Informatica is an American

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development company founded in 1993. It is headquartered in

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. Its core products include Enterprise Cloud Data Management and Data Integration. It was co-founded by Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney. Amit Walia is the company's CEO.

History

On 29 April 1999, its

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on the

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stock exchange listed its shares under the stock symbol INFA. On 7 April 2015,

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announced that a company controlled by the Permira funds and CPPIB would acquire Informatica for approximately US$5.3 billion. On 6 August 2015, the acquisition was completed and

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