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Informatica opens R&D lab in Bangalore
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 13 May 2003, 19:30 IST
BANGALORE: Informatica Corporation, a provider of data integration and business analytics software, on Monday announced the opening of its India Research and Development Lab in Bangalore.
Informatica is headquartered in Redwood City, California. The India R&D Lab will staff up to 60 people in the first year. Gaurav Dhillon, president and CEO of Informatica, said, "This development centre is of strategic importance to our global operations. We will be developing critical components at this facility that further enhance our entire suite of integration and analytics software." He further added, "The much sought after Indian software talent will help us serve our customers even better, expanding the breadth of our capabilities by growing our existing product line with the changing needs of the industry."
The India R&D Lab will focus on research and development across Informatica's entire family of software products for data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence. By expanding its software development operation into India, Informatica will ensure that its customers have access to high-quality software-development resources, no matter where their customers are located.
The new development centre will be headed by Informatica veteran Mohan Sankaran, who will serve as its managing director. Commenting on the opening of the India R&D Lab, Mohan Sankaran said, "Informatica is known for fostering a corporate culture in Silicon Valley that helped propel the company to become the market leader it is today. I and the other Informatica India pioneers look forward to replicating that culture in our India R&D Lab, attracting top-notch talent to build a strong research and development team with the right set of skills and experience.
With this in place, Informatica will be in a stronger position to further enhance its market-leading product offerings." Informatica is also working closely with India's leading system integrators -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro Technologies. Informatica's India R&D Lab will have a team of engineers supporting the efforts of these systems integrators as they leverage Informatica's "location transparent" product architecture to deliver powerful analytic solutions to their customers.
Commenting on TCS's partnership with Informatica, Santosh Mohanty, global head of the Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence practice at TCS, said, "TCS has always kept pace with leading-edge technologies and partnered with technology leaders. We have also used our collaborations and alliances strategically to offer enhanced value to customers globally.
We consider our partnership with Informatica to be a strategic advantage, helping us provide powerful data integration, data warehousing and business intelligence solutions to our customers around the world."
"Informatica's market-leading data integration and business analytics software provides our customers with faster realization of business value, with less risk," said Basab Pradhan, senior vice president of worldwide sales, Infosys. "With this alliance, Infosys can combine its deep domain expertise with Informatica's software products to build repeatable solutions that address specific business problems for the healthcare, financial services and retail industries."
According to Vivek Bhasin, head of Data Warehousing and E-business at Wipro Technologies, "By partnering with the industry's leading provider of analytics software, we are able to deliver powerful business value to key customers around the world. The technological advantage of Informatica products combined with Wipro's expertise in BIDW Consulting and Solutions will help us serve our customers better across the globe."
Informatica offers today's only integrated business analytics suite, including the industry-leading enterprise data integration platform (Informatica PowerCenter), a suite of packaged and domain-specific data warehouses (Informatica Warehouse), the only Internet-based business intelligence solution (Informatica PowerAnalyzer).