Informatica vs Software AG

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Informatica
Based on 85 reviews.
Software AG
Based on 66 reviews.
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Overview
Informatica Corporation is a software development company founded in 1993. It is headquartered in Redwood City, California. In 2006, Informatica launched its Informatica Cloud business. In 2010, the Informatica Marketplace was launched offering a data integration eco-system for Partners, Customers, Developers and Informatica to share and leverage data integration solutions. On April 7, 2015, Permira and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced that a company controlled by the Permira funds and CPPIB has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Informatica for approximately US$5.3 billion.Founded in 1969, Software AG is an enterprise software company with over 10,000 enterprise customers in over 70 countries. The company is the second largest software vendor in Germany, the seventh largest in Europe. Software AG is traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol SOW and part of the technology index TecDAX. The company was founded in 1969 by a group of six young employees at the consulting firm AIV. ADABAS was launched in 1971 as a high performance transactional database management system. In 1979 Natural, a 4GL application development language, was launched. The company continued to open offices and subsidiaries in North America, Japan, UK, France, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and Saudi Arabia. By 1987 Software AG had around 500 employees, 12 subsidiaries in Europe and offices in more than 50 countries. In 1999 Software AG was listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange and soon after the company released Tamino Information Server and Tamino XML Server.
Sample Customers
Informatica PowerCenter: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, LexisNexis, Rabobank
Informatica PowerExchange: ACH Food, BNSF Railway Company, Illinois State University
Informatica Data Integration Hub: Humana, Rabobank, State of Washington
Informatica Business Process Manager: The Travel Company, Carbonite
Informatica Cloud Application Integration: Carbonite, Education Elements
Informatica Cloud Data Integration: Chicago Cubs, Telegraph Media Group
Informatica Data Archive: Clopay
Informatica Data Subset: Lowe's
Informatica MDM: UPMC, Citrix
Informatica PIM: Puma, Saint Gobain, Unilever
Informatica Relate 360: UPMC, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Informatica Big Data Streaming: Jewelry TV
Informatica Cloud B2B Gateway: Carbonite
webMethods Trading Networks: Gist Limited, U.S. Bank, Staples
Software AG Apama: Okasan Online Securities
ARIS BPM: Fujitsu, Coca Cola, ING, Credit Suisse, Electrolux
ARIS Cloud: Essent, Vodafone Iceland, Coca-Cola, Fraport
Software AG webMethods OneData: KV Hessen, Outerwall
Terracotta: Kiabi, Wipro Technologies, CERN, Essent, Nielsen
Software AG webMethods Integration Cloud: Autosen, A1 Digital, Cintas
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Insurance Company
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Software R&D Company
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Comms Service Provider
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Financial Services Firm
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Media Company
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