Informatica is recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions. This report helps data and analytics executives in identifying suitable metadata management solutions.

In the 2025 report, Informatica is recognized for vision and execution in the metadata management space.

The CDO Insights 2025 survey reveals that 43% of technology leaders indicated data (completeness, quality, readiness) as the top obstacle preventing their organization from moving more generative AI (GenAI) initiatives from pilot to production.

As AI adoption accelerates, effective metadata management becomes essential. Metadata provides critical context, such as origin, classification, sensitivity, transformations, access and updates. This helps ensure data and AI models are trustworthy and explainable.

AI initiatives often span multiple teams and complex ecosystems, expanding use cases. Standardized, unified metadata visibility is crucial to enable effective collaboration. Without a metadata fabric, organizations face challenges in breaking down data silos and enforcing governance over data and AI operations.

Furthermore, growing regulatory scrutiny on data and AI increases pressure to ensure accurate, accessible metadata for compliance with privacy policies.

For CDOs and CIOs delivering AI insights, metadata management is the foundation for ensuring AI initiatives are trustworthy, scalable and compliant.

Informatica’s philosophy focuses on a unified metadata store as part of the data architecture. This single system provides a near-real-time view of data and AI, allowing diverse users to work efficiently. It offers companies flexibility and agility to rapidly deploy data and AI projects without creating silos.

Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC), part of Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™, provides a multi-tenant metadata system supporting various services. Gartner recognizes Informatica for its metadata management solution as a Leader in "Ability to Execute" and "Completeness of Vision.”

Informatica aims to bring data and AI to life for clients by investing in unique capabilities. Key factors for Informatica's excellence in metadata management include:

• With over 50,000 metadata connectors, Informatica seamlessly links to diverse data ecosystems and multi-cloud environments, providing clients with a comprehensive view of their data estate.
• Integrated, persona-focused views and interfaces streamline metadata management and adoption. The unified experience across cataloging, governance, quality and access controls helps organizations collaborate across data and AI operations.
• Informatica’s AI and augmented capabilities for metadata management, including CLAIRE® Co-pilot, CLAIRE GPT, and Agents, provide predictive and generative AI to streamline data management.
  

We believe these above features are what were key considerations in Gartner naming Informatica a market Leader for metadata management.

Looking ahead, Informatica is dedicated to delivering innovative metadata management that provides added value for clients. As enterprise adoption of GenAI and Agentic AI grows, enhancing metadata intelligence to govern AI assets remains a priority. We are also expanding capabilities to extract and enrich metadata from unstructured sources, improving its understandability, discoverability and usability for AI systems.

Informatica is focusing on extending metadata to support agentic AI data management. A shared metadata fabric across decentralized AI ecosystems will enable multi-agent collaboration and simplify data management for AI with AI.

Informatica’s vision, innovation and execution are driven by customer success — our north star. Our customers find value in our solutions, inspiring our commitment to excellence. We thank our valued customers for their support and trust.

We see this latest Gartner Magic Quadrant recognition (fifth recognition from Gartner since September 2024¹) as a clear indicator of market preference for Informatica’s solutions. For companies aiming to accelerate their data and AI strategies through innovations in data integration, iPaaS, data and analytics governance, augmented data quality, and metadata management, Informatica delivers proven, scalable solutions that drive results.
 

_{¹Gartner Magic Quadrant for Metadata Management Solutions, Melody Chien, Thornton Craig, Guido De Simoni, Roxane Edjlali, 19 November 2025
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Augmented Data Quality Solutions, Melody Chien, Divya Radhakrishnan, Sue Waite, 10 March 2025
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, Guido De Simoni, Anurag Raj, Melody Chien, Stephen Kennedy, 7 January 2025
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Thornton Craig, Sharat Menon, Robert Thanaraj, Michele Launi, Nina Showell, 3 December 2024
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, Keith Guttridge, Allan Wilkins, 19 May 2025}

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