Absolutely, Information and data virtualization are few of the biggest trends in data integration today. Most companies are now taking up the data warehousing approach - centralizing all of the companies' data in one place, for easy access and analysis. They want a single view of the customers or suppliers or even employees. One could move that data and get that information on demand or virtually. So I think that demanding the information this way is an emerging trend in IT. We are about to introduce some new products, by the end of the year. There are many different styles of integration, so this provides our customer with one more style of integration to best suit their application needs.

There are a few different forms of security in terms of data integration; the first capability that any of our customers get is data privacy. What this allows him to do is to mask the true value of the information that is being moved through Informatica. Even the group responsible also doesn't have the privileges to see actual data values, the technology is called data making and it preserves the integrity of the information when it is moved from one place to the other. Another important segment is close to cloud computing, and Informatica has several cloud computing initiatives, which allow customers to keep information secure on the cloud.

We have the ability to use secure sockets, the firewall and the connection. Informatica appoints an agent that sits inside a customer's firewall and initiates a communication with the outside world, and then the information is sent over a secure socket connection. The information is constantly encrypted, even as it's being transferred over, and when companies are over a private network.