Redwood City, Calif. -- Informatica, a Redwood City-based developer of data integration software, said that it will pay $85 million in cash to acquire Identity Systems, a Connecticut-based developer of data search and matching technology, from parent Nokia.The deal is expected to close by the end of May. Identity Systems offers a set of "fuzzy" algorithms that support identity search and matchingacross extremely large volumes of data. The company was founded in 1986 and became an independent division of Nokia in 2006.
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