During one social event at a data conference in San Jose, California, last month, Murthy Mathiprakasam (pictured) pulled up a chair and began to chat with the information technology executive of a large insurance company, an Informatica Corp. customer. The IT executive was blunt: He was preparing to remove an entire portfolio of cloud technologies and replace them with new ones. But he also reassured Mathiprakasam that Informatica’s platform would remain a key part of the infrastructure.

“Today, it’s basically just a series of three-month trials of different technologies,” said Mathiprakasam, Informatica’s director of product marketing. “Informatica was the only technology that was being sustained. The platform has actually enabled them to make those changes.”

Mathiprakasam spoke with Peter Burris (@plburris) and Lisa Martin (@LuccaZara), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the BigData SV event in San Jose, California. They discussed Informatica’s recent announcements regarding application programming interface integration and the rapidly changing nature of enterprise cloud solutions. (* Disclosure below.)

New API integrations for cloud

Informatica’s platform approach has allowed the company to support data services and process ingestion in the cloud. The firm recently enhanced its cloud data management offering by announcing the launch of reimagined API and application integration capabilities for its Intelligent Cloud Services solution.

Only two years ago, Informatica wasn’t seeing many of its customers demanding cloud services for data management, according to Mathiprakasam. That situation has changed.

“Now close to 50 percent of our big data business is people deploying off-premise,” Mathiprakasam said. “The platform approach is sort of like your insurance policy, because it enables you to design for today’s requirements but then very quickly migrate or modify for new requirements.”

As today’s conversations with chief data officers and other technology executives quickly turn to the implementation of enterprise-scale projects such as security and governance, Informatica has adapted its offerings to meet next-generation multicloud integration requirements.

“It goes back to flexibility; that’s the key word on the minds of chief data officers,” Mathiprakasam explained. “Not everybody knows exactly what their cloud strategy is, and it’s changing extremely rapidly.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the BigData SV event. (* Disclosure: Informatica Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Informatica nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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