Greater agility in adding and updating connected analytics systems and applications
Hybrid orchestration of cloud and on-premise data integration in a single publish/subscribe system, including everything Informatica Cloud connects to including Salesforce.com, AWS, Azure and other cloud services
Automated persistence and indexing of data in Hadoop for data lakes leveraging Spark
Wizards and a web-based user interface for ease of use, productivity and team collaboration
Visibility, management, monitoring and alerting across all data pipelines for greater confidence
Built-in advanced transformations for unstructured data, XML, JSON, PDF, Microsoft Office formats and other specialized data formats
Scheduled or triggered delivery of the same fresh, curated data properly formatted to be consumed by all target systems
Informatica Data quality and masking available to cleanse and secure data
Leverage PowerCenter skills, connectors and mappings to speed time to production
Elegant and modern pub-sub-hub architecture to give your CTO warm fuzzies with greater efficiency to make your CFO smile
Put IoT Data to WorkToday, I am delighted to announce Informatica’s plans to support and integrate with Salesforce.com’s new IoT Cloud. Much of the IoT discussion in the market is about the things themselves. However, organizations will be impacted even more greatly by the data produced by these connected things, by the user that puts this data to work and by the way this data is put to work with other enterprise data.
Large organizations need systems to make sense of and drive business value from the massive amounts of machine data that will be generated in the coming years. Informatica Cloud’s deep integration with Salesforce.com, combined with Informatica’s Project Atlantic’s intelligent IoT data structure discovery, can bring this potentially dark data to light. This integration can combine this data with events and other enterprise data to derive insights and recommended subsequent actions, based on rules.
The rich Salesforce.com connectivity and data transformation capabilities of Informatica Cloud and on-premise software can process IoT data at any scale to be combined with existing enterprise data and systems. Data movement, processing, parsing, cleansing, mastering and masking can all be orchestrated with Informatica’s visual tools. This fit-for-purpose data can then be put to work to power event-driven operational systems, such as customer recommendations.
Project Atlantic is an innovative visual data structure discovery tool developed by Informatica to intelligently discover and map the structure of IoT and other machine data assisted by machine learning. Once the structure is mapped, it can then be parsed by Informatica’s Data Transformation for use by other systems. For example, using Project Atlantic, application users will be able to easily understand the structure of non-standard machine data and automatically prepare large volumes of IoT data to be used in the application.
Project Atlantic, combined with Informatica’s rich integration with Salesforce.com, accelerates enterprise time-to-value from IoT data.
Informatica Cloud IoT Data Discovery will be available in our upcoming release in October.
As the size, variety and amount of data being exchanged between companies continues to explode, there is an ever-increasing need for modern solutions that better enable collaboration, speed time to market and create enterprise efficiencies that power competitive advantage.
Companies across the globe have an ever greater need for flexible, scalable and extensible infrastructures which can bring customers and suppliers closer to them, better integrate supply chains, capitalize on emerging industry standards; and, provide greater shareholder value while competing more effectively in the twenty-first century.
Industry standards, such as EDI, continue to be an important, yet singular component, which is quickly being overshadowed by newer collaborative technologies such JSON, Web Services, and the like, that are more suited for the evolving Software as a Service landscape.
Informatica, a recognized leader in business-to-business data exchange and data integration space, has launched richer out-of-the-box partner collaboration tools, including a new partner portal and support for the latest EDI standards and best practices. Informatica’s modern B2B Data Exchange product is designed to power collaborative partner networks to securely exchange an increasingly wide variety of data types including, but not limited to, these industry standards mentioned.
Although there are numerous portal products on the market, Informatica has created a new “first” with an out-of-the-box self-service partner portal which empowers business partners with the ability to easily set up, manage and monitor their data exchanges for greater collaboration and agility. More importantly, this has exposed what is normally considered back-office functionality forward of the DMZ where the partner can perform their own mapping, file testing and file transfer—enabling a business partner to do their own transformational mapping of different file formats as an “unheard-of first” in the industry!
Instead of manually having to set up every new partner via email or phone communications, partners can now self-provision their own data feeds reducing errors commonly experienced with manual setups. Exposing and enabling partners with this functionality accelerates partner onboarding and takes data exchange to the next level.
