35 Coolest Data Management And Integration Vendors, From CRN's Big Data 100

Informatica

Top Executive: CEO Anil Chakravarthy

Informatica is a long-established developer of data management and ETL technologies including tools for master data management, data and cloud integration, and data quality. The vendor's ETL (extract, transform and load) software has long been a key component of many companies' data integration practices.

In March Informatica, based in Redwood City, Calif., debuted Informatica Cloud Data Lake Management, a comprehensive system for managing data lakes in either cloud or on-premise environments. Built on the Informatica Intelligent Data Lake system, the new cloud system supports AWS Redshift and Aurora, and Microsoft's Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse.