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Partners Show Overwhelming Support For Informatica 9.1 For Big Data Offering And Launch
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 6, 2011 -- Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) the world's number one independent provider of data integration software, today announced overwhelming industry support for Informatica 9.1, the industry's first unified data integration platform designed to unleash the full business potential of Big Data to empower the data centric-enterprise.

"With Informatica's nearly two decades of data integration innovation and leadership, the company is uniquely positioned to tackle Big Data and today more than 50 Informatica partners expressed support for Informatica 9.1," said Paul Hoffman, President, WW Field Operations at Informatica. "Informatica 9.1 was developed with the express purpose of turning Big Data challenges into big opportunities for Informatica customers and our partners. Working in conjunction with Informatica's vast global partner ecosystem, Informatica 9.1 uniquely delivers well-differentiated support for Big Data trends on a single platform to empower the data-centric enterprise."

Informatica 9.1 for Big Data Empowers the Data-Centric Enterprise by providing four critical capabilities:
Big Data integration.
Authoritative and trustworthy data.
Self-service.
Adaptive Data Services.

Leading global systems integrators technology partners, channel partners and independent software partners supporting Informatica 9.1 include:

Informatica 9.1 for Big Data to Empower the Data-centric Enterprise

3sage Consulting, LLC - "We help our clients realize that data is the foundation of business, and that they must manage their information as a strategic corporate asset. To do so, they must deploy holistic solutions to enable them to manage the quality, consistency, and agility of data throughout their enterprise. Informatica 9.1 provides a single platform, enabling our clients to manage data of any volume, diversity or complexity as a service to all projects, across all time scales."
- Rick Young, Managing Director

Crowe Horwath LLP - "As a leading provider of information management solutions for financial services firms, Crowe Horwath welcomes the release of Informatica 9.1. This faster, more powerful and streamlined product provides new technology for business users to assess the quality of their data. We're currently helping a number of clients migrate to Informatica 9.1, which we believe should facilitate better regulatory compliance and risk integration across the lines of business."
- Tapan Shah, Senior Manager

Edgewater Technology - "Informatica has a truly world-class set of data mapping, quality assurance, ETL, and information life-cycle management tools that extend and scale very naturally to the growing needs of today's increasingly data-intensive healthcare enterprise. With Informatica 9.1's integrated suite, Edgewater has become a trusted strategic and technology services partner, enabling our clients' healthcare executives and leaders to continually innovate and adapt to the ever-changing scientific, technological, regulatory, economic and competitive landscape."
- Kenneth Parks, Director of Consulting

HCL America - "PowerCenter is the hub of our integration infrastructure. With the 9.1 release, we will be able to upgrade our data integration capabilities and take on even more projects. And the upgrade process to the 9 version has been easy and painless—just like we would expect from Informatica."
- Prasad Chodavarapu – VP & Global Delivery Head – Transformation Services

Softpath System LLC - "Informatica's comprehensive, unified, open data integration platform has long been at the heart of our data and information infrastructure. Its latest release, Informatica 9.1, adds critical capabilities in areas such as Big Data, master data management, data quality, and data services to deliver trustworthy, actionable, and authoritative information directly to the business."
- Ravi Chander, CEO

Informatica 9.1: Big Data Integration

Attensity - "As customer data and analytical needs increase exponentially -- fueled by growth in social media and internal customer data sources like email, CRM notes and survey responses -- both enterprise and government organizations require Big Data scale. Informatica 9.1 combined with Attensity's market-leading text analytics solution helps our large customers leverage both their high-volume structured and unstructured customer data as a business asset. Through multi-channel data integration, transformation, quality, and master data management, combined with deep multi-channel analytics, organizations can understand and act on sentiment, issues, suggestions, and requests at scale and in real time in order to delight their customers."
- Ian Hersey, Chief Technology Officer