EDI is a powerful standard for business-to-business data exchange that is used across the globe by hundreds of thousands of companies. However, with a post WWII heritage, EDI is complex and not easy to implement. It predates the advent of the internet, of XML, of Web Services and virtually all modern technological improvements. Therefore, to make it easier and faster to implement, Informatica has created a new EDI Accelerator package to enable companies to rapidly implement a modernized EDI-enabled B2B Gateway with the flexibility to go beyond the normal limitations of EDI. Informatica’s EDI Accelerator package includes pre-packaged data transformations, pre-built EDI workflows and out-of-the box usable dashboards for monitoring and managing business operations–all based on industry best practices. With this solution, your business and IT organization can rapidly deploy a standards-based B2B Gateway fully extensible to meet your specific business or IT needs for exchanging any and all data types beyond standard EDI in the same agile system.
But how do we leverage industry standards? And, what about the non-EDI partners such as the mom and pops that are not EDI capable? With a large community of partners, there is a tremendous need for different data standards relevant to a specific industry as well as the ability to ingest and work with PDFs, Excel files, Words docs and other complex or unusual data types. When dealing with large communities of smaller companies spread across different geographies, IT shops and business owners need the flexibility to receive and transform an increasing variety of data types—and collaborating with business partners is more important than ever. This is where Informatica’s B2B Data Exchange solution truly shines.
Informatica B2B Data Exchange is the most modern and flexible standards-driven solution to future-proof partner networks. With a standards library consisting of more than 200 standards libraries and a library customization tool enabling modifications to the standards, Informatica’s B2B Gateway sets itself apart from the competition. It can support any data type, including complex industry standards or desktop formats such as PDF and Microsoft Office files, as well as, data that is unstructured, or has a specialized structure, can be securely exchanged and processed. In addition to rich data transformation capabilities, Informatica’s B2B Gateway can leverage Data Quality and Data Masking options to clean and secure any partner data.
To drive the most value from partner-based data, your company will need to seamlessly connect any data from outside-the-four-walls to internal systems in the trusted zone. Informatica’s Data Integration Hub is complementary to the B2B Gateway and can manage mixed-latency integrations between back-end accounting & ERP systems, operational and analytical data stores, data warehouses and virtually any and all data stores including support for Big Data and Hadoop requirements.
Take your organization’s partner network to the next level with Informatica B2B Data Exchange.
Join us in a webinar on September 15th featuring IDC Research Manager for the multi-enterprise integration market, Chandana Gopal, to hear about the latest market trends and how Informatica can accelerate your company’s partner network business value.
Popular Informatica Products are Now Fully Supported on AWS EC2 for Greater Agility
An increasing number of companies around the world moving to cloud-first or hybrid architectures for new systems to process their data for new analytics applications. In addition to adding new data source from SaaS (Software as a Service) applications to their data pipelines, they are hosting some or all of their data storage, processing and analytics in IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) public hosted environments to augment on-premise systems. In order to enable our customers to take advantage of the benefits of IaaS options, Informatica is embracing this computing model.
As announced today, Informatica now fully supports running the traditionally on-premise Informatica PowerCenter, Big Data Edition (BDE), Data Quality and Data Exchange on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute (EC2). This provides customers with added flexibility, agility and time-to-production by enabling a new deployment option for running Informatica software.
Existing and new Informatica customers can now choose to develop and/or deploy data integration, quality and data exchange in AWS EC2 just as they would on on-premise servers. There is no need for any special licensing as Informatica’s standard product licensing now covers deployment on AWS EC2 on the same operating systems as on-premise. BDE on AWS EC2 supports the same versions of Cloudera and Hortonworks Hadoop that are supported on-premise.
Customers can install these Informatica products on AWS EC2 instances just as they would on servers running on an on-premise infrastructure. The same award winning Informatica Global Customer Service that thousands of Informatica customers use is now available on call and standing by to help with success on AWS EC2. Informatica Professional Services is also available to assist customers running these products on AWS EC2 as they are for on-premise system configurations.
Informatica customers can accelerate their time to production or experimentation with the added flexibility of installing Informatica products on AWS EC2 without having to wait for new servers to arrive. There is the flexibility to develop in the cloud and deploy production systems on-premise or develop on-premise and deploy production systems in AWS. Cloud-first companies can keep it all in the cloud by both developing and going into production on AWS EC2.
Customers can also benefit from the lower up-front costs, maintenance costs and pay-as-you-go infrastructure pricing of AWS. Instead of having to pay upfront for servers and managing them in an on-premise data center, customers can use virtual servers in AWS to run Informatica products on. Customers can use existing Informatica licenses or purchase them in the standard way from Informatica for use on top of AWS EC2.
Combined with the ease of use of Informatica Cloud, Informatica now offers customers looking for hybrid and cloud solutions even more options.
Read the press release including supporting quotes from AWS and Informatica customer ProQuest, here.
