SLIDESHOW: 14 top platforms for data integration by David Weldon via @infomgmt

Informatica, Talend and Oracle are among the leaders in this space, according to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

Interesting list and a few surprises for me too.

Informatica announces industry’s first intelligent healthcare data lake by Kyt Dotson via @SiliconANGLE

Data management solutions and big data company Informatica LLC has announced the debut of the industry’s first intelligent data lake, a repository for raw data, that’s made specifically for healthcare.

Interesting new development which proves how common this approach is becoming.

Informatica Acquired for $5.3B Amid Big Data, Cloud Shifts

Private equity firm Permira and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board agreed to buy Informatica Corp. in a $5.3 billion transaction, the largest leveraged buyout this year.

Read about it here on +Information Management

Informatica,Virtual Data Machines and Vibe

In this Information Management blog entry by Bruce Guptill he talks about Informatica and their view of MDM.

In this IM blog it mentions Vibe from Informatica.  This is what they describe as a Virtual Data Machine (VDM) where the instruction and specification (business logic) are stored separately from where it will be executed.  This will enable definitions to be standardised and implemented on any machine or platform. Their standard MDM is described as Multidomain MDM so I guess Vibe is just an extension of that idea.