In today’s real time, digital world, the ability to manage, integrate, and derive insights from data across various sources and formats is paramount for organizations seeking to stay competitive.
After publishing a POV whitepaper on Unified Data Engineering in 2024, Ferraro Consulting began looking closely at software and SaaS vendors who align well with unification. One of the obvious candidates was Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), a fully integrated, comprehensive data management offering built on active metadata as a foundation for AI-enabled data engineering.
In the mid-2010’s, before Informatica announced the release of Informatica IDMC in April 2021, they had become the dominant leader in data integration; but they were starting to lag behind because most of their products were available primarily on premises, loosely stitched together by a common set of metadata. Most of the Informatica web-enabled products lacked functionality and resembled the loosely knit architecture of their on premises counterparts.
Since that time, Informatica has completely transformed itself and is now well positioned for digital dominance. It is rare that “old” software companies rise out of aging descent. Most end up in the renewal business, resigning old customers and squeezing the most they can out of old products. Informatica has completely modernized and successfully emerged as a cloud first SaaS company.
John Santaferraro, CEO and Head Research Analyst at Ferraro Consulting, recently published a point of view paper demonstrating how Informatica IDMC aligns with Unified Data Engineering, the trend identified by Ferraro Consulting in January 2024. The Informatica review, Advancing Unified Data Engineering with Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), includes an overview of the Informatica platform, as well as some Informatica updates that demonstrate the viability and profitability of Informatica’s unified approach.