Informatica 2025: A Year in Review

Before jumping into an analysis of the Informatica World 2025 announcements, let’s take a look back at the last 12 months. It is impossible to understand what is happening now without a little history lesson; and it turns out that the last year has been a significant year for Informatica. Most importantly, the company is delivering on its promises around its AI-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform, especially leveraging metadata and the CLAIRE AI engine to enhance capabilities, enable Generative AI applications, and prepare for the coming AI agent wave.

Over the past year, Informatica has achieved several key milestones:

Business Performance and Recognition

The company reported strong Cloud Subscription Annualized Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth, exceeding 30 percent year-over-year. It also surpassed 101 trillion processed cloud transactions per month, indicating significant scale. Informatica was recognized as a Leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrant reports, including Data Integration Tools, Data and Analytics Governance Platforms, and Augmented Data Quality Solutions, often positioned furthest for vision and highest for execution.

They also received TSIA Star Awards for leveraging AI in revenue generation and innovations in knowledge management, and were named Databricks Data Integration Partner of the Year and an Oracle Partner Awards winner. The company also earned a J.D. Power Certification for “Outstanding Customer Experience” for the fourth consecutive year.

Platform and Technology Advancements

The IDMC platform was certified by the EDM Council for meeting the requirements of the 14 key controls of the CDMC framework, positioning it as an AI-powered, comprehensive cloud data management solution aligned with these standards. Informatica expanded the availability of IDMC services and deepened integrations with major cloud partners, including Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and Snowflake.

These integrations include Native SQL ELT support for partner platforms, full support for governance layers like Databricks Unity Catalog and Microsoft Fabric, and making services available natively on partner marketplaces. Informatica also continued its modernization program, helping customers migrate from on-premises systems like PowerCenter to the cloud.

AI-Specific Innovations

A major focus has been on embedding GenAI across IDMC. Informatica launched GenAI Blueprints for developing enterprise-grade GenAI applications on leading platforms like AWS, Databricks, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Snowflake. They also introduced new unstructured data processing capabilities and GenAI Recipes for application integration with various AI services. Informatica is investing significantly in R&D, with iLabs in India marking 20 years of driving innovation in AI-powered data management.

A strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University was announced to drive research in GenAI for data management, focusing on AI-Driven Automation, Metadata-Driven Agentic AI, and Optimized AI Training & Inference.

Informatica also continued to highlight metadata as foundational to their AI and data management advancements. As a lifelong fan of metadata, I agree with their perspective that it is the “lifeblood” that provides context, relationships, and meaning; as well as the guidelines necessary to turn raw data into a usable asset.

The CLAIRE AI engine continued to be central to Informatica’s IDMC platform, driving intelligent automation and intelligent integration of all of the separate components of IDMC. CLAIRE, underpinned by a rich collection of metadata, enabled key AI capabilities like copilots, GPT, and the way forward to AI agents.

For Informatica, the foundation for AI Agents was well set and their research with Carnegie Mellon University paved the way for metadata-driven Agentic AI, especially addressing the need for multi-agent orchestration.

Ultimately, the combination of the unified data engineering platform with rich metadata and the power of the CLAIRE AI engine kept Informatica in a leadership position. Customers like Alain Afflelou, Fujifilm, Genesis Energy, Helia, Lion, SUBARU, Yamaha, Lumen, and Ricoh all provided case studies to validate the capabilities of IDMC, and especially the use of AI to streamline data engineering and to provide a trustworthy foundation of the enterprise use of other AI applications and agents.