Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud.
The cloud migration is part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make up the group into a centralized system for processing and analysis.
Ricoh was previously using Informatica's on-premises PowerCenter environment and has now migrated to Informatica's cloud-native Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IMDC) platform which can reuse the existing PowerCenter assets in the cloud thus saving time and migration costs.
“We have chosen to modernize our current Informatica PowerCenter solution to an AI-powered, cloud-native Informatica’s IDMC because of IDMC’s platform neutrality, multi-cloud support, superior functionality and performance, including the ability to accelerate the conversion of workloads from PowerCenter to IDMC in a matter of minutes while supporting seamless and timeliness of our business operations across the globe,” said Yoshinobu Hamanaka, Ricoh's deputy general manager of process, IT and data management, digital strategy department, corporate IT Management Center.
Taito Kozawa, country manager and president of Informatica Japan, added: “Informatica Japan is pleased to support Ricoh in their data integration project, enabling the customer to drive data transformation at a global scale to achieve operational excellence across their group of companies."
Limited information about Ricoh's previous data center presence has been shared. DCD has contacted the company for further details.
Ricoh is a Japanese multinational company. The company that was founded by the (now defunct) commercial decision of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, aka Riken.
Ricoh, under one of its subsidiaries, provides data center and infrastructure services.
Informatica describes itself as a "leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management." According to the UK Digital Marketplace, Informatica has "global data centers" from which it offers its cloud services. Whether these are fully owned or space leased in colocation facilities is unclear.
