Informatica Celebrates 2016 Partner of the Year Award Winners

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 17, 2017 -- Informatica^®, the world’s No. 1 provider of data management solutions, today announced the winners of the 2016 Informatica Partner of the Year Awards, honoring Informatica partners that have exhibited exceptional performance over the past year as participants in the worldwide Informatica Partner Program. Partners in this program leverage Informatica products and technologies as part of their respective go-to-market strategies to create sustainable value for customers.

Sally Jenkins, executive vice president and CMO, Rodney Foreman, senior vice president of Partner Ecosystem, and Anil Chakravarthy, CEO (far right) at Informatica present the “Outstanding Partner of the Year" award to Mike McDermott, senior vice president of Sales and Business Development at Primitive Logic.

The Informatica Partner Program empowers partners with a comprehensive set of enablement, marketing and sales resources so they can develop and promote their services and solutions in conjunction with Informatica. Partners include leading systems integrators, consultancies, solutions providers, resellers, distributors and technology partners such as ISVs, Cloud providers and OEMs.  

The winners of the 2016 Informatica Partner of the Year Awards are partners that have excelled and consistently exceeded criteria set within the Informatica Partner Program. Winners were selected based on the following criteria: performance, investment in skills, marketing campaign execution, revenue achievement, value add and new customers obtained. The winning organizations were celebrated at a ceremony during Informatica’s 2017 Partner Kickoff in Las Vegas this week.

The top award honored the partner with the most outstanding emerging performance and consistent growth:

• Outstanding Informatica Partner of the Year – Primitive Logic

Additional Partner of the Year Awards honorees include:

• MDM Partner of the Year – Infoverity
• Big Data Partner of the Year – Cognizant
• GSI Partner of the Year – Cognizant
• GSI Cloud Partner of the Year – Deloitte Consulting LLP
• Cloud Partner of the Year – Silverline

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Supporting Quotes:

• “We are extremely proud to be recognized as the Outstanding Informatica Partner of the Year for 2016,” said Jill Reber, chief executive officer, Primitive Logic. “We have worked with Informatica and its industry-leading solutions to solve complex data integration challenges for many mutual clients. We are excited to continue our strong partnership with Informatica in 2017 to empower our clients to thrive in the rapidly changing digital world.”
• “We’re thrilled to have Infoverity acknowledged for the fourth time in six years by Informatica,” said Matt Wienke, partner, Infoverity. “This global recognition of 2016 MDM Partner of the Year showcases our performance in transforming data-driven enterprises, worldwide and across industries. We look forward to our continued collaboration with Informatica to help clients simplify their information to make it more useful.”
• “Being named Informatica’s Big Data Partner of the Year and Global Systems Integrator Partner of the Year acknowledges the strategic partnership and the work we’ve done to help mutual customers derive valuable insight from their data,” said Karthik Krishnamurthy, senior vice president and global head, Analytics and Information Management, Cognizant. “Working with Informatica, we’re helping customers in many industries design, implement and leverage the latest big data technologies to deliver greater levels of insight and analytics. We are excited about continuing the great partnership we have with Informatica to help our mutual customers design and develop an analytics and information management platform to provide deeper insight into their businesses and operations.”
• “Being named Informatica’s Global Systems Integrator Cloud Partner of the Year showcases Deloitte’s commitment to help our clients fully leverage the potential value of cloud analytics and information for competitive advantage,” said Scott Barnes, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “We are committed to working with Informatica and our mutual customers to shape strategy, manage data, improve performance and optimize insights. We look forward to continuing our alliance in 2017.”
• “We are grateful to be recognized as Informatica’s Cloud Partner of the Year,” said Kai Hsiung, chief revenue officer, Silverline. “What started as a simple partnership over five years ago has blossomed into a key strategic alliance, benefiting our mutual customer base. Through Informatica’s offering, Silverline is able to build and deliver robust cloud solutions within heavily regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare. We look forward to continuing the collaboration with Informatica and maximizing our clients’ investments in the cloud.”
• “Our 2016 Partner of the Year honorees all have brilliant records of success in creating new and mutual value with Informatica solutions,” said Rodney Foreman, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem, Informatica. “They are a testament to the overall success of the Partner Program in equipping partners with the tools, expertise and resources they need to excel in helping customers power their businesses with data.”

About Informatica
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