Don Tirsell leads the Technical Alliances team responsible for partner enablement, technical sales and evangelism to Informatica’s Partner Ecosystem, including Cloud, BPO, ISV, SI, and Technology partners. Tirsell has been with Informatica over eleven years and has over 24 years of enterprise software experience in development, product management and marketing at leading companies including Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Kana Software.
By now you’ve probably heard the news on Informatica 9.1 , our latest release that debuts new capabilities for integrating with and managing “Big Data.” I’ve worked with many of the Informatica partners expressing support (see Informatica 9.1 and Partners) for this release and see a wide variety of new potential use cases for joint [...]
2009 was a banner year for Informatica’s OEM business. We grew the number of ISVs (Software Companies), BPOs (Business Process Outsourcers) and SaaS/Cloud providers who use the Informatica platform as part of/with their offerings by 24 new partners. What was really interesting throughout 2009 was the variety of use cases across the spectrum of new [...]
February 18, 2010 – 12:20 pm
Informatica’s annual sales kickoff took place in mid-January in Las Vegas. In attendance were members of over 39 partner companies, a 50% increase from 2008. I’d like to thank the attending partners, their presence and enthusiasm helped make this the most successful kickoff in Informatica history! We also recognized our top alliances partners with our [...]
January 19, 2010 – 12:54 am
Informatica 9 debuted last November to tremendous partner support, especially around the new Data Quality capabilities and their applicability to partner solutions. This release has been in the hands of partners in early access/beta or in a generally available version for six months now. In 2010, we are anticipating SI practices to transition to Informatica [...]
November 17, 2009 – 1:57 pm
Last Tuesday’s virtual launch of Informatica 9 was the most widely attended and covered Informatica event ever due in large part to our partners’ overwhelming support. Informatica’s partners proved themselves to be truly an extension of our own organization. Not only did we have record partner participation in the form of validating quotes for the [...]
