Following up on its position in the previous edition of the report, Informatica has been acknowledged yet again as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, 2026. Informatica is also ranked/recognized in the companion Critical Capabilities report.

For us, this recognition reaffirms our commitment to helping organizations build trusted, compliant and scalable data foundations for the AI era.

AI is transforming business models, but many organizations struggle to move generative AI (GenAI) pilots to production. The primary roadblocks? In our view, data governance gaps, inconsistent quality and privacy risks. Without a strong governance framework, AI initiatives can stall, expose organizations to compliance issues and erode stakeholder trust.

Gartner defines data and analytics governance platforms as “a set of integrated business and technology capabilities that help business leaders and users develop and manage a diverse set of governance policies and enforce those policies across business and data management systems.”

Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ supports data and analytics governance with integrated capabilities including data cataloging and governance, access and privacy, data marketplace, data quality and observability, data integration and engineering and API and app integration.

We believe Informatica’s position as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant reflects our ability to help data leaders simplify complexity, reduce risk and accelerate time-to-value for AI and analytics investments.

Informatica’s approach to data and analytics governance embodies a vision of simplifying data and analytics governance complexity through AI-powered automation, integrated workflows and real-time observability — helping organizations bring their data and AI to life by making it trusted, compliant, ethical and scalable.

Our strategy is built around enabling organizations to:

• Ensure AI is trusted and compliant by integrating governance for both data and AI assets.
• Manage all data types at scale, including structured, semi-structured and unstructured sources, for holistic governance across the enterprise.
• Automate governance workflows to reduce manual effort, speed onboarding of new data sources and empower both technical and business users.

These innovations help data leaders deliver reliable and scalable AI outcomes, while reducing operational overhead and compliance risk.

Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) brings together capabilities that matter most for modern governance:

• Metadata Intelligence: Our advanced metadata-driven approach provides deep visibility into data lineage, usage and relationships, critical for ensuring trust and compliance in AI models.
• Integrated Data Quality and Privacy Controls: Built-in capabilities help organizations maintain high-quality, secure data across diverse environments.
• AI-Powered Automation with CLAIRE®: Automates complex governance tasks and enables intuitive, role-aware experiences for business and technical users.

These capabilities enable organizations to transform governance from a compliance obligation into a strategic enabler for achieving success with AI and analytics.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant recognizes Informatica for its Vision and Execution within the data and analytics governance market.

Combined with other Gartner recognition for adjacent capabilities, such as metadata management, augmented data quality, data integration and iPaaS, we feel these recognitions reflect Informatica’s role in supporting the acceleration of AI readiness.

Download the full Gartner Magic Quadrant report now to learn why Informatica is recognized as a Leader.

_{¹Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, Anurag Raj, Guido De Simoni, Sarah Turkaly, 6 January 2026}

_{Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions, Melody Chien, Thornton Craig, Guido De Simoni, Roxane Edjlali, 19 November 2025}

_{Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Sharat Menon, Robert Thanaraj, Michele Launi, Nina Showell, 8 December 2025}

_{Gartner Magic Quadrant for Augmented Data Quality Solutions, Melody Chien, Divya Radhakrishnan, Sue Waite, 10 March 2025}

_{Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, Keith Guttridge, Allan Wilkins, 19 May 2025}

^{Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, Sarah Turkaly, Anurag Raj, Guido De Simoni, 7 January 2025}

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