Informatica Intelligent Data Platform

Informatica Intelligent Data Platform — completely integrated, highly intellectual and easily scalable platform for support of digital transformation of business. The functionality of platform 10.2 is enhanced by artificial intelligence of CLAIRE.

The modular structure of Intelligent Data Platform allows to increase gradually possibilities of the platform, adding products as required, according to relevant business needs.

2020: Integration with SAP Data Warehouse Cloud

The platform for data management of Informatica was integrated with cloud solutions of SAP for work with data and analytics. On June 25, 2020 the DIS Group company reported about it.

Integration will help to optimize implementing solutions of SAP, including Data Warehouse Cloud. Besides, the uniform reference architecture of the products Informatica and SAP which will accelerate implementation of the combined joint solutions is developed. There will be an opportunity to use an integration framework of data of Informatica within work with SAP applications.

Thanks to integration development of the analyst will cover both a landscape of SAP solutions, and data from external sources. Data from external sources will move at the same time to SAP Data Warehouse Cloud using Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services.

Besides, expanded integration of Informatica and SAP considerably strengthened partnership between two companies.

The president of SAP in the HANA direction and means of analytics Gerrit Kasmeier notes:

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud collects diverse data in uniform storage, helping to ensure safety, reliability and a semantic variety of information. Within the partnership with Informatica we work on deepening of integration of solutions in general. It concerns optimization at the level of data, metadata and also – regarding integration of architecture of products for the help to our joint clients.

This partnership considerably will improve possibilities of Informatica in the field of integration into SAP solutions. It will become a part of a number of continuous innovations which we carry out in the partner ecosystem to help clients to optimize work with data, – Amit Valia, the CEO of Informatica emphasized. – Thanks to solutions of Informatica and SAP will give an impetus date-centrichnoy of digital transformation at the clients.

2019: Catalog of Catalogs and Informatica Data Marketplace functions

On December 27, 2019 the DIS Group company reported that as a part of the platform of data management Informatica Intelligent Data Platform with the artificial intelligence (AI) of CLAIRE there were additional functions among which – the directory of the Catalog of Catalogs directories (in the solution Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog) and supermarket of data Data Marketplace (in the solution Informatica Axon Data Governance).

According to the developer, Catalog of Catalogs with AI provides accounting of all metadata and building of interrelations (data lineage, linedzhy data) for all data of the company and all scenarios of their use. It helps to receive more complete understanding of corporate information in all ecosystems of the organization. Data Marketplace allows business users to look for, browse data from a uniform control panel, to make requests to them, to get access to the reliable corporate information.

"The provided functions expand possibilities of use of Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog and Informatica Axon Data Governance. Catalog of Catalogs will allow to work with metadata of all directories which are set in the company. Data Marketplace will become the separate convenient environment for use of data not by IT specialists", 'Pavel Likhnitsky, the CEO of DIS Group noted'

As noted in DIS Group, a number of improvements which will help the companies to catalog more effectively data was carried out to Informatica Intelligent Data Platform, to manage them and to protect them, to use advanced analytics and it is better to understand the clients. Also the functionality of work with data in cloud and hybrid environments was enhanced.

Among updates in the field of cataloguing of data – the improved connections for collecting of metadata from BI- solutions (for example Qlik Sense Microsoft PowerBI), databases and storages (for example SAP BW SAP BW/4HANA, Snowflake and Cassandra), cloud platforms (for example Google Cloud Storage), ETL- tools and directories of metadata (for example, AWS Glue). Also the directory of rules of ensuring quality of data and a possibility of monitoring of this quality is added to the platform. Besides, the Data Provisioning tool which allows data scientists also users of BI solutions to move independently data to a unified environment for separate use was added. Profiling of data with the help became available Spark. It, according to DIS Group, allowed to increase by 3-5 times data processing performance in the environment Hadoop and to provide scalability to billions of lines. Creation linedzhy (interrelations) of metadata from tools integration, BI solutions and other directories of data is improved. Multilevel viewing linedzhy allows users to see interrelations between data at the level and systems, and separate fields. There was a possibility of export of data from the directory and exchange of metadata in it. Using artificial intelligence of CLAIRE machine learning it is also possible to define and find difficult business entities, to reveal the key relations in data sets.

