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Informatica adds cloud capability to data management


By Robert Mullins
June 5, 2008 — 
Informatica, which specializes in helping businesses manage, secure and extract value from their data, has responded to the growth of cloud computing by extending its capabilities to data that customers store in external, on-demand computing services.

The company introduced Informatica 8.6 Tuesday at its user conference in Las Vegas.

Among the new features is Data Loader, which enables a company to integrate its off-premise data managed by Salesforce.com with its on-premise data, said Chris Boorman, chief marketing officer for Informatica.

“When you look at on-demand computing, or any computing where you have moved the data off your premises—beyond the firewalls—you have to be able to control it, you have to be able to integrate it,” Boorman said.

Presently, Boorman explained, integration of on-premise and off-premise data requires additional coding, but Data Loader provides a Web-based point-and-click capability that requires no coding to move data back and forth between an on-premise database and the Salesforce cloud.

Although Informatica began as a data management company specializing in on-premise data, it is adapting to the cloud computing trend, said Boorman.

“Cloud computing is an enormous opportunity for us because we [already] see organizations adopting this. At the end of the day, it’s just about more data distributed somewhere else,” he continued. “Organizations [need to] gain control of their data.”

For now, Data Loader only integrates with Salesforce, although Informatica may later support other cloud computing services, said Ash Kulkarni, senior director of product marketing for Informatica.

Informatica 8.6 also upgrades Power Center Real Time Edition, its platform for updating data more quickly as it changes, such as in the processing of financial transactions. Some Power Center features that were optional in previous versions are included as standard in the 8.6 release.

Informatica also adds B2B Data Exchange, which integrates and manages unstructured data such as spreadsheets and text documents, as well as semi-structured data in industry-standard formats such as those governed by SWIFT and NACHA for financial services, ACORD for insurance, and HIPAA and Health Level 7 for health care.

Informatica 8.6 also includes the Data Quality checking tool previously a standalone product. Data Quality determines the integrity of data to make sure it is accurate, up-to-date and conforms to business rules or industry standards.

Finally, the 8.6 release incorporates technology from the acquisition of Identity Solutions, which was completed May 15, that resolves data identity issues across very large data volumes.


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