Comprehensive Data Integration Solutions for the Cloud
Informatica pioneered cloud computing for data integration. Informatica cloud data integration solutions are designed to extend the major advantages of cloud computing to data integration:
- Pay as you go and pay for only what you use—pricing is flexible and affordable.
- Get up and running quickly to deliver value to the business faster.
- Eliminate costs associated with buying and maintaining hardware and software.
Whether you want to move data into or out of the cloud or manage data within the cloud or from one cloud application to another, Informatica provides a complete range of solutions to give you the greatest flexibility for accessing, integrating, and trusting cloud data.
Software as a Service (SaaS) Solutions
Informatica Cloud Services allow non-technical users to address specific data integration challenges over the Web. These easy-to-use, self-service solutions are built on a multitenant framework and powered by the Informatica Platform.
Informatica Cloud Services:
- Informatica Cloud Data Loader Service imports data from on-premise applications or systems into Salesforce. In 2008, salesforce.com recognized it as the AppExchange integration application of the year.
- Informatica Cloud Data Replication Service exports or replicates cloud-based data from Salesforce CRM, force.com and other SaaS applications for reporting, compliance, back-up, and archival purposes.
- Informatica Cloud Data Synchronization Service synchronizes cloud-to-cloud and cloud to on-premise for point-to-point application integration.
- Informatica Data Profiling Service monitors and evaluates the quality of your Salesforce CRM through graphical dashboards.
- Informatica Address Quality Cloud Services enable rapid point of entry address validation details through on-demand services.
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
The Informatica Cloud Platform exposes the power of the Informatica Platform to the cloud. IT developers can build and run custom source-to-target mappings or advanced functions and share their work in the cloud as custom data integration and data quality services. The Informatica Cloud Platform includes:
- A development collaboration framework allows IT and system integrators to create reusable data integration tasks, publish them as cloud services and run them within them in the Informatica Cloud.
- Administration services allow business users to schedule and automate integration tasks as well as manage users and track performance.
- Connector services include a secure agent that reaches across the firewall to deliver powerful cloud-to-on-premise data integration such as Salesforce to Oracle or Salesforce to SAP as well as cloud-to-cloud data integration.
- A multitenant repository ensures all upgrades are delivered seamlessly and customers benefit from frequent releases.
- A sandbox environment enables IT developers to test and develop integration tasks before running them in production.
Infrastructure as a Service Solutions
Informatica provides the industry’s first comprehensive, unified, and economical data integration solutions for cloud IaaS environments.
- Informatica PowerCenter Cloud Edition is the world’s first cloud data integration solution that combines the power and scalability of Informatica PowerCenter with the flexibility, ease of use, and affordability of the latest cloud computing platform.
- Informatica Data Quality Cloud Edition delivers a broad range of data quality services includes profiling, cleansing, matching and monitoring to ensure all stakeholders can trust their data in the cloud for all of their business purposes.
- Informatica Data Archive Cloud Store Option offers a high performance, scalable, and secure cloud-based storage alternative to IT organizations for preserving and accessing archived data, at a significantly lower cost.
On-Premise Solutions
Informatica offers on-premise solutions that allow you to extend your existing data integration capabilities, so you can access and integrate data residing in the cloud: