AI-Driven Data Management with Informatica Senior Vice President Jitesh Ghai

09/20/20 • 33 min

Welcome back to How I Launched This, A SaaS Story. This week Carter Morgan (@carterthecomic) hosts a conversation with Jitesh Ghai. Jitesh is Senior Vice President of Informatica and goes in-depth about the advanced data management software they've created for use with Google Cloud. As key players in the space, Informatica has excelled in facilitating customer and cloud provider relationships while also building specialized data migration and management tools for enterprise companies taking advantage of the cloud.

Jitesh explains how his passion for data and life philosophy of making plans while also being flexible led him to Informatica. Because data is so important to supporting fact-driven company decisions, Informatica's offerings like data integration, indexing, management, privacy services, and more are vital for most modern-day companies. Their auto-indexing, tagging, and advanced, rich metadata provide companies with a thorough understanding of not only what data they have but where it is. Informatica provides the Business 360 experience for enterprise clients with AI-driven data software that can not only collect and index but analyze customer buying behavior, streamline logistical systems, and more.

Later, we talk with Jitesh about Informatica's journey to market and evolution to becoming a true cloud-first, cloud-native solution. Jitesh describes the company's awareness of data fragmentation problems between on-prem and the cloud and their desire to create a flexible cloud data solution. He details real-world examples of companies benefiting from the software, and makes predictions for the future of data and the positive effects it will continue to have on decision making.

Episode Links:
Informatica
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
CLAIRE engine
Equinix
Sunrun
BigQuery

Episode Links:
Informatica
Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services
CLAIRE engine
Equinix
Sunrun
BigQuery

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Episode Links:
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How I Launched This: A SaaS Story - AI-Driven Data Management with Informatica Senior Vice President Jitesh Ghai

Transcript

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Jitesh Ghai [00:00:06] Organizations want to be more data-driven. They want to innovate. To accomplish that, they need to be more agile, more flexible, more resilient, more adaptive. These are all foundationally the value propositions of cloud.
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Carter Morgan [00:00:24] Welcome to "How I Launched this: A SaaS Story" from Google Cloud, a podcast about the CXOs and founders of SaaS companies and some of the most innovative players in the g