Informatica Unveils AI-Powered Product Innovations and Strengthens Industry Partnerships at Informatica World 2019
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 20th annual Informatica World(®) global user conference held in Las Vegas from May 20-23, 2019, Informatica(®) announced multiple updates to its product portfolio and go-to-market strategy, including expanded partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Tableau, and more. These developments reinforce Informatica's ability to help the world's leading organizations deploy AI-powered, enterprise-scale data management solutions to optimize value from data -- regardless of where data resides.
AI Needs Data - and Data Needs AI
The skyrocketing volume and variety of data, coupled with a surge in the number of people accessing and using data as a strategic business asset, are driving global demand for AI-driven enterprise data management solutions that scale far beyond what humans are capable of handling.
It's common knowledge that AI needs data; however, Informatica asserts that data needs AI too. This is the best way to provide organizations with the accurate, complete, and trusted data that AI needs to produce reliable insights and recommendations.
Informatica is addressing the growing need for AI-driven data management with enhanced solutions that automate data discovery, improve data migration to the cloud, and ensure data quality, security, and governance across all data sources, whether on-premises, in the cloud, or in multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
News Summary
At Informatica World 2019, Informatica showed how it has enabled AI and machine learning across its entire product architecture via its CLAIRE(TM) engine, which provides unified, end-to-end metadata intelligence to accelerate and automate core data management and governance processes across the Informatica Intelligent Data Platform(TM).
Additionally, Informatica announced:
-- An expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud that provides
broader and deeper connectivity across the Informatica Intelligent Data
Platform, enabling enterprises to accelerate data-driven digital
transformation initiatives on the Google Cloud Platform.
-- A free joint data discovery and cloud migration assessment in
collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help organizations
assess the data they need to migrate to Amazon Redshift, thereby
accelerating cloud modernization. Cognizant is available to provide a
complete, advanced migration assessment package to help organizations
systematically catalog and understand all of their enterprise data
assets in order to develop a comprehensive, long-term migration plan.
-- Support for the Microsoft Common Data Model (CDM) for self-service
analytics at enterprise scale on Microsoft Azure. This enables
organizations to bridge data silos across applications, modernize
analytics at scale, and accelerate the transformation of raw data into
trusted business intelligence.
-- New Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) integrations with Microsoft, Tableau,
and Databricks to create a "catalog of catalogs" with AI-driven data
discovery across multi-cloud and hybrid environments, providing broad
metadata connectivity and better understanding of data across the
enterprise for analytics modernization.
-- The AI-powered, cloud-native, microservices-based Informatica MDM
Reference 360 solution, which leverages Informatica's CLAIRE engine to
automate and simplify reference data management and speed the delivery
of actionable insights to improve customer experience programs,
marketing and sales operations, omnichannel retailing, supply chain
optimization, and governance and compliance efforts.
-- The industry's most comprehensive hybrid integration platform (HIP) with
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services? (IICS), the first enterprise
integration platform as a service (EiPaaS) that fulfills all critical
requirements for successful data management across multi-cloud and
hybrid environments.
-- Informatica's end-to-end intelligent Data Governance and Privacy
Solutions enable organizations to accelerate the shift from focusing on
risk management to establishing digital trust and achieving business
value from data governance and privacy initiatives.
-- An elite group of industry innovators were honored via three award
programs that recognized their achievements in leveraging the
transformative power of data.
-- BP was named the Intelligent Disruptor of the Year for its holistic
approach to digital transformation and data management, which
includes a new enterprise approach to self-service analytics that
provides the entire global business (74,000 employees operating
across 78 countries) with capabilities to leverage data as an asset.
BP has created a revolutionary marketplace and framework for big
data environments that is a one-stop, user-friendly portal allowing
the rapid discovery of datasets, reports, and analyses across
multiple data lakes, cloud platforms, and locations. Informatica's
Big Data Management(®) (BDM) solution was implemented to allow
businesses across BP to ingest data into the data lake from a large
number of source systems and technologies. BP believes that digital
technology is at the core of revolutionizing the way it does
business, to tackle the world's need for more energy, delivered in
more innovative ways for a low-carbon future.
-- Selected by conference attendees as their favorite innovation,
GigaSpaces won Informatica's inaugural AI and Cloud Innovation Zone
competition. GigaSpaces showcased a digital integration hub using
next-generation big data architecture allowing ingestion of any data
type, combined with metadata management, and powered by the
GigaSpaces platform for real-time analytics and speed. (video)
-- Capgemini won the Informatica EDC CLAIRE Hackathon with their Smart
Data Onboarding solution, a recommender system that identifies data
for onboarding new sources into master data management (MDM) models
using Informatica EDC's rich metadata context and relationships, to
accelerate the design and implementation of MDM projects.
All of these announcements strengthen Informatica's ability to help organizations achieve their data management objectives in four critical business areas:
1. Delivering next-generation analytics to accelerate time to insights by
empowering data scientists with business self-service, intelligent
cataloging, and streaming analytics.
2. Moving to the cloud to integrate, manage, and secure all data across
hybrid, multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
3. Driving 360 engagement to transform customer experience, omnichannel
commerce, and supplier visibility with trusted data and contextual
insights.
4. Fueling data governance and privacy to stay compliant with global
regulations, fuel customer initiatives with quality data, and protect
customer data.
Supporting Quotes
-- "The growing importance of data as a strategic asset is undeniable as
organizations in every industry seek to leverage data for competitive
advantage. Enormous demand for data-driven insights is pushing
organizations to re-evaluate how they manage and create access to their
enterprise data." - Stewart Bond, Research Director, Data Integration
and Data Integrity Software, IDC
-- "Why has Informatica embedded AI in everything we do? Because AI needs
data, and data needs AI. This reciprocity is critical for producing the
complete, accurate, and trusted data that digital transformation
requires to be effective at enterprise scale. That's where Informatica's
AI-powered Intelligent Data Platform excels. With our latest
developments, Informatica is making tremendous strides in democratizing
data, enhancing data literacy, and elevating data as a strategic
business asset. We are helping many of the world's leading organizations
use their knowledge of the past to resolve the uncertainty of the
future." - Amit Walia, President, Products and Marketing, Informatica
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Additional Resources:
-- Fast facts about Informatica World 2019: 2,600 attendees, 1,200
customers, 460 partners, 44 countries represented, 1200+ sessions;
https://www.informaticaworld.com/.
-- View Informatica World 2019 general sessions and keynotes:
https://www.informaticaworld.com/lp/live.html.
-- Watch live video interviews with Informatica executives, customers, and
partners on theCUBE: https://www.thecube.net/informatica-world-2019.
-- Read an industry analyst's perspective: Informatica Positions AI as the
Tool To Tackle the New Data Landscape by Tom Pringle, Ovum, May 20,
2019.
About Informatica
Informatica is the only proven Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that accelerates data-driven digital transformation. Informatica enables companies to fuel innovation, become more agile, and realize new growth opportunities, resulting in intelligent market disruptions. Over the last 25 years, Informatica has helped more than 9,000 customers unleash the power of data. For more information, call +1 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-3871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com. Connect with Informatica on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
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