This blog post was originally posted on the Informatica website on October 16th, 2014 here:
http://blogs.informatica.com/perspectives/2014/10/16/informaticas-hadoop-connectivity-reaches-for-the-clouds/#fbid=GN4ScbY72Yd

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Informatica’s Hadoop Connectivity Reaches for the Clouds

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Scott Hedrick

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The Informatica Cloud team has been busy updating connectivity to Hadoop using the Cloud Connector SDK.  Updated connectors are available now for Cloudera and Hortonworks and new connectivity has been added for MapR, Pivotal HD and Amazon EMR (Elastic Map Reduce).

Informatica Cloud’s Hadoop connectivity brings a new level of ease of use to Hadoop data loading and integration.  Informatica Cloud provides a quick way to load data from popular on premise data sources and apps such as SAP and Oracle E-Business, as well as SaaS apps, such as Salesforce.com, NetSuite, and Workday, into Hadoop clusters for pilots and POCs.  Less technical users are empowered to contribute to enterprise data lakes through the easy-to-use Informatica Cloud web user interface.

Informatica Cloud’s rich connectivity to a multitude of SaaS apps can now be leveraged with Hadoop.  Data from SaaS apps for CRM, ERP and other lines of business are becoming increasingly important to enterprises. Bringing this data into Hadoop for analytics is now easier than ever.

Users of Amazon Web Services (AWS) can leverage Informatica Cloud to load data from SaaS apps and on premise sources into EMR directly.  Combined with connectivity to Amazon Redshift, Informatica Cloud can be used to move data into EMR for processing and then onto Redshift for analytics.

Self service data loading and basic integration can be done by less technical users through Informatica Cloud’s drag and drop web-based user interface.  This enables more of the team to contribute to and collaborate on data lakes without having to learn Hadoop.

Bringing the cloud and Big Data together to put the potential of data to work – that’s the power of Informatica in action.

Free trials of the Informatica Cloud Connector for Hadoop are available here:http://www.informaticacloud.com/connectivity/hadoop-connector.html