IDMC July 2024 Release: Elevating Cloud Data Management

On a mission to empower data leaders — including CIOs, CDOs, data architects, engineers and others — Informatica has enhanced its Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) with the July 2024 release. This new release augments the already robust features of IDMC, helping organizations create a modern data foundation better prepared for AI readiness. It further simplifies the complexities of data management to ease AI adoption, including GenAI, and enhance productivity when using data spread across complex multi-cloud environments.

At the core of IDMC is CLAIRE®, an advanced artificial intelligence engine designed to transform the way businesses manage and understand their data and put it effectively to work. Through AI-powered innovation, a scalable architecture that grows with you, and integrated services that help you navigate broad data ecosystems, let’s explore what the July IDMC release has to offer.

Easy, Efficient, Enterprise-Grade API, App Integration and GenAI App Development

Intelligently connect all your data, apps and people. Automate end-to-end business processes and build no-code, enterprise-grade GenAI apps. New for July, over 20 prebuilt recipes help fast-track common integration use cases and GenAI app development. Highlights include:

• Enable one-click, automated integration setup with recipes – Use 20+ prebuilt process integration packages (also known as recipes) for common use cases such as case management.
• Accelerate GenAI app development – Orchestrate any LLM and build no-code RAG frameworks, prompt engineering and AI agents with GenAI recipes.
• Simplify and accelerate access to applications – Leverage out-of-the-box, cloud-native, high-performance connectors such AMQP, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, etc.
• Enhance API and app integration – Gain massive improvements in usability, such as one-click API publishing, with Cloud Application Integration (CAI) and API Center integration.
• Utilize high-performance next-gen API gateway – Rely on a performance, container-based API gateway with autoscaling up to 100K requests per minute and built-in resiliency.

Simplicity, Productivity and Scale for Data Engineering and Integration for GenAI-ready ELT pipelines

Ingest, replicate and integrate your data with a single, AI-powered data engineering solution for managing data across a multi-cloud world. Informatica is now available in our customers’ native environment, making it extremely easy to find and use. Highlights include:

• Native experience with Snowflake, Databricks Delta Lake and Google BigQuery  – Efficiently process large volumes of data at scale with simplified ELT mappings creation with guaranteed pushdown and get built-in support for Snowflake Cortex AI functions to easily build GenAI-ready ELT pipelines.
• Streamlined data integration experience – Enable a unified, goal-driven and guided experience for ingestion and transformation.
• New connectors (Apache Iceberg) – Get extended support for open table formats to drive large-scale data engineering operations for high-performance analytics and ML projects.
• Azure Serverless – Enable users to focus on developing data pipelines without the need for managing infrastructure, leading to faster development, reduced costs and automatic scaling.
• Snowflake Native App (enterprise data integrator) – Get unprecedented performance and latency with a simple wizard-driven, no-code native experience on Snowflake UI to move high volumes of data into Snowflake.

Enterprise-Ready to Accelerate Time to Value

The July updates are designed to minimize the time required to derive value from deployment while maintaining business continuity. These updates include improved platform SLAs (service level agreements) and accountability, along with superior tools to ensure your data strategy aligns with global standards.

• Master data management dynamic fields – Simplifies the use of the wide range of characteristics found within a single data domain.
• Master Data Management 360 for Retail – Improve efficiency with an all-in-one solution designed for retailers’ multi-domain data management needs.
• Data catalog inferred data lineage – Better understand data sources by applying automated tools for accelerating responsible AI outcomes.
• IPU metering by project and folder – Provides effective processing unit cost management and governance for greater accountability mapped to value.
• Enhanced service availability – Get greater assurance of business continuity and reliable performance at scale with improved SLAs (to 99.9%).

Cloud Modernization to Get Ready for the AI Era

Informatica’s July launch includes tools necessary for enterprises to adapt and thrive in the fast-moving age of AI, including GenAI. These tools support cloud modernization to help ensure that your data is AI-ready, better optimizing algorithms to enable faster decision-making when fueled by reliable data sources. Highlights include:

• Data Governance, Catalog and Quality cloud modernization tools – Speed migration to IDMC for greater scale and performance advantages with cloud modernization tools.
• Cloud Data Integration for PowerCenter (CDI-PC) – Now deployed and available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Begin transforming your organization’s data management capabilities today! For more details on how the Intelligent Data Management Cloud can advance your specific mission, contact us for more information about the July IDMC release, and to discuss ways we can help accelerate your data strategy.

Contact Informatica to learn more about the July release!