If you follow Data Integration, then you probably already know that Gartner has released its 2014 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. It’s a fairly long document and like most people, you won’t have the time to thoroughly read it. So here’s a bit of advice: If you still have last year’s report, then review it again . . . Not that much has changed. Below is a brief review that summarizes the few changes in the Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools between 2013 and 2014.
If you look at the Magic Quadrant, you can see that Informatica is now positioned at the upper-right most spot in the Magic Quadrant (“Leaders”), by overtaking IBM in “ability to execute”, making them the outright leader in both execution and vision in the data integration space. Informatica is a company striving to create broader solutions and has launched or will be launching more comprehensive offerings with a breadth of functionality and usage in the near future...