Building on their extensive partnership, Informatica and Databricks are helping customers create and manage AI-ready data and Generative AI analytics on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced the latest advances in its continuing partnership with Databricks, the data and AI company. New areas of collaboration include deeper integration between Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, including Informatica support for AI Functions on Databricks in Informatica’s Native SQL ELT that processes no-code data pipelines natively on Databricks.

“We are seeing phenomenal success with our Databricks-related business, with rapid growth and delivering impactful business outcomes for customers such as Takeda, KPMG and Point72 to name just a few,” said Amit Walia, Chief Executive Officer at Informatica. “One of our key priorities while partnering with Databricks is empowering customers to build enterprise-grade GenAI applications. These applications leverage high-quality, trusted enterprise data to provide high-impact Gen AI applications with rich business context and deep industry semantic understanding while adhering to enterprise data governance policies.”

“As demand for data intelligence increases, we want to help our customers build and deploy high-quality AI applications that deliver accurate, domain-specific outputs,” added Adam Conway, SVP of Products at Databricks. “As a leader in cloud-native, AI-powered data management, Informatica is a key partner of ours, supporting everything from data integration and transformation to data quality, governance and protection.”

On the product front, the recently introduced support for Databricks AI Functions in Informatica’s Native SQL ELT enables organizations leveraging Databricks to rapidly adopt GenAI capabilities of the Databricks Data Intelligence platform with no-code data pipelines, opening Databricks GenAI capabilities to no-code users and ensuring consistency, maintainability and optimal performance of data pipelines running natively on Databricks. The AI Functions on Databricks enable customers to use key Gen AI capabilities, including sentiment analysis, similarity matching, summary generation, translation and grammar correction on your data directly from SQL.

In addition, Informatica’s new Native SQL ELT for Databricks makes it possible to “push down” data pipelines with 50+ out-of-the-box transformations and support for 250+ native Databricks SQL functions to run natively and efficiently on Databricks via Databricks SQL. This enables customers to easily build data pipeline flows in Databricks by leveraging Informatica’s powerful no-code/low-code SQL ELT capabilities.

Late last year, Informatica announced a GenAI Blueprint for Databricks and other enterprise-grade capabilities, including support for Databricks’ Unity Catalog in IDMC. The IDMC platform includes multiple features optimized for Databricks, such as 300-plus data connectors, the ability to create low-code/no-code data pipelines, data ingestion and replication, and GenAI-driven automation via Informatica’s CLAIRE GPT and CLAIRE Co-pilot.

Informatica was recognized by Databricks as its 2024 Data Integration Partner of the Year at the Data + AI Summit. Informatica and Databricks have worked closely over the past several years to deliver transformative data management and analytics solutions to many enterprise customers. Together, they are driving new ways to develop and manage GenAI and analytics workloads across their platforms.

Additional Resources:

Amit Walia, Informatica CEO and Adam Conway, SVP Products at Databricks discuss the companies’ latest joint advances here.

Informatica joined Databricks in a recent webinar focused on Intelligent Data Engineering in the era of AI. The webinar can be viewed here.

About Informatica

Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, brings data and AI to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets. We have created a new category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC). IDMC is an end-to-end data management platform, powered by CLAIRE® AI, that connects, manages and unifies data across any multi-cloud or hybrid system, democratizing data and enabling enterprises to modernize and advance their business strategies. Customers in approximately 100 countries, including more than 80 of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica to drive data-led digital transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.

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