Cloudera - "Data-driven organizations are challenged not just by the structuring of new classes of enterprise data, but also with efficiently scaling the collection and processing of that data. This is a primary driver in the broad adoption of our Apache Hadoop-based solutions. It's exciting that users of Informatica's data integration platform can now easily interact with Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop. The integration of Cloudera's products and the Informatica platform enables PowerCenter users to immediately interact with data in Hadoop and expands their ability to derive valuable insights from complex and unstructured data sets."
- Ed Albanese, Head of Business Development

Cognizant - "Virtualization, cloud computing and social networking, while enabling more efficient and effective ways of working, add complexity to the assembly and management of enterprise data. With a platform like Informatica 9.1 for Big Data, we can help clients more effectively integrate growing volumes of data – upstream and downstream – by establishing 'social connectivity' to accelerate the conversion of raw information into precision insight. Our Big Data Center of Excellence leverages leading-edge products like Informatica 9.1 to help clients extract ever-increasing business value from the growing deluge of enterprise data. As such, we look forward to the advanced metadata features in the next release of the Platform to help us deliver faster impact analysis."
- Karthik Krishnamurthy, Global Business Leader of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence & Performance Management Practice

Dell - "The massive acceleration in the volume and variety of data is both an opportunity and a challenge for business process owners and IT application owners at Dell, and for our customers that deal with "big data." The big data integration capabilities of Informatica 9.1 are key and will enable us to capitalize on the opportunity and mitigate the challenges of "big data" so we can monetize it and open the door for Dell and our Dell Services customers to get ahead of the competition."
- Mike Lampa, Director, Business Intelligence Analytics Portfolio Development

EMC - "EMC has been empowering organizations to adopt new and more effective strategies to manage Big Data. Now with our EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA) line of products, our customers can drive new business initiatives, new sources of revenue, and new ways of doing research — all while addressing the increasing need for performance and cost-effective storage options. With Informatica 9.1, we look forward to seeing our joint customers tackle the world of Big Data to drive competitive advantage."
- Scott Yara, Co-founder of Greenplum and Vice President of Products, Data Computing Division

Experis IT - "Once again Informatica recognizes a need in the market to tap into the ever-expanding data sources and data types that exist today, both internally and externally. Others talk about "BI Light" - Informatica 9.1 brings us "Big Data Rich." This allows Experis to reduce the time it takes our clients to support new business initiatives by shifting to an architecture based on reusable data services. Experis consulting strengths combined with Big Data Services capabilities ensure clients that we can deliver data of any volume, diversity or complexity as a service to all projects, across all time scales."
- Jeff Eckhaus, Director BI Practice

Expert System - "Data is at the heart of an organization, be it for an enterprise or a government institution. Industry leaders have been relying on Informatica and Expert System to turn evolving insights into sentiment analysis through semantic understanding of Big Data. Informatica 9.1 helps our customers leverage massive transaction data and interaction data like social media, clickstream and image files for improved analytics and operations. Expert System also looks forward to helping our joint customers with a Big Data processing framework, such as Hadoop, to extend their environment."
- Marco Varone, Chief Technology Officer

Information Control Corporation - "The true value of business intelligence is enabling customers to not only contain costs, but increase revenue streams. Informatica's ability to turn Big Data into actionable information will help Information Control Corporation's clients achieve real value by providing the right solutions to support all stakeholders who need to be involved in big data analytics and integration processes. ICC clients are certain to find huge benefits in leveraging Informatica 9.1 to support their big data applications to underpin their strategic business processes."
- Jim Gallo, Partner Channels Manager

Lunexa - "Our clients in vertical industries from Financial Services to Telecommunications are seeking solutions to leverage their data at the most granular level – including transaction and order details, web hits, clicks and media plays, and call detail records. All of these present Big Data processing challenges. Informatica 9.1, the most recent Informatica Platform release, addresses these challenges by continuing to advance the frontiers of data integration to now embrace Big Data. The Informatica 9.1 Platform gives our team of Lunexa consultants the ability to deliver leading-edge and high quality data integration and analytics solutions to our clients – many of whom have been facing the challenges of Big Data for the past decade."
- Alex Macievich, Partner

