Informatica Secures a Top Spot in the Nucleus iPaaS Technology Value Matrix 2023

Last Published: Jun 07, 2023 |
Joel Fernandes
Joel Fernandes

Product Marketing Manager, Cloud

In today’s high-pressure digital economy, having easy, efficient, cost-effective tools can separate the leaders from the followers in a crowded market.

Enter integration platform as a service (iPaaS), a unified platform that helps manage integrations and data flows across disparate applications, handle the full lifecycle of APIs, automate business processes and optimize human workflows — all must-haves to maintain a competitive edge.

And given the global iPaaS market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 25.6% from 2023 to 2033 and reach a revenue of US$ 53.88 billion by the end of 2033,1 I am especially thrilled to share some exciting news.

Nucleus research recently named Informatica iPaaS, a service of Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), as a leader in the Nucleus iPaaS Technology Value Matrix 2023. This comprehensive evaluation conducted by Nucleus Research assesses the capabilities and performance of leading vendors in the iPaaS market. It considers factors such as functionality, usability, scalability and customer value. Figure 1 shows how vendors stack up against each other in terms of their ability to deliver value and meet customer needs.

Not only are we honored with this recognition, but it also solidifies our position as a frontrunner in the industry. Let’s review why we believe Informatica iPaaS is blazing trails.

Figure 1: Visual representation of how Informatica stacks up against the competition.

Key Factors Contributing to Informatica iPaaS Success

Informatica iPaaS enables organizations to seamlessly manage their APIs, integrations and automaton of processes via a centralized integration platform. This empowers modern enterprises to connect, curate and leverage data in real time across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Here are some other key capabilities that make Informatica a leader in the iPaaS market.

  • Caters to virtually any user: Informatica iPaaS supports a wide range of personas, including developers, line-of-business (LOB) managers, application administrators and citizen integrators. The platform prioritizes usability as a crucial factor for its successful adoption. Informatica iPaaS achieves this by offering an easy, intuitive and user-friendly interface with low-code/no-code capabilities where virtually any user within the organization can easily integrate applications, create workflows and automate complex processes, even without extensive coding knowledge. The platform provides a drag-and-drop functionality that simplifies the integration process. Additionally, pre-built connectors and visual mapping tools are available, enabling you to quickly connect systems and define data mappings.
  • Provides innovative AI: Informatica iPaaS goes beyond traditional integration capabilities by leveraging CLAIRE, our AI engine, which provides recommendations to automate and expedite integration and data management tasks. This empowers you to efficiently manage data and application assets, derive meaningful insights and make data-driven decisions — essential requirements in today's demanding landscape.
  • Supports practically any integration pattern: Informatica iPaaS is designed to support a wide range of integration patterns, providing you with the flexibility to tackle various scenarios:

    • Data integration: Informatica iPaaS enables seamless data integration across disparate systems and sources. This means you can extract, transform and load (ETL) data from various databases, applications and files, ensuring data consistency and availability across the organization.
    • API and application integration: Informatica iPaaS simplifies API and application integration by empowering organizations to connect disparate applications such as CRM, ERP, marketing automation platforms and more in real-time. It synchronizes data, orchestrates workflows and automates end-to-end business processes that span multiple applications and services. Informatica iPaaS provides a codeless API integration capability, which eliminates the need for complex hand coding. Instead, it has a drag-and-drop UI for rapid API integration.
    • API lifecycle management: Informatica API Center, a service of IDMC, streamlines the end-to-end management of APIs. It provides a comprehensive set of capabilities that cover the entire lifecycle of APIs. From their creation to retirement, organizations can efficiently handle the design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, deprecation, security, discovery, reuse and retirement of APIs. It offers a centralized platform where APIs can be created, managed and controlled with ease. This allows organizations to maintain a consistent and secure approach to API lifecycle management, ensuring smooth integration and interoperability across diverse systems and applications.
    • Business process automation: Informatica iPaaS enables the automation of complex business processes by integrating and orchestrating various tasks and activities. This empowers you to define workflows, set up triggers and automate actions, reducing manual effort and improving operational efficiency.
    • B2B integration: Informatica iPaaS supports business-to-business (B2B) integration, allowing organizations to seamlessly exchange data with trading partners, suppliers and customers. This empowers you to integrate B2B systems, manage electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions and streamline supply chain processes.
    • Pub/sub (publish/subscribe): Informatica iPaaS facilitates event-driven architectures by supporting the pub/sub integration pattern. This empowers you to publish events or messages to topics, and subscribers can receive and process these events asynchronously, enabling real-time data synchronization and event-driven workflows.
    • Streaming integration: Informatica iPaaS enables the integration of streaming data from various sources, such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, social media feeds and sensor data. Having the ability to capture, process and analyze streaming data in real time helps organizations make timely and data-driven decisions.
  • Improves scalability and performance: Informatica iPaaS is designed to handle large volumes of data, workflows and transactions while maintaining performance SLAs. This scalability ensures that organizations can easily expand their integration capabilities as needs scale up. Here are some key Informatica iPaaS scalability and performance indicators that showcase our aptitude in the market:
    • Data management: Informatica iPaaS is designed to handle vast amounts of virtually any data — structured, unstructured, locked and unlocked. It can manage over 18 petabytes of metadata, which includes information about data sources, transformations, mappings and data lineage. This metadata management capability allows organizations to gain visibility and control over their data assets at a large scale.
    • Transaction processing: Informatica processes a staggering number of transactions each month. With a monthly throughput of 53 trillion transactions, Informatica iPaaS can manage high volumes of operations. This level of transaction processing enables organizations to efficiently process and manage APIs, applications, data and integrations at scale.
  • Offers advanced security: Informatica iPaaS incorporates robust security capabilities, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and data protection policies. Informatica has also received multiple third-party attestations, memberships and industry certifications, including GDPR, FedRAMP, HIPAA, SOC, etc.

Our Commitment to iPaaS Innovation

Informatica has long been recognized as a pioneer in data, API and application integration solutions. That’s because we are laser-focused on delivering new iPaaS capabilities that help our customers take their data initiatives to the next level.

For example, some recent iPaaS innovations include Informatica Process Integration Package (iPiP), which enables collaborative integration among designers, developers and technologists across organizations. Another new feature is the human workflow and human task inbox, which facilitates the management of business processes requiring human validation or review, from simple to complex.

Informatica also offers consumption-based pricing, so you can optimize your cloud costs more easily and have the flexibility to grow and innovate as your business needs change.

Being named a leader in the Nucleus iPaaS Technology Value Matrix further validates our expertise and innovation. The bottom line — we are committed to helping our customers drive business outcomes for continued success.

Next Steps

Do you want to effectively compete in today’s digital economy? Explore the report and find out why Informatica iPaaS can help you deliver value and drive results.

 

1https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2023/02/15/2608822/0/en/Integration-Platform-as-a-Service-iPaaS-Market-will-surpass-US-53-88-billion-revenues-towards-the-end-of-2033-at-a-CAGR-of-25-6-Report-by-Persistence-Market-Research.html

First Published: Jun 07, 2023