Informatica has entered into a partnership with Emirates Flight Catering (EKFC), one of the world’s largest airline catering providers, to deploy its cloud‑based Multidomain Master Data Management (MDM) SaaS platform across EKFC’s global supply chain.
EKFC produces more than 225,000 meals a day for over 100 airline customers and works with a network of more than 300 suppliers. The company has faced data fragmentation across its production, procurement, and inventory systems, which has limited real‑time visibility and slowed procurement cycles. The new MDM solution will unify product, supplier, and customer data, providing a single source of truth and enabling AI‑driven governance workflows that automate data quality checks and compliance monitoring.
The platform includes a supplier self‑service portal that allows vendors to update product information, pricing, and compliance status directly, reducing manual data entry and accelerating onboarding. AI‑powered data governance will flag anomalies, predict inventory shortages, and support sustainability reporting by tracking carbon‑intensity metrics for each meal. By streamlining data flows, EKFC expects to cut procurement cycle times by up to 20 % and improve inventory accuracy, which in turn should lower waste and support its sustainability targets.
For Informatica, the deal underscores the scalability of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) in a high‑volume, multi‑vendor environment. The company’s Q3 2025 results showed a 29.5 % year‑over‑year rise in Cloud Subscription ARR to $969 million and a return to profitability with a $4 million net income, after a $13.99 million loss in Q3 2024. The partnership aligns with Informatica’s strategy to expand cloud‑only subscriptions and AI capabilities, and it positions the firm to capture additional revenue from ongoing integration, analytics, and AI services as EKFC grows its operations. The deal also comes as Informatica is in the final stages of its acquisition by Salesforce, a transaction that is expected to accelerate the company’s cloud footprint and broaden its enterprise customer base.
The partnership reflects a broader industry trend in which airlines and hospitality operators are investing in cloud‑native data platforms to enable real‑time analytics, AI‑driven decision making, and sustainability reporting. Competitors such as Snowflake, Talend, and Microsoft Azure Data Factory are also targeting the aviation and hospitality sectors, but Informatica’s focus on data governance and AI‑enhanced MDM gives it a differentiated value proposition in this high‑volume, multi‑vendor market.
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