Data integration software company Informatica has been named the worldwide revenue market leader in extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) for the fourth year in a row in Gartner`s 14 November 2005 report, Market Share and Forecast: ETL Tools, Worldwide, 2004-2009. According to the report, Informatica captured 25% of the ETL market, highlighting a strong revenue increase of 10.8% from 2003.
"The report confirms Informatica`s strategy to focus solely on the data integration market," says Charl Barnard, GM of Informatica at local distributor Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID).
"With two consecutive record revenue quarters and the introduction of PowerCenter 8, Informatica is on track to address the data integration industry as it expands beyond the traditional realm of data warehousing to encompass a much broader market that includes data migration, data consolidation, data synchronisation, integration competency centres and cross-enterprise data integration projects."
In the report, Gartner states: "The ETL market experienced stronger than expected growth in 2004 and the first half of 2005 as it began to evolve into a market of multipurpose data integration platforms suitable for use beyond the traditional domain of business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing."
Gartner also notes that "organisations are beginning to reconsider the costs and challenges of integrating data through custom coding. As a result, they are looking for commercial data integration software to automate data warehousing, data migration, data consolidation, master data management and data synchronisation."
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Informatica Corporation is a leading provider of data integration software. Using Informatica products, companies can access, integrate, visualise and audit their enterprise information assets to help improve business performance, increase customer profitability, streamline supply chain operations and proactively manage regulatory compliance. More than 2 000 companies worldwide rely on Informatica for their end-to-end enterprise data integration needs. Informatica is distributed, supported and maintained in South Africa by Knowledge Integration Dynamics (KID).
For more information, call (011) 462 1277, or visit www.informatica.com or www.kid.co.za.
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