Informatica, a global leader in AI-powered cloud data management, has announced a significant strategic agreement with Microsoft. This collaboration builds on their longstanding partnership, fostering continued innovation and increased customer adoption of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The announcement was made during Informatica World, the company’s annual data management and AI conference, held in Las Vegas.
Through this agreement, Informatica and Microsoft aim to deliver integrated, AI-driven solutions by combining Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ platform with essential Microsoft services, such as Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Azure. Available as a SaaS offering on Azure and through the Azure Marketplace, Informatica’s platform empowers businesses to develop a secure, reliable data foundation for advanced analytics and AI-driven business transformations.
“As enterprises increasingly prioritize trusted data to fuel responsible AI, agents and next-generation analytics, Informatica and Microsoft are jointly committed to empowering our customers as they continue on their cloud and AI transformation journey,” said Amit Walia, CEO at Informatica. “This strategic agreement reflects our shared vision to drive customer success through co-innovation, go-to-market alignment and deep-field collaboration, helping organizations securely and efficiently scale AI across their data estate.”
This partnership builds on years of successful collaboration between the two companies, which include integrations with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Azure Cosmos DB. The new agreement marks another key milestone in their multi-decade relationship.
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Recent joint innovations include:
- Informatica’s cloud data management platform as an Azure Native Service, streamlining customer experiences with seamless Azure integrations.
- Design partnership with Microsoft Fabric to enable robust connectivity, data integration, and intelligent scanning capabilities.
- GenAI blueprint for Azure OpenAI Service, expediting the development of enterprise-grade GenAI and copilot experiences using Informatica’s Cloud Data Management Platform and Azure OpenAI Service.
Among the customers leveraging this collaboration is Jotun, a leading global manufacturer of paints and coatings, operating in over 100 countries. Gro Kamfjord, Head of Data at Jotun, commented: “Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform seamlessly integrates with Jotun’s existing Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. Their advice was to think platform first, instead of choosing disparate point solutions and then trying to stitch them together.”
Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud + AI Group at Microsoft, added: “Microsoft and Informatica share a deep commitment to accelerating innovation for our customers with trusted solutions across next-generation data analytics and AI workloads. Using Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform, combined with the unified data and analytics platform experience of Microsoft Fabric and the scalability of Microsoft Azure, organizations will have a holistic view of their data estate and dramatically reduce time to value.”