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What Do Informatica, Similarity Systems and SAP Have in Common?

Other members of the Business Intelligence Network have already commented on Informatica's proposed acquisition of Similarity Systems and so I won't replicate their views here. This acquisition does, however, demonstrate the move by the original ETL vendors toward a complete enterprise-wide data integration platform that supports ETL, EII, integration with EAI technology, metadata management, and data profiling and data quality tools. The Similarity acquisition fills out the data profiling and data quality component of this platform for Informatica.

The direction by the main data integration vendors toward a complete enterprise data integration platform will make it difficult for third-party vendors that focus on one aspect of the technology stack to survive, and so we can expect more product consolidation in this segment of the marketplace.

Posted by Colin White on Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |

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