News Press Releases Informatica Expands Global Cloud Offering Naming Sqware Peg As First Cloud Integration Partner in Asia Pacific Region
SYDNEY, Australia 24th May, 2010 - Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one independent provider of enterprise data integration software, today announced that it has partnered with Sqware Peg, a leading Cloud Computing consulting and solutions provider in the Asia-Pacific region, to resell Informatica Cloud in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Sqware Peg, headquartered in Sydney, Australia will build out an extensive cloud integration consulting services practice dedicated to Informatica and enhance its current offerings to a range of vertical markets, including automotive, education, telecommunications, and high tech.
Informatica already has a strong customer base of companies in Australia and New Zealand including The Australia Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research, The Cancer Council New South Wales and The Office of State Revenue New South Wales using its enterprise data integration technologies, and is rapidly adding new Cloud Integration customers such as: Attaché Software, EYE Corporation, The Royal Agriculture Society and RentSmart. The Informatica and Sqware Peg partnership will accelerate traction of the Informatica Cloud across even more local business and IT customers – allowing them to gain more value from their data, whether it resides in the cloud or on premises. With Informatica's powerful, yet easy to use online integration services, customers will be able to rapidly access, integrate, and trust their data.
"Informatica Cloud Services delivers exceptional enterprise-class SaaS integration applications," said Sam McDonagh, executive general manager, RentSmart. "We've been able to get our sales team to deliver a better experience to our customer base now that they have a single view of the customer. Ease of use was a major criterion for us as we evaluated options on the market and we decided against an appliance-approach because we experienced the ease of use for non-developers with the Informatica solution. Informatica Cloud Services is the standard that all other Cloud Services should be measured on."
Shawn Stilwell, managing director, Sqware Peg, said, "Our new relationship with Informatica is a great move forward for Sqware Peg in the Asia Pacific region and for our hundreds of customers. Consuming enterprise-class integration tools on an on-demand, subscription basis has only recently become available and this means the addressable market is now much wider. This geography is ready for a high quality, subscription-based cloud integration player like Informatica with its unique approach, and Sqware Peg looks forward to this compelling and exciting partnership."
Informatica Cloud Services are multi-tenant, secure, low-cost, easy to use and require minimal IT resources to implement and manage. Designed to integrate Salesforce CRM data and other software as a service (SaaS) applications as well as on-premise enterprise applications, databases and files, Informatica Cloud Services deliver self-service data integration to the line of business while ensuring that IT remains in control.
More than 650 salesforce.com customers run Informatica Cloud Services globally for bi-directional integration with other applications, platforms, databases and files – whether they reside in the cloud or on-premise. Informatica Cloud Services customers currently run over 30,000 integration jobs per day, moving and manipulating more than 6 billion rows of data per month.
"We were looking for a leading cloud systems integrator in Australia to take our business forward and realised that Sqware Peg uniquely understands the importance of integration to cloud computing success," said Ron Papas, general manager, Informatica Cloud. "As data becomes more and more fragmented, Informatica Cloud Services empowers customers to access and integrate their cloud data easily and cost-effectively. Working with Sqware Peg means customers will benefit from their successful track record, regional momentum and reputation for customer success."
Sqware Peg and Informatica are both Platinum sponsors of the salesforce.com Cloudforce2 Australia event and will be presenting at the Melbourne and Sydney events on the 27th May and 3rd June respectively.
About Sqware Peg
Sqware Peg, a leading Cloud Computing consulting and solutions provider in Asia Pacific, helps enterprises and small to medium sized organisations to improve business processes and succeed with customised implementations. Sqware Peg provides a range of services from early stage evaluation through to design, configuration, development, delivery, deployment and integration of solutions. These are built exclusively on today's leading platforms: salesforce.com, Eloqua, SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand, Informatica, Google and others. For more information please call +61 2 9299 9001, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or visit www.sqwarepeg.com
About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world's number one independent provider of data integration software. Organisations around the world gain a competitive advantage in today's global information economy with timely, relevant and trustworthy data for their top business imperatives. More than 4,000 enterprises worldwide rely on Informatica to access, integrate and trust their information assets held in the traditional enterprise, off premise and in the Cloud. For more information, call +612 8907 4400 or visit www.informatica.com.
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