Informatica Inc. is an American

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development company founded in 1993. It is headquartered in

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. 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

Informatica was founded in 1993 by Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney. On 29 April 1999, its

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on the

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stock exchange listed its shares under the stock symbol INFA. On 7 April 2015,

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and

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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

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and

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invested in the company as part of the deal. The company's stock ceased trading on the Nasdaq effective on the same date. On 27 October 2021, Informatica again became publicly traded with the INFA stock symbol, this time listed on the

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, opening at $27.55 per share. In June 2023 Informatica acquired Privitar, a data management tool. In November 2023, Informatica announced a restructuring plan to focus on its cloud offerings. It permanently laid off 10% of its workforce and reduced its office space. In April 2024, the

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reported that

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was in advanced talks to acquire Informatica at a price below its $11 billion market capitalization at the time. The deal was eventually abandoned; however, just over a year later, in May 2025, Salesforce announced its intent to purchase Informatica for about $8 billion, subject to regulatory approval. In May 2025, the Wall Street Journal reported that Salesforce will acquire Informatica for $8 billion or $25 per share.

Products

Informatica's product portfolio is focused on

data integration Data integration refers to the process of combining, sharing, or synchronizing data from multiple sources to provide users with a unified view. There are a wide range of possible applications for data integration, from commercial (such as when a ...

extract, transform, load Extract, transform, load (ETL) is a three-phase computing process where data is ''extracted'' from an input source, ''transformed'' (including cleaning), and ''loaded'' into an output data container. The data can be collected from one or mor ...

, information lifecycle management,

business-to-business Business-to-business (B2B or, in some countries, BtoB) refers to trade and commercial activity where a business sees other businesses as its customer base. This typically occurs when: * A business sources materials for its production process for ...

data exchange Data exchange is the process of taking data structured under a ''source'' schema and transforming it into a ''target'' schema, so that the target data is an accurate representation of the source data. Data exchange allows data to be shared between ...

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

integration,

complex event processing Event processing is a method of tracking and analyzing (processing) streams of information (data) about things that happen (events), and deriving a conclusion from them. Complex event processing (CEP) consists of a set of concepts and techniques de ...

data masking Data masking or data obfuscation is the process of modifying sensitive data in such a way that it is of no or little value to unauthorized intruders while still being usable by software or authorized personnel. Data masking can also be referred ...

data quality Data quality refers to the state of qualitative or quantitative pieces of information. There are many definitions of data quality, but data is generally considered high quality if it is "fit for tsintended uses in operations, decision making and ...

data replication Replication in computing refers to maintaining multiple copies of data, processes, or resources to ensure consistency across redundant components. This fundamental technique spans databases, file systems, and distributed systems, serving to impro ...

, data virtualization, master data management, ultra messaging, and data governance. These components form a toolset for establishing and maintaining

data warehouse In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for Business intelligence, reporting and data analysis and is a core component of business intelligence. Data warehouses are central Re ...

s. It has over 9,500 customers. In 2006, Informatica announced a "cloud business". In 2023 it announced an AI-powered data management tool and began to fully transition to cloud-based offerings.

Financial results

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

References

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