The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Fabric, Q4 2016

“Big data represents big opportunity, and effective big data management is key for organizations embracing Data 3.0,” said Ronen Schwartz, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud, Big Data and Data Integration, Informatica. “Unlike many stand-alone tools and code generators, Informatica enables a systematic approach to big data management to deliver business value with successful data lakes. Only Informatica provides an end-to-end solution that takes advantage of advanced metadata intelligence combined with machine learning and AI to help discover, ingest, govern, master, secure and leverage vast volumes of streaming data.”

Currently supporting more than 7,000 companies, Informatica offers big data fabric with all the trimmings, including:

• A proven, mature technology
• An intuitive visual and metadata-driven development environment that can be leveraged for big data sources and prebuilt parsers, transforms, and connectors that help parse, integrate, cleanse, mask, and match data natively on Hadoop.
• An enterprise information catalog, which catalogs data assets across the enterprise using inferred understanding of the data as well as crowd-sourced input from business analysts, stewards, and architects.

Enterprises use Informatica's big data fabric solutions for real-time analytics, IoT, integrated analytics and real-time operational intelligence like fraud detection and proactive customer engagement.

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¹ The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Integration For Enterprises, Q4 2016, Noel Yuhanna, November 22, 2016