EA, IBM Growth Boosts Niche Data Specialist

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (TheStreet) -- Electronic ArtsERTS, DellDELL and QualcommQCOM have more in common than just a Nasdaq listing. Along with Johnson & JohnsonJNJ and MotorolaMOT, the tech firms are among the 4,000-plus customers of InformaticaINFA. Informatica, a data integration specialist, may not be the biggest name in tech, but after side-stepping the economic downturn by instigating a few creative management techniques, the company is set to continue its impressive growth as tech spending starts to ramp back up. "Informatica was one of the few companies that grew throughout the recession," explained Informatica CEO Sohaib Abbasi in a recent interview with TheStreet. "Our compound annual growth rate over the last five years was 18%." To read the rest, head over to TheStreet.com