Key Highlights
- Informatica, an enterprise cloud data management specialist, has been named as an initial partner of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform Partner Ecosystem.
- Microsoft announced the launch of this partner ecosystem during its Microsoft Ignite 2022.
- This initiative represents an investment both companies are making toward helping enterprises truly operationalize AI with trusted and governed data.
By bringing the end-to-end data management capabilities of the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), which includes analytics and governance to augment the Analytics, data ingestion, and AI/ML capabilities of the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform (MIDP), the two companies will be deepening their collaboration to drive the next phase of AI-driven digital transformation.
Stewart Bond, VP of Data Intelligence and Integration Software Research at IDC, said that Informatica and Microsoft had been strong partners for years. This latest announcement highlights these two data leaders’ complementary capabilities and should benefit both companies’ customers.
This announcement comes after the recently announced Multidomain Master Data Management-as-a-Service on Microsoft Azure. Informatica has also launched its Data Loader for Microsoft Azure to help enterprises speed up the time from ingestion to business insights.
The no-cost, zero-code, zero-devops, zero infrastructure needed cloud data management SaaS offering will help departmental users across the organization to move from data to insights in minutes, as opposed to weeks.
The Data Loader of Informatica offers a simple three-step, the wizard-driven experience that automatically captures data and schema changes the source systems. Users can load unlimited data into Microsoft Synapse Analytics, putting the recent data at their fingertips to unlock meaningful analytics.
Amit Walia, CEO at Informatica, said that whether customers are focused on accelerating innovation by democratizing data-driven decision-making, achieving agility by decreasing friction in data flows across their data and analytics systems, or ensuring security and governance of their full-data estate Intelligent Data Management Cloud of Informatica offers a best-in-class solution to address each need.
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