Informatica Recognized as an Industry Leader in Enterprise Data Catalogs

September 05, 2024 at 09:00 AM EDT

Independent Research Firm names Informatica a Leader in Enterprise Data Catalogs report.

Dresner Advisory Services ranks Informatica No. 1 in its rankings for enterprise data catalogs.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced it has been recognized by two prominent research firms, Forrester Research and Dresner Advisory Services, as a leader in enterprise data catalog technology. The company was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ Enterprise Data Catalogs, Q3 2024. Additionally, Dresner Advisory Services Data Catalog Study, 2024 Edition gave Informatica’s comprehensive data catalog capabilities its highest rating.

Data catalogs play a vital role in data management by helping enterprises organize, curate, categorize and locate data that may be widely distributed. Informatica’s Data Catalog is available as an AI-powered automated service in the Informatica Data Management Cloud platform.

The Forrester Wave: Informatica meets demand for democratization

Designed to help decision-makers differentiate between vendor options, Forrester's report evaluates top solutions and notes that customers are seeking solutions that can bridge the gap between complex datasets, governance, business insights and AI enablement. In naming Informatica as a Leader, Forrester recognized the company’s "superior cross-platform lineage, AI-driven data quality, IoT and edge integrations, intuitive UI/UX, advanced workflow designer, automated monitoring and actionable daily digests."

“Informatica shines with its comprehensive AI-powered data management platform,” wrote Jayesh Chauraisa, author of the Forrester Wave report. “At the heart of Informatica’s mission is democratization of high-quality governed data, a vision that has driven it to pioneer an end-to-end, multi-capability, AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform. The data catalog within IDMC enhances simplicity, scale and intelligent innovations across Informatica’s offerings, meeting enterprise demands for democratization and self-service.”

Dresner Advisory Services: Informatica plays a critical role in data management

Informatica also ranked in the highest position among 26 vendors in the Dresner report. The company earned its high ranking based on governance capabilities and data catalog/metadata management features.

According to the Dresner report, “The importance of a data catalog stems from its ability to enhance data discovery, enable data governance and compliance, foster collaboration, support data integration and analytics and facilitate data-driven decision making. It serves as a foundational technology that underpins effective data management and utilization within organizations.”

To read the Dresner Advisory Services report, visit here.

“Our AI-powered IDMC platform is intuitive to understand and scales with the most demanding enterprise needs, while providing best-in-class data quality and controls for clients who increasingly need data management for their AI initiatives,” said Brett Roscoe, Senior Vice President, and General Manager of Data Governance and Cloud Operations. “These reports, and our high rankings in each, reflect Informatica’s long-standing and ongoing commitment to the increasing value of data catalog technology. We look forward to helping build a future where every company’s data is ready for AI.”

To learn more about how Informatica’s long-standing commitment to best-in-class capabilities is changing how enterprises benefit from investments in AI, visit 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.