Microsoft Corp. and Informatica Inc. have built a robust partnership rooted in co-innovation and delivering exceptional value.

Their latest collaboration, Azure Native ISV Services, exemplifies this synergy by enabling Azure users to seamlessly access Informatica’s powerful data management tools directly from their Azure consoles.

Microsoft’s Alvaro Celis and Informatica’s Gopi Sankaran talk with theCUBE about the Microsoft-Informatica partnership.

“You find the whole suite — Informatica Data Management Cloud,” said Alvaro Celis (pictured, middle), vice president of global ISV commercial solutions at Microsoft. “You can have a serverless offering that will allow you to have tons of value. It just reflects how much we co-innovate in service of the customer and try to have that seamless experience where you can be in the Azure environment and still access Informatica value-added service.”

Celis and Gopi Sankaran (pictured), VP of strategic cloud ecosystems at Informatica, spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rebecca Knight and Rob Strechay at Informatica World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the Microsoft-Informatica partnership, how the partnership benefits its clients and how Informatica integrates with Azure and Microsoft Fabric. (* Disclosure below.)

Preparing for the next generation of data management

The partnership brings more than just Microsoft Azure integration. Beyond supporting the major cloud provider, Informatica brings critical data management capabilities to the analytics platform Microsoft Fabric, according to Sankaran.

“There is a team at Microsoft who develop for Informatica, enabling certain sockets, which helps our joint customers to use services like advanced serverless for data integration, for data quality, all this stuff,” he said. “What does it do? It helps … the customer to have that seamless experience.”

Informatica’s ultimate goal is to develop the data management for generative AI, using technologies such as app integration and metadata intelligence in the context of Azure’s model so it’s able to support a wide variety of large language models.

Informatica aims to enhance data management for generative AI by leveraging technologies such as app integration and metadata intelligence within the Azure framework, enabling support for a wide variety of large language models.

“How do you align to data access policies? All those level of details on the data, that is Informatica’s area,” Sankaran said. “However, going and developing it, whether it is against an OpenAI LLM, and how do you go and train that model and use that model to get all that information? That’s where Azure fits in. It is the best complementary partnership, relationship you can find in the market anywhere, and it’s a great time for customers to avail all these opportunities now.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of Informatica World:

(* Disclosure: Informatica Inc. and Microsoft Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Informatica nor Microsoft nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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