Today we made an announcement called Informatica Cloud 9. This is the culmination of many years of hard work and effort and builds on the Informatica 9 announcement we made last week. So what is so special about Informatica Cloud 9? Is it the new Platform-as-a-Service offering? Or it is the new Cloud Services we delivered? Or is it the new capabilities on Amazon EC2? What are all these things and why are they important?
Let me explain:
Informatica Cloud 9 started over four years ago when we noticed the beginnings of a revolution happening around us – namely Cloud Computing. Many of you may not be familiar with our work in the Cloud, but we have been very focused on delivering data integration as a “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) solution. This has meant taking our enterprise class capabilities and simplifying the interface to an extent where a simple non-technical business user can point-and-click to connect a cloud application with an on-premise application.
We have always believed that this is critical to realize since business users typically put off the integration tasks because they don’t want to rely on IT for time or resources. So we wanted to make it incredibly easy for the business user to do this on their own. We focused on salesforce.com and built data movement and then data synchronization capabilities. Indeed, our Data Loader Service for salesforce.com was voted the best data integration solution on their AppExchange this year.
However, our belief is that while business users must be able to define an integration task, their IT colleagues should be able to see the same integration processes from within their environment. Only then will the business user be able to truly bring new applications into critical usage. The same needs to be true the other way around – we want to be able to define complex integrations and enable business users to be able to run them through an easy-to-use browser interface. Only then will the CFO, and others, be confident that they can trust the data being deployed across public and private clouds and begin to embrace cloud computing for core business requirements. We call this Business-IT collaboration and it was a big part of last week’s Informatica 9 announcement as well.
Cloud computing is re-defining IT and data integration needs to follow-suit. It is data integration that will be THE defining capability for cloud computing – not outsourced datacenters, or sexy new application solutions. So, to really embrace cloud computing, one needs a whole new way of delivering enterprise data integration that brings together the ease of use that business users require with the sophistication that must be delivered for IT architects. Otherwise cloud computing will simply remain the domain of non-critical fancy-looking applications on the periphery of true enterprise business requirements.
Informatica Cloud 9 is a significant step forward in solving this problem of providing data integration in the clouds. With today’s announcement, anyone who is involved with Informatica can build, share and deploy any data integration components and deploy them anywhere. These components may relate to data quality or data integration or indeed, with time, any of the other components that make up the Informatica 9 Platform. After all, Informatica Cloud 9 is built on the comprehensive and unified Informatica 9 and therefore will eventually inherit the core capabilities of the platform.
Informatica Cloud 9 delivers on this belief and provides three critical components towards that goal:
Informatica Cloud 9 is the evolution of enterprise data integration to the clouds. Take a few moments please to re-read the press release and, in particular, the quotes therein:
Let me explain:
Informatica Cloud 9 started over four years ago when we noticed the beginnings of a revolution happening around us – namely Cloud Computing. Many of you may not be familiar with our work in the Cloud, but we have been very focused on delivering data integration as a “Software-as-a-Service” (SaaS) solution. This has meant taking our enterprise class capabilities and simplifying the interface to an extent where a simple non-technical business user can point-and-click to connect a cloud application with an on-premise application.
We have always believed that this is critical to realize since business users typically put off the integration tasks because they don’t want to rely on IT for time or resources. So we wanted to make it incredibly easy for the business user to do this on their own. We focused on salesforce.com and built data movement and then data synchronization capabilities. Indeed, our Data Loader Service for salesforce.com was voted the best data integration solution on their AppExchange this year.
However, our belief is that while business users must be able to define an integration task, their IT colleagues should be able to see the same integration processes from within their environment. Only then will the business user be able to truly bring new applications into critical usage. The same needs to be true the other way around – we want to be able to define complex integrations and enable business users to be able to run them through an easy-to-use browser interface. Only then will the CFO, and others, be confident that they can trust the data being deployed across public and private clouds and begin to embrace cloud computing for core business requirements. We call this Business-IT collaboration and it was a big part of last week’s Informatica 9 announcement as well.
Cloud computing is re-defining IT and data integration needs to follow-suit. It is data integration that will be THE defining capability for cloud computing – not outsourced datacenters, or sexy new application solutions. So, to really embrace cloud computing, one needs a whole new way of delivering enterprise data integration that brings together the ease of use that business users require with the sophistication that must be delivered for IT architects. Otherwise cloud computing will simply remain the domain of non-critical fancy-looking applications on the periphery of true enterprise business requirements.
Informatica Cloud 9 is a significant step forward in solving this problem of providing data integration in the clouds. With today’s announcement, anyone who is involved with Informatica can build, share and deploy any data integration components and deploy them anywhere. These components may relate to data quality or data integration or indeed, with time, any of the other components that make up the Informatica 9 Platform. After all, Informatica Cloud 9 is built on the comprehensive and unified Informatica 9 and therefore will eventually inherit the core capabilities of the platform.
Informatica Cloud 9 delivers on this belief and provides three critical components towards that goal:
- With Data Quality Cloud Edition and PowerCenter Cloud Edition on Amazon EC2 we are providing a low-cost hourly build capability for IT users. With this, developers can build complex integrations between applications that can be published to non-technical line-of-business managers to consume and manage. Indeed any of the 50,000+ developers on the Informatica TechNet, or any of our Systems Integration partners will be able to do this. These integrations can be thought of as templates – picked up by anyone using the Informatica Cloud 9 Platform and re-deployed.
- With the Informatica Cloud 9 Platform-as-a-Service we are providing the multi-tenant, scalable enterprise engine for deploying data integration in the clouds. One note that you may not be familiar with – we are already running over 17,000 jobs a day through our multi-tenant Informatica Cloud Services and moving over three Billion rows a month of client data.
- With our new Informatica Cloud 9 services we are enhancing our own simple-to-use suite of data integration cloud applications that continue to evolve the role of the business user to be self-sufficient in their approach to accessing and integrating trustworthy cloud-based and on-premise data.
Informatica Cloud 9 is the evolution of enterprise data integration to the clouds. Take a few moments please to re-read the press release and, in particular, the quotes therein:
- “Informatica Cloud 9 will dramatically simplify cloud-to-cloud and cloud to on-premise data integrations…”
- “… the ability to develop more complex mappings and workflows and run them as custom services for line of business managers will allow us to continue to provide self-service, while IT remains in control…”
- “… we’ve developed an SAP data integration as a service solution…”
- “… we plan to develop re-usable templates to accelerate time to market and reduce total cost of ownership for our customers… “
- “Informatica Cloud Platform gives us the power and flexibility to meet enterprise requirements and deliver solutions to non-technical business users …”
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