Expanding the partnership with Informatica is in line with Google’s strategy of driving business to its cloud-based enterprise services, led by data and AI tools. Photo: Michael Short/Bloomberg News By Angus Loten May 21, 2019 12:16 p.m. ET Google Cloud, Alphabet Inc.’s cloud computing unit, is joining forces with data-management company Informatica LLC to help businesses draw more value from their data—part of a continuing push by Google into the enterprise information-technology market.
Though the tools are already available in Google Cloud, gathering and prepping data to feed into them “has been a bottleneck” for many companies, Informatica Chief Executive Anil Chakravarthy told CIO Journal. Since then, the company has sharpened its focus on data-integration software, which allows businesses to extract and process information stored in various programs running on premises or in the cloud— a serviceMr. Chakravarthy describes as “data plumbing.” It also has shifted its business model from traditional software sales to recurring cloud-service subscriptions.
“What we hear a lot is customers talking about ‘Can you help us clean up our data as we move to cloud or use AI tools?” Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s chief executive, told CIO Journal. Francis Lobo, chief technology and product officer at Mr. Cooper, a real-estate lending firm with more than three million customers, said data in the mortgage industry is typically siloed across different teams, making it difficult to use advanced analytics or AI.
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