REDWOOD CITY, USA: Informatica Corporation, an independent provider of data integration software, announced Informatica 9, touted to be the first data integration platform designed to enable the data-driven enterprise.

Data integration: A base for enterprise architecture

Informatica 9 is an unified and open data integration platform. It delivers a comprehensive platform by combining products in six categories: enterprise data integration, data quality, B2B data exchange, application information lifecycle management, complex event processing and cloud computing data integration. Informatica 9 is uniquely designed to be deployed on-premise or in the Internet cloud.

Sohaib Abbasi, chairman and CEO, Informatica, said: "Informatica 9 is a comprehensive infrastructure platform with products across six different technology categories that are unified to reduce IT costs and open to leverage data on-premise and in the Internet cloud. With Informatica 9, customers can gain competitive advantage with the most relevant, trustworthy and timely data as mandated by their top business imperatives."