Informatica has announced three new native integrations with Microsoft during Informatica World in Las Vegas. These integrations will streamline the process for Azure and Microsoft Fabric customers to discover, manage, and deploy AI-powered data management services within Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) platform, enabling the creation of trusted data for generative AI.
“Our long-standing partnership with Informatica is underscored by two enduring values: customer success and the impactful business outcomes we jointly accelerate for them. The combination of Microsoft’s data analytics capability of Microsoft Fabric and Informatica’s AI-powered IDMC platform will unlock tremendous new potential for our customers’ analytics and AI workloads.” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud + AI Group, Microsoft
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IDMC as an Azure Native ISV Service
IDMC as an Azure Native ISV Service offers Azure customers a native experience to discover and deploy IDMC within the Azure Management Console. This integration simplifies and accelerates the use of the AI-powered data management platform, enabling the creation of trusted data for analytics and generative AI workloads.
Users can run serverless IDMC data pipelines without managing virtual machines or clusters to support services like data integration and data quality. Purchases of IDMC services can be credited against Azure Consumption commitments through the Azure Marketplace.
Informatica Data Quality as a Microsoft Fabric Native Application
Informatica Data Quality as a Microsoft Fabric Native Application enables Fabric customers to utilize AI-powered data profiling and data quality services directly within OneLake. Users can discover, cleanse, enrich, and remediate data quality issues without leaving the Microsoft Fabric experience. This seamless integration helps build trusted data to enhance analytics and AI-driven use cases.
Strategic Partnership with Microsoft
As one of the first ISV Design Partners for Microsoft Fabric, Informatica has developed deeper integrations with Microsoft over the past two years. This collaboration delivers IDMC services, such as integration, quality, profiling, and marketplace, to Microsoft customers.
Cloud Data Access Management for Azure
Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM) for Azure enables enterprises to share securely and access data with authorized users while ensuring policy compliance and maintaining customer trust. Integrated within IDMC, Informatica’s CDAM solution offers universal, automated governance guardrails that protect sensitive, private, and confidential data with controls targeting specific rows, columns, and cells in structured data tables.
IDMC as an Azure Native ISV service is currently in public preview and will be generally available this summer. Informatica Data Quality as a Fabric Native Application will enter preview this summer. CDAM for Azure, released earlier this year, is already generally available.
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FAQs
1. What is the function of Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM) for Azure?
Cloud Data Access Management (CDAM) for Azure empowers enterprises to securely share and access data with authorized users while ensuring policy compliance and maintaining customer trust. Integrated within Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), CDAM provides universal, automated governance guardrails that protect sensitive, private, and confidential data. It offers controls targeting specific rows, columns, and cells in structured data tables to ensure data security and compliance.
2. How can customers benefit from IDMC as an Azure Native ISV Service?
Customers can benefit from streamlined deployment, easier management of data pipelines, and the ability to credit their purchases of IDMC services against their Azure Consumption commitments through the Azure Marketplace.
3. What are the Key Benefits of Informatica Cloud Data Access Management?
- Accelerate access to trusted data for innovation and competitive advantage
- Reduce the cost of compliance and reduce the risk of data misuse
- Simplify controls on data across complex, hybrid data operations
- Automate self-service access to data from hundreds of data sources
4. What is the purpose of Microsoft Fabric?
Microsoft Fabric is a comprehensive analytics and data platform tailored for enterprises seeking a unified solution. It covers various aspects such as data movement, processing, ingestion, transformation, real-time event routing, and report creation.
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