This week at Informatica World in Las Vegas, we proudly celebrated a major milestone—the 25th anniversary of the Informatica Customer Innovation Awards. Since 2000, these awards have honored companies at the forefront of data transformation. What started as recognition for early adopters of data management has evolved into a celebration of global leaders using cloud and AI to drive real business impact.

The 2025 Innovation Award winners span industries from finance and healthcare to travel and technology. Each winner embodies our DATA values — Do Good, Act as One Team, Think Customer First and Aspire and Innovate — and showcases the powerful outcomes that are possible with trusted, AI-ready data.

• Business Acceleration & Digital Automation: Saudia transformed diverse operational data into real-time cloud-based analytics, enhancing fleet management, dynamic pricing, and guest satisfaction across its 144-aircraft fleet. Honoree: TaylorMade
• Customer Experience: With a fleet of 67 ships spanning five distinct brands and reaching all seven continents, Royal Caribbean has seamlessly unified its customer data to deliver highly personalized vacation experiences and exceptional service to millions of guests worldwide responsibly. Honorees: JetBlue and Manulife
• Risk & Compliance: Income Insurance implemented Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) tools, boosting productivity and reducing analysis time by 75%. Honoree: Novo Nordisk
• Master Data Management (MDM) Modernization: Citizens Bank, one of the oldest retail banks in the U.S., has modernized its MDM platform to offer a highly resilient, performant, real-time customer-facing capability that ensures a seamless customer experience by enabling real-time analytics and processing 10x more data. Honorees: Liberty Mutual and Union Bank of the Philippines
• PowerCenter Modernization: Westpac is driving cost savings and IT agility by migrating workloads to the cloud. Honorees: Rabobank and Banco de Costa Rica
• Data Catalog & Governance Modernization: Independent Financial leveraged automation to reduce data validation time by 40% and strengthen audit readiness. Honoree: Panduit
• AI & Analytics: Great American Company used GenAI and cloud platforms to streamline unstructured content review, saving multiple hours weekly. Honorees: Yamaha and Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute, LLC
• Data Engineering Excellence (new for 2025!): Lumen built a data lakehouse powering over 18 AI use cases and real-time data from 100+ sources. Honorees: Nutanix and Higher Colleges of Technology

This year’s top honor goes to Sanofi, a global healthcare leader operating in 100+ countries. Known for groundbreaking work in vaccines, Sanofi modernized its data infrastructure across multiple cloud providers to accelerate clinical, regulatory and AI-driven insights. Their innovatively engineered Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform delivery automation delivers uniform, centrally managed, secure, compliant and enterprise-ready platforms in a day instead of weeks — all with unmatched speed and 100% reliability.

These award winners join an elite community of data innovators who are reshaping their industries with AI and cloud. In the coming weeks, we’ll share exclusive interviews, videos and case studies that dive deeper into their journeys.

Until then, visit our customer content hub for more inspiration — and let these stories spark ideas for your own data transformation.