Informatica and Deloitte Consulting Announce Strategic Alliance For Enterprise Information Management
Deloitte Consulting named an Informatica Premier Consulting Partner
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
June 11, 2007—Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of data integration solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with Deloitte Consulting LLP (Deloitte Consulting), a subsidiary of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation's leading providers of professional services, whereby the two companies will collaborate to deliver offerings for enterprise information management, data quality, governance, and compliance.
"Informatica and Deloitte Consulting have forged a very strong relationship with enormous potential for delivering value to clients," said Mike Pickett, vice president, Global Alliances, Informatica. "This is an alliance built on a history of collaboration, which has resulted in multiple award-winning implementations for our mutual customers and joint customer education programs. Our strategic product roadmap has benefited from Deloitte Consulting's valuable input, and a strong base of their professionals are already trained on Informatica products. Going forward we will be able to provide many new offerings for our mutual customers."
In support of the strategic alliance, Deloitte Consulting has implemented an Informatica data integration environment at its Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania data center and established Informatica Centers of Excellence in Mumbai and Hyderabad, India for Deloitte Consulting clients and prospects. In addition, more than 350 Deloitte Consulting professionals worldwide have been trained on the Informatica data integration platform and a program has been launched to educate new Deloitte Consulting hires as they come on board.
"Through this alliance, Deloitte Consulting and Informatica will continue to provide clients with the Business Intelligence and Enterprise Data Integration experience that can help companies enhance the consistency, accuracy, and integrity of all types of data across the Enterprise," said Scott Sognefest, a principal with Deloitte Consulting and the U.S. practice leader for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing.
As part of the new strategic alliance, the two organizations are also enhancing their collaborative market education program by adding a new series of joint seminars and other educational activities.
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About Informatica Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is a leading provider of enterprise data integration software and services. With Informatica, organizations can gain greater business value by integrating all their information assets from across the enterprise. More than 2,790 companies worldwide rely on Informatica to reduce the cost and expedite the time to address data integration needs of any complexity and scale. For more information, call 650-385-5000 (1-800-653-9871 in the U.S.), or visit www.informatica.com.
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