On Wednesday we announced our latest cloud integration release – Informatica Cloud Spring 2013. It’s a major step forward in terms of breadth and depth for our software as a service (SaaS) solution. Why, you ask?

• Didn’t all of our cloud integration customers get upgraded to the Winter release in November?
• Didn’t we just broaden into cloud-based master data management (MDM)?
• Don’t we have 3-4 releases per year?

Well, yes…but…there are a few aspects to today’s announcement that I think are particularly noteworthy. Here’s a summary.

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