As artificial intelligence continues to call the shots in the enterprise world, gen AI integration has become a burning issue based on the need to augment human capacity.

With Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System being one of the largest pension firms on Canadian soil, Informatica Inc. emerged as a perfect choice in the realization of enterprise-class gen AI applications because the company’s policy is that every app ought to meet strict trusted AI, governance and security guidelines, according to Mo Mirza (pictured, left), director of engineering at OMERS. 

OMERS’s Mo Mirza and Informatica’s Sumeet Kumar Agrawal talk to theCUBE about the importance of gen AI integration.

“From an engineering perspective, there are no shortcuts around this,” Mirza stated. “For us, we’re not the experts in gen AI, but we look at it as an embedded component of a data pipeline or another integration tool in our toolkit or a feature within an application. The partnership we’ve had with Informatica has been fantastic. I mean going and working directly with the product team, providing them the feedback that we need to be able to support the use cases that are coming through.”

Mirza and Sumeet Kumar Agrawal (right), vice president of product management — API, APP integration, AI and analytics — 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 how Informatica helps OMERS in its gen AI integration prospects. (* Disclosure below.)

The need for universal connectivity in gen AI integration

By leveraging Informatica’s Application Integration and application programming interface, OMERS is able to advance its gen AI integration journey. As a result, this objective is realized through universal connectivity, according to Agrawal.

“One of the things we actually announced at Informatica World, is our no-code gen AI app and OMERS is one of our great users for that,” he stated. “We actually provide a universal connectivity, which is super easy for any users to just come in and build any LLM connector. This is a classic example of how integration developers can be gen AI developers.”

For gen AI integration to be successful, the right data governance should be at the forefront for scalability and reliability purposes. This is why OMERs uses Informatica’s toolkit to build a trusted AI platform, Mirza pointed out. 

“We’re looking at the cloud application integration capability,” he said. “The approach we took is that we have a grounding on the integration platform and the integration platform provides us application integration capabilities. The gen AI services that we’re seeing there being offered are really no different than any other SaaS offering that’s out there, and so it fits in nicely when we are doing a solution.”

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

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

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