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Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: I don't think we'd get to 97 trillion. That's a big number. What happened? How are the other 3 trillion -- what went missing?
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 / 9:25PM, INFA.N - Informatica Inc at Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Technology
Conference
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: That's true. That's true. So talk about your bold, audacious goals for the company five years out.
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: That's great. So if you were to talk to the financial cloud five years out, I know you don't need to give guidance, but what are the
other non-technological ways in which you would define success for Informatica? Like to be top something, top four, top five in
mid-cap? Is there anything around that?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: I thought you were going to say we're going to be $3 billion in cloud.
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: Mike, you've been have been with Informatica a little over two years.
Is my mic working? It is working.
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: My voice is natural. It's okay. Your key conclusions and learnings about this company in the last two years and what are your aspirations
near to midterm from a financial perspective?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: That's my job. I mean --
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: It's a good point. It's a good point that once we hit that magical combination of sustainable, durable growth rate, you don't try to
knock it out of the ballpark. It's -- don't take risks to be a hero. Just be predictable, good growth, good margins, means higher multiple.
Definitely, the certain equivalent of that outcome is not lost on it. So before I turn it over to Matt, Matt, you went to the Informatica
User Conference this time, right?
So Matt is this guy who was hard to get excited. Matt, how was the music?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: So on that note, I'll turn it over to you. Let's stick with that thread then. And I don't want to butcher this, but you have a two-pronged
approach to Gen AI; Informatica for Gen AI, and Gen AI from Informatica. So maybe talk a little bit about both of those opportunities,
if you could?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: So what are those use cases? What kind of applications are your customers building, using Informatica and Gen AI?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: You made reference to DataBricks earlier, and maybe that's a good bridge into Apache, Iceberg, and OpenTable file formats. There's
been a lot of focus on this recently on how this could reshape the data layer. So how do you see adoption kind of impacting both
Informatica's core business and kind of the broader data stack, if you will?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: Questions from you guys? If you have a question, just raise your hand.
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: I've been asking every 1 of the 12 or so CEOs that we had a chance to interview in the last day, 1.5 days, and that is what are you
doing with Gen AI internally? Have you seen any benefits from internal deployments of Gen AI within Informatica?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: And any providers that come to mind on which technologies your folks are internally leveraging?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: Everybody?
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: So Windows, Copilot, Office Copilot, nothing -- one thing is --
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: No Silver bullet. On that note, thank you once again. It's always a very energetic discussion. I really enjoy hanging on.
Question: Kasthuri Rangan - Goldman Sachs Group Inc - Analyst
: I think you did. Yes.
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