# Informatica

> Informatica is the enterprise data-management specialist behind IDMC, a cloud platform for integrating, cataloging, cleaning, governing and mastering data across mixed technology estates. Founded in 1993 as an early ETL software company, it survived two public listings, a private-equity buyout and a difficult cloud transition before Salesforce acquired it in November 2025. Its value is not a glamorous model or app: it is the trusted metadata and data operations layer that helps large organizations give analytics and AI systems usable context.

- **Founded:** 1993
- **Headquarters:** Redwood City, United States
- **Founders:** Gaurav Dhillon (Co-founder and founding CEO), Diaz Nesamoney (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 5,200 employees at the end of 2024
- **Products:** PowerMart and PowerCenter, Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), CLAIRE AI, CLAIRE GPT, AI Agent Engineering
- **Notable:** Helped define the commercial ETL category with PowerMart and PowerCenter., Serves approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries, including more than 80 of the Fortune 100., Processed more than 128 trillion cloud transactions per month according to its current corporate profile.

## Products & services

- **PowerMart and PowerCenter** — The company's original visual ETL lineage for extracting, transforming and loading enterprise data; PowerMart won early recognition in 1996 and PowerCenter became a long-lived on-premises standard.
- **Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)** — A cloud-native, consumption-priced platform spanning data integration, catalog, quality, observability, governance, privacy, MDM, application integration and data marketplace services.
- **CLAIRE AI** — A metadata-powered automation layer for recommendations, copilots, natural-language interaction and autonomous data-management agents across IDMC.
- **CLAIRE GPT** — A conversational interface that helps users discover data, assess quality, explore master records and generate integration pipelines from natural-language instructions.
- **AI Agent Engineering** — Low-code capabilities for building, connecting, orchestrating and governing custom AI agents, with support for open standards including MCP.
- **Headless Data Management** — Reusable governed data services exposed through MCP, APIs and other endpoints so agents and developers can invoke IDMC capabilities from external tools and workflows.

## Achievements

- Helped define the commercial ETL category with PowerMart and PowerCenter.
- Serves approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries, including more than 80 of the Fortune 100.
- Processed more than 128 trillion cloud transactions per month according to its current corporate profile.
- Reached $827 million in cloud subscription ARR in 2024, up 34% year over year.
- Named a Leader in Gartner's data integration Magic Quadrant for the 20th consecutive edition in 2025, according to Informatica.
- Completed an approximately $8 billion acquisition by Salesforce in November 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Salesforce agreed to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion, or $25 in cash per share.
- **2025-11** — Salesforce completed the acquisition and said Informatica would continue supporting its broad partner ecosystem while integrating with Agentforce, Data 360, MuleSoft and Tableau.
- **2026-04** — Salesforce and Google Cloud announced expanded IDMC governance and multi-source connectivity for BigQuery and agent workflows.
- **2026-05** — Informatica introduced generally available headless data management, Headless CLAIRE, a Data Quality Agent and a unified agent-and-context catalog; other agentic services were scheduled for later in 2026.
- **2026-08** — Selected IDMC and MDM products went live for new-logo sales through Salesforce's go-to-market organization.

## Links

- Website: https://www.informatica.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/informatica/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Informatica
- GitHub: https://github.com/Informatica-EIC
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvXtdT5kAsavz662XL7umvg
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/informaticacorp/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InformaticaLLC

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Last updated: 2026-09-01