Informatica has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft by adding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud and opening a new Azure-based point of delivery in Switzerland.
The update focuses on data ingestion and synchronisation into Microsoft Fabric. Azure customers can connect more than 300 data sources to Fabric and apply governance controls as data moves into mirrored databases.
Open mirroring
Open Mirroring is a Microsoft Fabric feature that synchronises data between Fabric OneLake and Fabric Data Warehouse. Informatica has added Open Mirroring support to its Cloud Data Integration and Replication services, allowing customers to enable it with a single click while building ingestion pipelines in its cloud platform.
The change targets organisations running analytics and data science workloads in Fabric while sourcing data from multiple business systems. Common sources include operational databases, data warehouses, enterprise applications, and cloud services. Informatica’s connectivity catalogue is positioned as a way to pull that data into Fabric with governance controls.
Informatica also highlighted its data quality, data governance, and master data management services as part of the workflow. These services help define rules, policies, and reference data, and manage identities and key business entities such as customers, products, and suppliers.
The company tied the integration to growing demand for data foundations that support analytics and AI across multiple cloud environments. It positioned Open Mirroring support as a way to simplify mirrored database pipelines and reduce the operational burden of maintaining synchronisation jobs.
“As organizations are accelerating their AI and analytics initiatives, they require trusted context to succeed,” said Krish Vitaldevara, Chief Product Officer at Informatica. “By embedding support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring directly into IDMC, we are helping customers streamline ingestion from more than 300 enterprise sources while helping to ensure data is governed, high quality, and ready for analytics and AI at scale.”
Microsoft framed the update as part of its broader Azure data platform strategy, positioning Fabric as a way to unify data engineering, data integration, data warehousing, and analytics tooling. Open Mirroring is one of several ingestion paths into Fabric, alongside connectors, pipelines, and partner tools.
“Informatica’s support for Microsoft Fabric Open Mirroring enables customers to take advantage of Informatica’s wide range of connectivity and the flexibility of Open Mirroring,” said Arun Ulag, President of Azure Data at Microsoft. “As organizations scale their analytics and AI strategies, the combination of Microsoft Fabric and Informatica’s data management capabilities helps ensure insights and AI models are built on trusted, enterprise-grade data.”
Swiss deployment
Alongside the product integration, Informatica has launched a new Azure-based point of delivery in Switzerland. It described the move as an additional deployment location for its cloud data management services, aimed at customers with data residency and sovereignty requirements.
Many European organisations face restrictions on where personal data and sensitive business records can be stored and processed. These rules can stem from sector regulation, contractual obligations, or national requirements for critical industries. A local cloud deployment option can also reduce the need to route data through other jurisdictions during processing.
The Switzerland pod provides access to Informatica’s cloud data management suite on Azure, including data integration, governance, quality, and master data management services. Some services are also available as an Azure Native Service, reflecting Microsoft’s approach of embedding partner software into the Azure ecosystem with integrated procurement and management.
Customers can purchase Informatica services through Microsoft’s marketplace. Qualifying purchases may count towards Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitments, subject to Microsoft programme terms.
The launch follows a broader industry trend of vendors expanding regional deployment options to meet compliance expectations, including sovereign cloud patterns and ring-fenced environments. For data management providers, geographic coverage is also a competitive factor that can influence procurement decisions when customers standardise platforms for integration, governance, and data operations across business units.
Data governance
The expanded partnership reflects a growing focus on governance as AI adoption broadens. Many organisations now treat data quality and provenance as risk controls for analytics and machine learning. That attention extends beyond model outputs to how data is collected, transformed, and synchronised across platforms.
Fabric’s data estate centres on OneLake, which acts as a common storage layer for workloads. Mirrored databases are one route for bringing operational and warehouse data closer to Fabric services. Informatica positions its tools as a way to manage ingestion and data controls across a broader range of sources, then deliver that data into Fabric for reporting, analysis, and AI development.
Support for Fabric Open Mirroring is generally available with Informatica’s April release. The Azure-based point of delivery in Switzerland has been available since March.