ParAccel – "For the past five years, ParAccel has been at the forefront of "Big Data Analytics" – ensuring that our customers get more value from all of their available data. Together with Informatica 9.1, we further empower customers to tackle the most complex analytic challenges using increasingly diverse volumes of data. Our growing partnership with Informatica ensures that our joint customers can take full advantage of new data types like social, sensor, electronic medical record (EMR), and RFID data, as well as emerging technologies and trends such as Hadoop and NoSQL."
- Barry Zane, Chief Technology Officer

Systems Evolution, Inc. - "Informatica is once again at the forefront of data integration innovation. This time they lead the way in support of the trends around big data. Regardless of whether a customer's needs require interaction with "big transaction data," "big data processing" or "big interaction data," Informatica 9.1 has a big solution. Forward thinking companies would be wise to investigate the interaction data capabilities available in 9.1, whereby a wealth of information can be gathered from social networking sites, allowing companies to better understand their customers and drive increased revenues."
- Mark Oreszko, Senior Consultant

Teradata - "Data volumes continue to rise, so figuring out how to manage the data – what to keep, how to integrate it, and how to mine it for useful information – will become more critical than ever before. Effectively utilizing this data —social, geospatial, mobile or even weather data —provides valuable insight into new revenue opportunities, ways to reduce costs or even improvements in environmental sustainability. Informatica 9.1 allows our joint customers to transform Big Data into business value through actionable, trusted insight available from Teradata for improved analytics and operations."
- Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer

Vertica, an HP company - "The Vertica Analytics Platform was built from the ground up to push the frontiers of performance and scale within the Big Data economy, empowering users to monetize all of their data. With Informatica 9.1, our joint customers can now analyze large-scale transaction, social, device, call detail record (CDR), and other types of Big Data, uncovering the valuable pieces of information hidden in the massive amounts of data available, previously undiscoverable with their legacy systems. With Informatica and Vertica, organizations of all sizes can uncover new business opportunities from Big Data, and streamline processes that previously required manual intervention to deliver business-critical information at the point of impact."
- Scott Howser, VP of Product Marketing

Wipro Technologies - "Enterprises today face significant challenges and opportunities due to the proliferation and growth of data i.e. big data, which can be difficult to store, manage and analyze. The need of the hour is effective data management and integration solutions for big data. The big data integration capabilities of Informatica 9.1 will allow enterprises to drive strong business performance by transforming their data assets into more relevant, contextual and insightful information. We look forward to leveraging these capabilities, combined with our market-leading solutions and in-depth expertise, to provide a differentiated value proposition to our global customers."
- K. R. Sanjiv, Sr. Vice President and Global Head, Analytics & Information Management

Informatica 9.1: Authoritative and Trustworthy

AE Business Solutions - "Organizations across all industries recognize the impact that data quality has on daily decision-making. As environments grow more sophisticated, our clients are increasingly focusing on data quality and MDM initiatives in an effort to improve their data reliability, accuracy, and timeliness. Informatica 9.1 will help organizations take the next step in ensuring they have the right data to make the right decisions."
- Kevin Kundinger, Analytics Specialist

Agile Solutions Ltd. - "Today's agile business is first and foremost an information-driven enterprise, and the timely accessibility of integrated and trusted data is the foundation of this agility. We've always seen Informatica as an agile technology partner. Agile Solutions has been helping companies across all vertical sectors for over 10 years meet business challenges with our trust-based solutions. Organizations dealing with risk analysis, regulatory compliance, mergers & acquisitions, and other business concerns can now take advantage of Informatica 9.1, driving greater agility by delivering trustworthy and actionable data even more rapidly to the business, and allowing the effective use of data when and where it is needed most."
- Owen Lewis, Managing Director
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Source: http://www.informatica.com/news_events/press_releases/Pages/06062011_informatica91_partners.aspx
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