REDWOOD CITY, Calif., November 16, 2009
News Facts: Today, Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) a leading independent provider of data integration software, announced Informatica Cloud 9, a comprehensive offering for cloud data integration, featuring:
"Informatica pioneered true software-as-a service data integration more than three years ago and today takes another big step forward by delivering a complete cloud platform as a service for our customers and partners with Informatica Cloud 9," said Ron Papas, general manager, Informatica Cloud. "Informatica continues to invest in all aspects of cloud computing to deliver the industry-leading offerings to customers so they can become data-driven enterprises."
Informatica Cloud Platform The new Informatica Cloud Platform enables developers and Systems Integrator (SI) partners to build, share and reuse custom data integration and data quality mappings and run them in the cloud.
"Integration remains a top challenge and priority as organizations become more involved in cloud and SaaS implementations," said Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies, Inc. and Founder of the SaaS Showplace. "Informatica Cloud 9 delivers a robust platform to power a marketplace of re-usable data integration and data quality components."
"Fujitsu has partnered with Informatica for over six years, with a particular focus on data integration to cloud applications in some of the largest Salesforce CRM deployments," said Henry Hai, Director SaaS Practice, Fujitsu America. "Informatica Cloud 9 will dramatically simplify cloud-to-cloud and cloud to on-premise data integrations. Leveraging Informatica Cloud 9, our clients can now productively integrate their cloud data – including their Salesforce CRM data."
"Using Informatica, we've developed an SAP data integration as a service solution for salesforce.com customers," said Michael J Urban, Managing Partner, ITB Consult. "Now with the new Informatica Cloud 9 we plan to develop re-usable templates to accelerate time to market and reduce total cost of ownership for our customers. Informatica Cloud 9 gives us the power and flexibility to meet enterprise requirements and deliver solutions to non-technical business users."
Informatica Cloud Services The Winter '09 release of Informatica Cloud Services, which are purpose-built, software-as-a-service (SaaS) data integration applications designed for non-technical users, introduces significant productivity enhancements.
"We're using Informatica Cloud Services to replicate millions of rows of data from Salesforce CRM to a centralized database running on Amazon EC2," said Stephen Brown, Technical Architect, Telegraph Media Group. "As we think about moving more and more of our IT infrastructure to the cloud, the ability to develop more complex mappings and workflows and run them as custom services for line of business managers will allow us to continue to provide self-service, while IT remains in control."
"When selecting a data quality business partner for cloud computing services it is all about trust. We chose AddressDoctor (Informatica Address Quality Cloud Services) because we can trust that the service offers unparalleled accuracy, reliable uptime and the most robust postal data set available today," said Sheila Donovan, President at Global DM Solutions. "The teams of professionals behind the product have extensive knowledge and experience. We can trust that when using this service we deliver a quality product to our clients every time."
New and Expanded Informatica Offerings via Amazon Web Services The new Informatica Data Quality Cloud Edition is an innovative cloud computing data quality product running on Amazon EC2.
"Amazon RDS now makes it easy for organizations to set up, operate and scale a relational database in the cloud," said Terry Wise, Director of Partner Relations for Amazon Web Services. "We're pleased that Informatica is helping to provide data integration tools and data quality solutions for Amazon RDS."
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Additional Content For more information about Informatica Cloud 9 and all Cloud Data Integration solutions offered by Informatica, please visit www.informatica.com/cloud.
Dreamforce '09 Gold Sponsor As a Gold Sponsor of Dreamforce 2009, Informatica Cloud 9 for Data Integration will be featured in the Partner Expo at Booth 509 and in two sessions on Thursday November 19th:
About Informatica Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent leader in data integration software. The Informatica Platform provides organizations with a comprehensive, unified, open and economical approach to lower IT costs and gain competitive advantage from their information assets. More than 3,850 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise and in the internet cloud. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.
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