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Informatica (NYSE: INFA) has unveiled new AI-powered data management innovations within its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). The updates feature enhanced capabilities powered by their CLAIRE AI engine, including CLAIRE Copilot and CLAIRE GPT.

Key innovations include:

• CLAIRE Copilot for data integration (in preview): Enables natural language processing for data pipeline generation
• CLAIRE Copilot for iPaaS (in preview): Facilitates creation of complex app-to-app integration processes
• Unstructured data processing with new chunking and PDF-parsing capabilities
• GenAI Recipes for application integration with major platforms
• CLAIRE GPT integration for Master Data Management (MDM)

McGraw-Hill Education reports significant time savings using CLAIRE Copilot for mapping analysis. The new capabilities will be globally available by April 2025, with some features currently in preview phase.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA) has announced key leadership appointments to strengthen its product development team. Krish Vitaldevara joins as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, bringing extensive experience from NetApp, Microsoft, and Google. At NetApp, he led a 2,000-strong team and successfully implemented AI strategies to modernize their product portfolio. Vitaldevara, who holds over 30 patents, will focus on product strategy, customer engagement, and AI-powered innovations.

Additionally, Bala Kumaresan has been appointed as Executive Vice President & Global Head of Engineering. With experience from F5, Symantec, and Oracle, Kumaresan brings expertise in multi-cloud enterprise data management and holds multiple patents in clustered storage and data management. Both executives will serve on Informatica's Executive Committee, contributing to the company's strategic vision in AI-powered data management.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA) has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Augmented Data Quality Solutions for the 17th time, positioning highest on both the Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision axes. The company's data quality capabilities are integrated into their Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), powered by the CLAIRE® AI engine.

According to Gartner's projections, 70% of organizations will adopt modern data quality solutions by 2027 to support AI adoption and digital initiatives. The research firm also predicts that generative AI will accelerate data and analytics governance programs by 40%.

Brett Roscoe, SVP and GM of Data Governance and Cloud Operations at Informatica, emphasized that data quality and observability have become important for GenAI success in 2025, with their CLAIRE® AI engine automating data quality improvements at petabyte scale.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA) reported mixed Q4 and full-year 2024 results. Cloud Subscription ARR grew 34% year-over-year to $827 million, while Total ARR increased 6% to $1.73 billion. GAAP Total Revenues for FY2024 rose 3% to $1.64 billion.

Q4 2024 showed some challenges with GAAP Total Revenues decreasing 3.8% to $428.3 million, missing guidance by $29.7 million due to lower renewal rates and shorter durations of self-managed subscriptions. The company maintained strong cloud performance with Cloud Subscription Revenue increasing 33% to $186.8 million.

For 2025, Informatica guides Total Revenues of $1.67-1.72 billion and expects to reach $1 billion in Cloud Subscription ARR. The company announced a new $400 million stock repurchase authorization, bringing the total to $800 million.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA) announced that its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform has received certification from the EDM Council for meeting the requirements of their Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) framework's 14 key controls. The certification was granted following an independent assessment by Projective Group.

The IDMC platform is positioned as the only single, connected, AI-powered data management cloud platform offering comprehensive solutions including data integration, catalog, quality, governance, master data management, access management, and marketplace features. This certification aligns with the EDM Council's framework, which establishes global standards for cloud adoption strategy.

The EDM Council, a global association with 25,000 professionals across 360 member organizations, developed the CDMC framework to provide industry guidelines for cloud data management. Informatica, a 14-year member of the EDM Council, contributed to the framework's development alongside major industry players including AWS, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and various financial institutions.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA) has released its CDO Insights 2025 survey, revealing significant trends in Generative AI (GenAI) adoption and investment. 87% of organizations plan to increase GenAI investments in 2025, with US leading at 93%, followed by APJ (86%) and Europe (82%).

Despite widespread adoption plans, 97% of organizations face challenges in demonstrating GenAI's business value. Major obstacles include cybersecurity and privacy compliance (46%), uncertainty over responsible AI use (45%), reliability of results (43%), and data quality trust issues (38%). Notably, 67% of data leaders haven't successfully transitioned even half of their GenAI pilots to production.

The survey indicates 86% of data leaders expect increased data management investment in 2025, with 44% citing data readiness for GenAI as the primary driver. Organizations are focusing on enhancing data governance, with 47% emphasizing data privacy and workforce data maturity improvements.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, has scheduled its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 earnings release for February 13, 2025, after U.S. market close. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time) to discuss the results.

Investors can access the conference call by dialing (833) 470-1428 from the U.S. or (404) 975-4839 internationally using access code 968255. A live webcast and replay of the call, along with earnings presentation materials, will be available on Informatica's investor relations website.

Informatica operates the Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ (IDMC) platform, powered by CLAIRE® AI, serving customers in approximately 100 countries, including more than 80 Fortune 100 companies.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA) announced new developments in its partnership with Databricks, focusing on enhanced integration between Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform and the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The collaboration introduces support for AI Functions on Databricks in Informatica's Native SQL ELT, enabling no-code data pipelines to run natively on Databricks.

Key features include 50+ out-of-the-box transformations and support for 250+ native Databricks SQL functions. The partnership aims to help organizations build enterprise-grade GenAI applications with high-quality, trusted data while maintaining governance policies. Informatica's IDMC platform offers 300-plus data connectors, low-code/no-code data pipelines, and GenAI-driven automation through CLAIRE GPT and CLAIRE Co-pilot. Notably, Informatica was named Databricks' 2024 Data Integration Partner of the Year.

Informatica (NYSE: INFA) has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, positioning highest for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision. This recognition highlights the company's strong market presence in AI-powered cloud data management and governance solutions.

According to Gartner, Leaders demonstrate strong execution capabilities and clear market vision, providing comprehensive solutions for policy management operationalization and automation. The report emphasizes the growing importance of data and analytics governance platforms in helping business and tech leaders design, implement, and monitor governance policies.

Brett Roscoe, SVP and GM of Data Governance and Cloud Operations at Informatica, highlighted the increasing dependency on high-quality, trustworthy data, particularly with the integration of GenAI, and views this recognition as validation of their investments in AI-powered data governance and metadata management.