Informatica


Informatica is a software development company founded in 1993. It is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Its core products include Enterprise Cloud Data Management and Data Integration. It was co-founded by Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney. Amit Walia is the company's CEO.

History

On 29 April 1999, its Initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange listed its shares under the stock symbol INFA.
On 7 April 2015, Permira and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced that a company controlled by the Permira funds and CPPIB would acquire Informatica for approximately US$5.3 billion.
On 6 August 2015, the acquisition was completed and Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures invested in the company as part of the deal. The company's stock ceased trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol INFA effective on the same date.

Products

Informatica's product is a portfolio focused on data integration: extract, transform, load, information lifecycle management, business-to-business data exchange, cloud computing integration, complex event processing, data masking, data quality, data replication, data virtualization, master data management, ultra messaging, and data governance. These components form a toolset for establishing and maintaining data warehouses. It has a customer base of over 9,500 companies.
In 2006, Informatica announced a "cloud business".

Financial results

Informatica has grown through a combination of sales growth and through company acquisitions.