It’s been a heady couple of months in the IT infrastructure market, as any independent company that wasn’t tied down seemed to be swept up in a whirlwind of M&A activity.
Independent data integration specialist Informatica, a 4,000-customer company in business since 1993, announced in January that it had acquired Siperian for $130 million.
Arvind Parthasarathi, general manager of MDM and Data Quality at Informatica, said Siperian’s master data management platform complements Informatica’s data quality and data integration applications. Prior to the merger, he says, customers looking for a full master data management deployment could buy only two of the three main pieces from Informatica, and needed a company such as Siperian to supply the platform layer.
The combination vaults Informatica into the top tier of the MDM market, said Altimeter Group analyst Ray Wang.