2.2.0.25falsefalse2101100 - Disclosure - Organization and Businesstruefalsefalse1falsefalseUSDfalsefalse1/1/2010 - 12/31/2010 USD ($) $D2010Q4YTDhttp://www.sec.gov/CIK0001080099duration2010-01-01T00:00:002010-12-31T00:00:00usdStandardhttp://www.xbrl.org/2003/iso4217USDiso42170sharesStandardhttp://www.xbrl.org/2003/instancesharesxbrli0USDUSD$2true0infa_NotesToFinancialStatementsAbstractinfafalsenaduration-- None. No documentation exists for this element. --falsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalse1falsefalsefalse00falsefalsefalsefalsefalseOtherxbrli:stringItemTypestring-- None. No documentation exists for this element. --falsefalseNotes to Financial Statements [Abstract]3false0us-gaap_NatureOfOperationsus-gaaptruenadurationNo definition available.falsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalsefalseterselabel1falsefalsefalse00<div style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;"><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:12px;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;font-weight:bold;">Organization and Business</font></div><div style="line-height:120%;padding-bottom:12px;text-align:justify;text-indent:24px;font-size:10pt;"><font style="font-family:inherit;font-size:10pt;">Informatica Corporation ("Informatica" or the "Company") was incorporated in California in February 1993 and reincorporated in Delaware in April 1999. The Company is the leading independent provider of enterprise data integration and data quality software and services. The Company's mission is to enable organizations to gain a competitive advantage from all their information assets to drive their top business imperatives and information technology initiatives. The Company's software solutions include a comprehensive set of technologies to enable a wide variety of complex enterprise-wide data integration initiatives, including: enterprise data integration, data quality, master data management, B2B data exchange, application information lifecycle management, complex event processing, ultra messaging, and cloud data integration. </font></div></div>Organization and BusinessInformatica Corporation ("Informatica" or the "Company") was incorporated in California in February 1993 and reincorporated infalsefalsefalsefalsefalseOtherus-types:textBlockItemTypestringDescribes the nature of an entity's business, the major products or services it sells or provides and its principal markets, including the locations of those markets. If the entity operates in more than one business, the disclosure also indicates the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination (for example, assets, revenues, or earnings). Disclosures about the nature of operations need not be quantified; relative importance could be conveyed by use of terms such as "predominately", "about equally", or "major and other". This element is also referred to as "Business Description".Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher AICPA -Name Statement of Position (SOP) -Number 94-6 -Paragraph 10 falsefalseOrganization and Business12Organization and BusinessUnKnownUnKnownUnKnownUnKnownfalsetrue