One of the
biggest technical obstacles in the world of cloud computing is integrating cloud applications with each other and with on-premise systems. Data integration
software developer Informatica released a package of software tools the company
said can help businesses overcome those hurdles.
For
Informatica's channel partners and systems integration allies, the new cloud 9
toolset offers a means of building customized data integration software for
customers and assembling data integration links that can be reused in multiple
deployments, said Darren Cunningham, senior marketing director for
Informatica's on-demand products.
As more
businesses adopt Software-as-a-Service applications and other cloud computing
technologies, they find themselves wrestling with the problem of how to link
those applications with their existing IT systems. Informatica, a longtime
player in the data integration arena, is a natural to fill that role, company
executives argue. A number of younger companies are also jumping into the
on-demand data integration space, including Boomi and Cast Iron.
Informatica
Cloud 9 includes a multitenant, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) data integration
system that developers and systems integrator partners can use to build and
reuse custom data integration services and run them in the cloud, according to
the company. Business users can configure data rules or run data mappings built
by IT using Informatica Cloud Services for data integration.
Cloud 9
incorporates Informatica's Cloud Services Winter '09 release of purpose-built
Software-as-a-Service data integration applications for nontechnical users. It
also provides Address Quality Cloud services based on technology Informatica
acquired when it bought AddressDoctor in June. A new sandbox feature includes
data synchronization and replication capabilities for software development and
testing projects.
The
package also includes new and expanded offerings through Amazon's Elastic cloud computing (EC2) service. The new Informatica Data Quality cloud Edition, which
runs on Amazon EC2, offers data quality services such as profiling, cleansing
and matching. Informatica Cloud 9 also supports the recently released Amazon
Relational Database Service.
Earlier
this month Informatica unveiled Informatica 9, a new release of its core data
integration software that's the foundation for the new cloud computing offering.
The
Informatica Cloud Platform is currently available as a beta with the final
release scheduled for December priced at $1,000 per month. The Data Quality
Cloud Edition is available on Amazon EC2 as a beta with the production release
set for next year's first quarter. The Informatica Address Quality cloud
services are available today with pricing based on transaction volumes.
On ChannelWeb, Rick Whiting Writes, Informatica
Debuts Cloud Computing Integration Tools, November
26, 2009
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