Informatica claims that its software will enhance service-oriented architectures (SOA) Expressway with pre-built data transformation plug-ins for integrating and transforming data from legacy and proprietary formats to SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) and other payment networks, thus accelerating integration and messaging of financial industry information across disparate formats and systems.

Informatica B2B Data Transformation extends the capabilities and value of SOA Expressway by enabling it to access and convert data from almost any source and deliver it to target systems in any format including SWIFT, NACHA, BAI, FpML, FIX and Telekurs VDF. The embedded Informatica software supports structured, semi-structured and unstructured including unique support for documents like Word, Excel, PDF and other formats.

Girish Pancha, executive vice president and general manager for data integration at Informatica, said: "The new combined offering is an example of two leaders in their respective fields coming together to meet the need for simplified, yet comprehensive data services that address the growing complexity of data sources and information targets.

"While the current announcement is focused on the financial industry, organizations in any industry can realize incalculable value from unlocking the information tied up in disparate systems, complex files and incompatible message formats."

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