According to a new press release, Informatica, a leading enterprise cloud data management company, has strengthened its strategic partnerships by launching enhanced Databricks-validated Unity Catalog integrations. These integrations enable no-code data ingestion and transformation pipelines to run natively on Databricks, providing a best-in-class solution for onboarding data from over 300 sources. The joint offering facilitates rapid data preparation with a comprehensive library of out-of-the-box, no-code, and repeatable data transformation capabilities. The Unity Catalog Certification ensures that the data pipelines for Databricks and Databricks Unity Catalog meet industry standards, and the automated personal staging enhancements streamline data management for customers.
Informatica’s Cloud Data Integration (CDI) now supports Unity Catalog validation, allowing customers to directly ingest data from a diverse range of sources into Databricks. The integration includes automated personal staging location (PSL) management, enhancing data separation, performance, data versioning capacity, and cost savings. The company also offers Unity Catalog support for ingest transformations running natively in Databricks via Databricks SQL, ensuring highly secure data integration and transformation pipelines. Additionally, the no-cost edition of CDI now fully supports Unity Catalog, enabling free ingestion from popular data sources and data transformation for specific limits.
Informatica’s PowerCenter Modernization to Databricks program empowers customers to modernize their data estate, providing self-service capabilities and potential cost savings by migrating PowerCenter workloads to the cloud. The company’s latest advancements reinforce its commitment to optimizing data management and integration processes, particularly in collaboration with Databricks, offering customers enhanced capabilities and facilitating the adoption of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for data, analytics, and AI investments.
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