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Business Wire
14-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Informatica Enters into New Strategic Agreement with Microsoft to Accelerate Customer Adoption
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, today announced a strategic agreement with Microsoft. This milestone extends the long-standing collaboration between the two companies, continuing innovation and customer adoption on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The announcements were made at Informatica World, the company's annual data management and AI conference held in Las Vegas. Informatica and Microsoft are working closely to deliver unified, AI-powered solutions that combine Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ platform with key Microsoft services, including Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Azure. Informatica's cloud data management platform is available as a SaaS offering on Azure and via Azure Marketplace, enabling customers to build a trusted, secure and innovative data foundation to power their analytics and AI-driven business transformations. 'As enterprises increasingly prioritize trusted data to fuel responsible AI, agents and next-generation analytics, Informatica and Microsoft are jointly committed to empowering our customers as they continue on their cloud and AI transformation journey,' said Amit Walia, CEO at Informatica. 'This strategic agreement reflects our shared vision to drive customer success through co-innovation, go-to-market alignment and deep-field collaboration, helping organizations securely and efficiently scale AI across their data estate.' Building on years of successful collaboration—including Informatica's integration with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Cosmos DB —this agreement represents another milestone in a multi-decade collaboration between Informatica and Microsoft. Recent innovations where Informatica has closely worked with Microsoft include: Informatica's cloud data management platform as an Azure Native Service: Streamlining the customer experience with seamless Azure integrations. Design partner for Microsoft Fabric providing strong connectivity, data integration and intelligent scanning capabilities. GenAI blueprint for Azure OpenAI Service: Accelerating development and deployment of enterprise-grade GenAI and copilot experiences using Informatica's Cloud Data Management Platform and Azure OpenAI Service. Jotun is one of the world's leading paint and coating manufacturers with a presence in over 100 countries. Gro Kamfjord, Head of Data at Jotun, explains their decision to partner with Informatica, stating: 'Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform seamlessly integrates with Jotun's existing Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric. Their advice was to think platform first, instead of choosing disparate point solutions and then trying to stitch them together." 'Microsoft and Informatica share a deep commitment to accelerating innovation for our customers with trusted solutions across next-generation data analytics and AI workloads,' said Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud + AI Group, Microsoft. 'Using Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud platform, combined with the unified data and analytics platform experience of Microsoft Fabric and scale of Microsoft Azure, organizations will have a holistic view of their data estate and dramatically reduce time to value.' As a testament to the strength of this collaboration, global enterprises like KPMG, OMERS, Paycor, and Jotun rely on Informatica's cloud platform on Azure to power their mission-critical data strategies. The announcement of this agreement further cements Informatica's commitment to joint go-to-market with Microsoft, addressing the evolving data management needs of joint customers in the era of AI. For more information, visit here. About Informatica Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, only Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica's platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access governed data, simplify operations and scale with confidence. Trusted by 5,000+ customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation.
Times of Oman
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Times of Oman
Jotun's 2025 Global Colour Collection highlights the impact of soft tones
Muscat: Often, the smallest things in our lives have the greatest impact. It could be the sunlight on the side of a building, a kind word from a stranger, the feel of a pebble on the beach—or the colour of the room we wake up in every day. These are the simple details in everyday life—those little things that seem to shape our days. The colours around us affect our emotions—even our energy levels—but they don't have to be bold or dramatic to make a difference. In the recently launched 2025 Global Colour Collection called NUANCES, Jotun celebrates the subtle details and gradations of color that do so much to set the atmosphere and create a sense of home. 'Bold colours might have a more obvious visual impact, but even a slight shift in hue can change the mood,' says Rana Khadra, Colour & Creative Manager at Jotun Middle East, India, and Africa. 'We respond to the gradations and tones we encounter each day on both conscious and subconscious levels. In our homes and on our walls, it's often those subtle differences that make all the difference.' Launched in October 2024, Jotun's NUANCES collection features 30 colours across six families—blue, gray, peach, yellow, beige, and green—each with four variations of different intensities, all sharing a single base hue. The collection is designed as both a guide and an inspiration, helping people find the perfect subtle differences to create the mood they want. Based on proven colour theory principles, the Global Colour Collection offers both practical and inspirational guidance on how to use layering, monochromatic schemes, and varying intensities to achieve depth and impact. The collection is showcased through beautiful interior photography that brings all 30 colours to life in a home setting. It also features large-scale artwork created specifically for this launch by French-born artist Agathe Bergeot, incorporating many of the shades from Jotun's 2025 Color Collection. The NUANCES Colour Collection was launched in October 2024 with a series of exhibitions held across Jotun's global markets: Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and China. Each exhibition will feature an inspiring, eye-catching installation, showcasing large-scale three-dimensional forms—columns, drapes, and arches—embodying the NUANCES colour groups. These sculptural, inviting spaces subtly hint at different areas within a home, broken down into abstract shapes that encourage visitors to step inside, explore Jotun's world of colors, and appreciate the everyday beauty of simple details.
