International Business Machines Corp. pursued Informatica Inc. before Salesforce Inc. boughtthe software company for $8 billion last month, according to people familiar with the matter.

Salesforce Inc.’s agreement to buy Informatica Inc. for $8 billion came a year after initial talks collapsed and the ...

"The 5Ps are StreamSets gets most of its new business from IBM and Informatica. "40% to 50% of our customers come from these incumbents which are not relevant in today's world of big data and cloud.

Key rivals to Ascential and IBM are Informatica Corp., SAS Institute Inc. and Oracle Corp. IBM has a partnership with Informatica, which IBM’s information management division head Janet Perna ...

Data integration vendor Informatica Corp. shot verbal arrows at IBM Corp., saying its acquisition of master data management (MDM) vendor Initiate Systems Inc. will only leave customers out alone ...

I cover how technology helps business compete. Which makes it all the more interesting to hear that IBM has quietly dropped the pricing on its SoftLayer infrastructure platform. SoftLayer is ...

Informatica Corp. claims that the features in its upcoming PowerCenter 8 data integration software trump those offered by its top competitor, IBM -- a contention that IBM took issue with last week.

But the folks at IBM, not so politely, disagree. Analysts and users said the truth lies somewhere in the middle, depending on whether an IT organization needs the lighter, all-in-one functionality of ...