“Informatica has clearly emerged as the standard for data integration among the world's largest companies,” said Diaz Nesamoney, president and COO of Informatica. “Strong industry recognition from industry analysts, the awards our data integration platform continues to receive, and the awards our customers receive for their successful Informatica implementations demonstrate the powerful results that can be achieved by using the Informatica Data Integration Platform to maximize business performance.”

“[The ETL] market continues to migrate from one that moves 'dumb data' to one that provides intelligent information integration, analytic applications, software development and data management in the broad sense of managing information as an enterprise resource,” said Lou Agosta, director at Giga Information Group Inc., in the March “Market Overview Update: ETL” report.

The Informatica Data Integration Platform is the proven standard infrastructure for enterprise and departmental data integration, with connectivity to virtually all data sources and the ability to interchange and integrate data across a wide area network or the Internet. Comprised of the flagship Informatica PowerCenter software product as well as expanded connectivity solutions that extend even across firewalls, the Informatica Data Integration Platform helps companies integrate and analyze data from virtually any corporate system, including ERP, CRM, supply chain, procurement, EAI, mainframe and legacy systems. The Informatica platform provides real-time performance, scalability and extensibility to handle the analytic requirements of even the largest enterprises.