Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Sure. Your first question comes from the line of Thomas Ernst from Deutsche Bank. Please proceed.
Thomas Ernst - Deutsche Bank
Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you.
Sohaib Abbasi - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Tom.
Thomas Ernst - Deutsche Bank
Sohaib, I wanted to ask you about SAP partnership. Last quarter you told us about a significant extension of the partnership, and I guess a couple of points to the question here, do you anticipate that this partnership will continue through the proposed acquisition of Business Objects, even though they have some overlapping capabilities through their acquisition of Acta, the previous acquisition? And secondly, maybe though the way behind it, you made the points here on this call, I think, about the extensive use of Data Quality in the Informatica product, so is that something that's part of the SAP OEM deal? Why might it be secure or why might you suspect that there's some risk there?
Sohaib Abbasi - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
We regard our partnership with SAP as a very healthy strategic partnership. I do not expect our partnership to change in the near term. We have partnered with SAP for a long period of time. A number of our key transactions in the recent quarter were for customers that are migrating over to SAP application, and those customers value our neutrality. In much the same way as we have maintained our partnership with Oracle despite the fact that there may be some overlap, they value our neutrality as does SAP, particularly in the case of migration.
Now, more recently, we expanded our partnership with SAP, where they had an extensive evaluation of all the data integration technologies that were available on the market. That took several quarters, and their conclusion was that Informatica was the technology to embed as part of their MDM offering, as part of their performance management application. I expect that we will continue to have a strong partnership with SAP, as our joint customers value our neutrality.
Data Quality was not part of the OEM agreement with SAP. However, we have a number of joint customers that are using Informatica Data Quality to ensure the quality of data that is stored not just in SAP, but in fact in all of the different applications within the customers' application portfolio. Thank you very much, Tom.
Thomas Ernst - Deutsche Bank
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