Informatica Corp. continues to find new ways to move technology forward. And according to John Myers, managing research director for Enterprise Management Associates, Inc., Informatica’s decision to go private — as evidenced by its decision to accept a $5.3 billion offer to be acquired by private equity firm Permira and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board — builds on its commitment of fostering innovation.

“Going private allows a public company like Informatica more freedom without having to meet quarterly revenue targets,” he said. “It might enable them to do some things that they couldn’t have as a quarterly reporting company.”

Eliminating the ‘weeds of implementation’

During his interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production team, during Informatica World 2015, Myers also complimented Informatica’s business model.

“I like the concept of taking something that might have been historically a ‘plumbing’ business, a more utility base, raising it up a level to integrate more between business and IT,” he said. “They take analytical concepts that we’ve seen for some time and apply them to domains of data management.”

Myers also sees the customer advantage: “When customers are trying to do security on all these systems and get into different data platforms, at the individual point level, you’ll ‘go blind on paperwork.’ But when you raise it up a level, customers and IT departments can move up as opposed to getting caught in the weeds of implementation.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Informatica World 2015.

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