When Informatica Inc. announced a strategic partnership with Oracle Corp. two years ago, the focus was on delivering cloud data management, database integration and governance solutions for enterprise customers. Since then, the two firms have continued to bring Informatica’s artificial intelligence-powered Intelligent Data Management Cloud to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as their customers increasingly build generative AI workloads.

Oracle’s Neil Mendelson and Informatica’s Rik Tamm-Daniels talk with theCUBE about effective data management.

“What should the foundation look like in the cloud for modern analytics?” asked Rik Tamm-Daniels, (pictured, far right), group vice president of technology alliances at Informatica. “We got together and said, ‘instead of giving customers dozens and dozens of choices, and they have to figure out what they’re doing, we’re going to put our heads together and [find] the right solution for customers to get to the end state.’ In the era of generative AI, we’ve been doing exactly the same thing, building out those templates and roadmaps to help customers on that journey.”

Tamm-Daniels spoke with theCUBE Research’s Rob Strechay and Rebecca Knight at Informatica World, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. He was joined by Neil Mendelson (second from right), vice president of big data and advanced analytics at Oracle, as they discussed key elements of the partnership in delivering data management solutions. (* Disclosure below.)

Informatica and Oracle manage metadata using GoldenGate

Part of the collaboration between Informatica and Oracle involves GoldenGate, Oracle’s tool for data integration and online migration. Oracle released an updated version of GoldenGate earlier this month.

“Customers really don’t want these abstract divisions…they just want their data,” Mendelson said. “One of the recent things that we did with Informatica was we opened up our GoldenGate interface. Now we have the ability to manage GoldenGate metadata along with your other metadata from around the world, other vendors and so forth, into Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud.”

Informatica’s IDMC provides Oracle’s customers with access to multiple data sources, along with multicloud and hybrid data management capabilities in a quest to simplify the information retrieval process.

“We’re trying to make it as easy as possible, and that’s why we’re building the capabilities into the same infrastructure where your data lies,” Mendelson said. “If you’ve got this information all over God’s green earth in these separate little niche systems you’re never going to gather it together to the point where you can provide real value. Partnerships with Informatica and others are really important.”

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

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

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