Informatica Corporation : Informatica Identified as a Leader in Enterprise ETL
02/29/2012| 05:24pm US/Eastern
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Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number
one independent leader in
data integration software, today announced it was cited
as a Leader in published February 27, 2012.
Informatica achieved the highest score for current offering
and strategy based on the evaluation of
PowerCenter, a key component of the Informatica
Platform. According to Forrester Research, Inc.,
"Informatica offers the most comprehensive ETL solution to
support any requirement. Informatica continues to be one of
the most dominant vendors in the ETL market. It has strong
scalability, deployment options, security, transformation
techniques, collaboration, and monitoring. In addition,
Informatica's strong vision and strategy help maintain its
powerful and well-respected data integration brand.
Informatica v9 has advanced capabilities for data quality,
profiling, and lineage; a model-driven approach to
provisioning data services; performance enhancements; cloud
integration; common metadata; and role-specific tools. Today,
more than 4,500 companies worldwide use Informatica for their
information management initiatives ranging from ETL to data
virtualization, test data management, data quality, and
master data management, among others."
Enterprise ETL Market Growing; Supports New and Emerging Data
Management Initiatives
According to Forrester, "data movement is critical in any
organization to support data management initiatives, such as
data warehousing (DW), business intelligence (BI),
application migrations and upgrades, master data management
(MDM), and other initiatives that focus on data integration.
Besides moving data, ETL supports complex transformations
like cleansing, reformatting, aggregating, and converting
very large volumes of data from many sources."
Forrester also notes that, "the enterprise ETL market
continues to grow at a healthy pace as more enterprises
replace manual scripts with packaged ETL solutions. This
migration away from black-box custom code and toward ETL
tools is driven by the need to support growing and
increasingly complex data management requirements, provide
greater developer agility through object reuse, and increase
the transparency into and auditability of the code to improve
troubleshooting and reduce compliance risk."
The report also noted the move to support new and emerging
technologies and initiatives, such as Hadoop, NoSQL, the
cloud, social media and data services.
Informatica notes that the world is undergoing a major shift
as the "where", the "what" and the "why" of computing
changes. This is having a profound effect on all aspects
of computing with a shift from on-premise to the cloud (the
"where"), from transaction data to interaction data
(the "what") and from desktop to mobile (the
"how"). Each of these shifts is contributing to a
"big data" challenge-the need to manage vast amounts of data
cost effectively while increasing its value through better
decision making. Informatica solutions are uniquely
designed to ensure that as the volumes grow organizations are
well positioned to turn it into useable strategic assets no
matter the volumes, complexity, diversity or velocity.
Forrester evaluated each vendor's Current Offering
against 26 criteria that focus on core and advanced
functionality including runtime capability, integration
options, tool environments, support and training, additional
data integration techniques, and information management. In
addition, Forrester also scored each vendor's
Strategy by assessing 20 criteria including product
strategy, corporate strategy, go-to-market pricing strategy,
and partnerships to expand market reach, with a significant
focus on how well each vendor is addressing its current
customers' needs. Informatica received the highest scores
across both axes.
"In today's environment of rapid business and technology
change, it is even more critical to have a common data
integration platform that delivers mission critical
performance, provides greater business agility, and maximizes
return on data," said Sachin Chawla, senior vice president
and general manager, Data Integration, Informatica. "We are
proud to have been recognized by Forrester as a leader in ETL
which we believe speaks not only to the current success of
thousands of customers worldwide, but our thought leadership
in enabling companies to leverage new opportunities including
social, mobile, cloud and big data today."
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The complete report, including the Wave graphic, is available
on the Informatica web site at
www.informatica.com/enterpriseetl_wave.
Note: Informatica and Informatica Platform are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the
United States and in jurisdictions throughout the world. All
other company and product names may be trade names or
trademarks of their respective owners.
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