Informatica Data Engineering

Pulling data from many sources into one place is the work this product covers. Informatica Data Engineering ingests, combines and prepares data of many types, including large volumes of big data, for analytics and AI projects. It includes prebuilt data parsers, which read varied formats without custom coding, and tools that manage the relationships between data sets.

It runs inside the vendor's Intelligent Data Management Cloud, a single cloud platform the company describes as covering the management, governance and unification of an organization's data. The site states that the platform is powered by the company's AI engine and that its metadata system acts as a record of how data is defined and used.

Integration for analytics and AI

The product is aimed at teams that need to access, ingest and integrate data before they can analyze it. The company says this supports cloud modernization and speeds up analytics and AI work, because the data is already gathered and prepared when the analysts arrive. Feeding cloud data warehouses and data lakes is one of its main jobs.

Prebuilt parsers and relationship management

Ready-made parsers read data in a range of formats, so a data engineer does not need to write a separate reader for each source. Tools for managing big data relationships help the team keep the links between data sets consistent as the volumes grow.

Governance so that data can be trusted

Data governance and privacy tools help people find their data, understand where it came from and decide whether to rely on it. The business presents this as the step that lets decisions be made from data without each analyst checking its origin by hand.

Application integration and automation

Beyond analytics, the product can synchronize data between business applications and deliver it to the systems that need it. The vendor describes this as a way to modernize older applications quickly and to automate business processes that move information from one system to another.

Customers and cloud partners

The company says it works with more than five thousand active customers. Its site describes stories from businesses in healthcare, consumer goods and media, and says its products meet the security and privacy certifications that large cloud providers ask of their partners. The vendor also states that it is now part of Salesforce.