Organizations today have been more committed to data-driven as they embark on digital transformations to accelerate time to value, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and deliver trusted insights for business decision-making. To help achieve these goals, companies are modernizing their analytics initiatives by either building new cloud data warehouses and data lakes or by consolidating on-premises data warehouses in the cloud. Companies are also adopting modern cloud technologies that merge data warehouses and data lakes into a single data platform sometimes referred to as a “lakehouse.”

To get started, companies often stand up a cloud data warehouse for a departmental project to pilot the solution and evaluate their cloud options. Some organizations, as they start their journey to the cloud, opt for manual processes such as hand-coding, but this approach quickly overwhelms the IT team, becoming expensive to maintain and difficult to scale.

Informatica® helps organizations avoid these missteps and instead accelerate their cloud data warehouse and data lake initiatives with the industry’s leading independent, modern cloud data management solution—Informatica Intelligent Cloud ServicesSM (IICS). IICS is a modern, microservices-based, metadata-driven, AI-powered, and purpose-built cloud-native data management solution for cloud data warehouses and data lakes, regardless of the cloud platform or technology provider (including Amazon, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks, and Google).

Key Capabilities

Cloud Data Management

 IICS provides comprehensive, AI-powered, integrated cloud-native capabilities for Cloud Data Integration, Cloud Data Quality, and Metadata Management, all built on an intelligent platform.

Data Integration

IICS Cloud Data Integration provides pre-built cloud-native connectivity to virtually any type of enterprise data, whether multi-cloud or on-premises. Cloud Data Integration is designed for scalability and performance and offers critical optimization capabilities, including push-down optimization so you can process the data efficiently

Data Quality

Informatica Cloud Data Quality provides cloud-native capabilities so you can take a holistic approach to quickly profile your data, enabling you to identify, fix, and monitor data quality problems before moving the data into your cloud data warehouse or data lake. Cloud Data Quality helps you transform the data so you can cleanse, standardize, and enrich all data.

Metadata Management

IICS provides a metadata-driven approach for building data pipelines using a visual development environment, with the ability to run on all the major cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform) and the latest processing engines (Spark) without requiring you to re-code your existing pipelines.