According to the developer, in the field of data management and their protection a number of improvements was also made. The supermarket of data Data Marketplace uses tools for ensuring quality of data, management of metadata, data protection, builds end-to-end linedzh. AI automates cataloguing and classification of data from all sources, keeps their account in uniform space with an opportunity to completely browse business semantics and linedzh of data. Information on quality of data, their sources, their confidentiality, the status of protection and access to them and also – about politicians who define their use became more transparent. At the same time the owner of data can agree the accessibility to data in advance. The categorization of data allows to find and browse easily parts for simpler access to managed data. Updates will provide qualification selection of priority assets of data. It will help to increase productivity of work of IT service and its compliance to requirements of business. At the same time the quality of data and privacy policy of data will improve.

Changes in the Informatica platform concerned also analytics. The updated line Informatica Data Engineering Big Data (earlier) will help to implement more effectively initiatives in the field of advanced analytics and data science. In particular, the latest version of Spark in the cloud analytical systems is supported Databricks, AWS and Microsoft Azure. Besides, recommendations on the basis of artificial intelligence became available to pipelines of engineering of data and also – to a categorization, creation linedzhy data and data preparation. Updates which support advanced scenarios of use of engineering of data are also implemented. Among these scenarios there is an application blockchain for applications financial in the field of, spheres security and health care. Also advanced support of the register became available to Confluent Schema. Pipelines of stream data were transformed, in particular, in the field of quality assurance and search of a data structure using artificial intelligence of CLAIRE, noted in DIS Group.

According to the developer, also solutions for work with client data were improved. There was an opportunity to look for different options of records about the same entity, to compare them, to validate using artificial intelligence. Records are automatically compared, cleaned, enriched more effectively using AI which takes their context into account. It helps to simplify use given for the best understanding of the clients by the company, quality improvements of client experience. The technology of "fuzzy logic" SSA-Name3 for search of different options of records about one entity and for data of these options in one "gold" record has a possibility of verification of the address. It allows to automate tracking of data, their cleaning, standardization, provides easier information search, increases its reliability. For bigger productivity of marketing initiatives dashborda were improved. They became more flexible and give the chance of independent work of business users at personalisation of the offer, monitoring and preparation of the reporting. It is provided due to additional functionality for creation of client segments and management with them.

2017: Release of platform 10.2 with AI of CLAIRE

On September 22, 2017 the Informatica company announced release of Informatica Intelligent Data Platform of version 10.2 with the built-in artificial intelligence of CLAIRE which it is used from low-level tasks of cataloguing and a research of data to high-level problems of data management.

In the whole Intelligent Data Platform 10.2 will allow customers:

• increase indicators of ROI from implementation of high-tech innovative solutions of management of all amount of data in the organization;
• build in the shortest possible time complete approach of data management according to internal regulations and regulatory regulations;
• to quickly derive a benefit maximum from data, regardless of volume, types of sources and structure;
• to quickly begin to use the platform both in normal, and in cloud environments.

Among version 10.2 opportunities in Informatica select:

• inclusion in Enterprise Information Catalog of opportunities for management, research and the analysis of the metadata based on technologies of neural networks and artificial intelligence of CLAIRE;
• expansion of opportunities in the field of management of Big Data, including updating of such products, as Big Data Management, Intelligent Streaming, Intelligent Data Lake;
• integration into the platform of management of Big Data of the advanced solutions from Open Source world, including popular Spark, Spark Streaming, Kafka, Zeppelin and others;
• integration of Informatica Axon which is a part of Data Governance of the next generation with Enterprise Information Catalog and Informatica Data Quality;
• expansion of opportunities of the solution Secure@Source ensuring a complex research and safety of crucial data in the organization.

According to Amit Valia (Amit Walia), the executive vice president of corporation Informatica, Intelligent Data Platform with the built-in AI of CLAIRE closes all tasks as a part of the strategic approach to data management which is the cornerstone of business digital-transformation:

• management of all data array in the organization,
• security of crucial information,
• quality assurance and accuracy of the data,
• scaling of an ecosystem of data,
• data acquisition in real time.

Use of artificial intelligence and machine learning will allow to lower an implementation time of projects on data management and to increase return from them. Support of different technologies allows to process with a high performance data on Hadoop as in batch mode, and in real time, at the same time saving simplicity of development and support which is inherent in all solutions of Informatica. It allows to make technologies of data processing on Hadoop available to simple developers that is especially relevant because of the shortage of highly specialized resources on work with Big Data — Mikhail Komarov, the director of business development of DIS Group, the official distributor of Informatica in Russia and the countries of the CIS said.