and developers. Informatica PowerCenter Real Time Edition: It extends PowerCenter Standard Edition with additional capabilities for integrating and provisioning transactional or operational data in real time. PowerCenter Real Time Edition provides a foundation for developing data services and delivering information as a service to support business needs. Informatica PowerCenter Advanced Edition: It addresses requirements for organizations that are standardizing data integration at an enterprise level, across various projects and departments. Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition: It is enterprise data integration software that works with both emerging technologies, such as Hadoop, and traditional data management infrastructures. It enables information technology (IT) organizations to integrate and analyze new types and sources of data. With this big data edition, developers could move away from hand coding to a no-code visual development environment. Informatica PowerCenter Data Virtualization Edition: It provides an agile data integration foundation for various integration projects. It enables business and IT to deliver a view of the business. It also includes all the capabilities of PowerCenter Standard Edition and adds features that enable organizations to utilize a single environment for data integration and data federation, reuse virtual views for applications or projects without rework, and ensure self-service and business-IT collaboration with role-based tools. Additionally, various options are available to extend Informatica PowerCenter’s core data integration capabilities, including Advanced XML Data Integration, Data Integration Analyst, Data Validation, Enterprise Grid, High Availability, Metadata Exchange, Partitioning, Proactive Monitoring, Pushdown Optimization, and Unstructured Data options. Informatica PowerExchange Informatica PowerExchange is a family of data access products that enable IT organizations to access various sources of enterprise data without having to develop custom data access programs. With the ability to access mission-critical operational data and deliver such data in real-time throughout the enterprise, IT organizations could optimize limited resources and the business value of data. Informatica Data Services Informatica Data Services makes provisioning - finding, integrating, and managing - data across the enterprise. Informatica Data Services extends the existing data services capabilities of the Informatica Platform to provide data to any application, at any latency, using any protocol from a single, unified platform. Informatica Data Quality Informatica Data Quality delivers pervasive data quality to stakeholders, pro