Informatica 9.6 adds advanced features to data integration platform

REDWOOD CITY, USA: Informatica Corporation today announced the release of its new Informatica 9.6 platform. New capabilities make it easy to develop and deploy all kinds of data projects - from everyday integration projects to new cloud and big data projects.

The new 9.6 platform, with fully integrated agile development, delivers business value up to five times more quickly than competing or traditional approaches.

"With data volumes and complexity soaring, and bad data costing hundreds of billions of dollars annually, enterprises need as comprehensive an integration platform as possible for effective data management," said Anil Chakravarthy, executive vice president and chief product officer, Informatica.

"Today, Informatica delivers ‘great data' for individuals and organizations. This great data is a true differentiator because customers can gain a competitive advantage when they can find, clean and transform data to fit their business needs. The most complete platform available, only Informatica 9.6 delivers data at any scale - from departmental to enterprise and from transactional to big data - while accelerating many data integration projects by a factor of five."

The Informatica Platform navigates data projects, ranging from modest departmental projects to the largest of multi-node cluster Hadoop projects. It delivers great data by bringing together people, technology and process. Informatica 9.6 offers three new platform packages - including new versions of PowerCenter Standard and PowerCenter Advanced, and a new PowerCenter Premium Edition - plus a new, free trial of the Informatica PowerCenter Big Data Edition.

"Clean, safe and connected data is neither a large data nor a large enterprise luxury," Chakravarthy said. "It is an every-enterprise imperative. We've built rapid prototyping and basic profiling into our platform. In today's data world, these capabilities are not a luxury, they're a necessity."

The Informatica Platform harnesses both the power and the simplicity of the cloud. Today, about 2,000 companies, representing more than two billion records per day, run their business on Informatica Cloud. New Informatica Cloud capabilities include:

• Informatica Cloud Designer, which marries the simplicity of wizard-based mappings with the flexibility of advanced mapping capabilities.

• Informatica Cloud Test Data Management that gives application administrators the ability to create secure test data subsets for development activities.

The new set of toolkits and trial editions take the Informatica Platform throughout the development community. New offerings include:

• Informatica Software Developer Toolkit simplifying the development of custom data integration connectors using Eclipse-based authoring, configuration and publishing to the Informatica Marketplace.

• Informatica Vibe Starter Kit to jumpstart a hybrid data landscape.