Informatica 8.6 – The First Comprehensive, Unified, and Open Platform for Data Integration
Informatica 8.6 is the first comprehensive, unified, and open platform for data integration. This latest release delivers new product and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, including Informatica PowerCenter Real Time Edition, Informatica On Demand Data Loader Service for Salesforce CRM, Informatica B2B Data Exchange, and Informatica Data Quality with identity resolution. This comprehensive platform addresses the complete range of data integration requirements within the enterprise and beyond.
Informatica 8.6 delivers the industry’s first comprehensive platform with best-in-class technology in each of these four categories:
1. Real time, near-universal data integration within an enterprise
2. On-demand data integration to retain control over outsourced, off-premise data
3. Cross-enterprise integration to flexibly exchange data with partners
4. Data quality solutions to gain confidence in all their data
Informatica 8.6 includes the new PowerCenter Real Time Edition. With new features such as streaming change data capture, PowerCenter Real Time Edition supports the entire continuum of latency or timeliness requirements from batch to real time. Developers are much more productive with powerful orchestration facilities to further automate the data integration life cycle.
Informatica continues to deliver on its pioneering roadmap with its third software-as-a-service offering for cloud computing-based data integration: Informatica On Demand Data Loader Service for Salesforce CRM. This new, simple-to-use service enables business users to integrate their off-premise data managed by salesforce.com with all their on-premise data. With Informatica On Demand services, data integration is as easy as using a consumer Web site.
The new Informatica B2B Data Exchange product family includes two products: Informatica B2B Data Transformation and Informatica B2B Data Exchange. B2B Data Transformation delivers near-universal support for unstructured data, such as Microsoft Excel and Word, as well semi-structured industry-specific standards like SWIFT for financial services and HIPAA for healthcare. B2B Data Exchange flexibly automates data exchange between organizations with orchestration and partner management facilities.
The new release delivers proactive data quality preventing problems from occurring at the point-of-entry. The recently announced identity resolution technology uniquely enables search, match, and resolution of identification data across multiple systems and more than 60 languages. This unique capability will be available as an integral part of Informatica Data Quality 8.6.
Informatica 8.6 delivers the first unified data integration platform to mitigate risks associated with assembling technology components from a variety of vendors. Informatica products are all designed to work together. The new release significantly enhances developer productivity by providing a common user interface and reusability facilities based on a common metadata repository. The unified runtime engine and simplified administration reduces the total cost of ownership.
The Informatica platform supports the broadest array of operating systems, databases, middleware, business intelligence, and application software. As a result, the platform enables near-universal access to all data: structured and unstructured; on-premise and off-premise.