 Live from Las Vegas, Nevada, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering Informatica World 2015. Brought to you by Informatica World. Now, here's John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live here in Las Vegas for Informatica World 2015. This is theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out for the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, founder of Silicon Amjohn. Jeff Frick here with the wrap up. We have Debbie O'Brien who's back to help us wrap up. We kicked off the segment and we're going to end it together as a team and a group. We're going to collaborate on our shared learnings, what was magnified for us today. Just, we'll kick it off. What's up? What are you guys seeing? What did you see? Great energy, you know. And I hope you guys saw that your first time at Informatica World. Passionate execs, customers who love us. You know, our loyalty ratings are through the roof. We've got 5,800 customers and our products do as advertised. People really love them and there's such a huge need. So that's really emulated throughout the conference. Jeff, what did you see? Yeah, you know, you can feel that. And we often talk about service down, not to bring it by their shows, but service now and splunk as shows where there's definitely a really intimate vibe, right? People are still in the hallways, they're still sharing information, they're helping each other out. There's a lot of passion for the senior executives. And I thought it was good today and I don't know how much, obviously never on theCUBE before they get a chance to get the senior executives on and really kind of expose the personality a little bit more of the people that are behind the company. And you've got some big personalities here. Yeah, we definitely do. I mean, you can see from Anil to Amit and Marge and Sohaib, people love what they do and they really, they think data's changing the world that it is. It really is a differentiator today. I had a lot of fun. Sohaib was really interesting. Talk about the Oracle story about Larry Ellison, how he was there in 1982 and left just for many, many years with Larry. So that was interesting color around his background. And he was very candid. He shared some candid remarks as a chairman, CEO, super smart guy, great guy, must be a great guy to work for. And then we had customers on. We had the Humana company, there's a Fitbit, gives you social data. We've had Ivan on, who's strategy guy was awesome. And Marge, she was cracking me up but she was so smart, really hit it off with her. I liked her. She's a data geek like us and as a CMO really plugged into what's happening. So just a lot of great guests and a lot of great cultural fit here with theCUBE. Jeff, I thought it was a great day. Yeah, it was a good day. The other thing is, I think the roots of Wikibon obviously go back to storage. And you've heard David Floyer and Dave Vellante talk all the time that at the end of the day, the apps of this, the that, the this, the that, it's got to sit someplace, right? So the storage is always, it's got to be stored somewhere. And really I think it's interesting how Informatica's taken this very similar approach, it's the data. So regardless of whether it's cloud, it's mobile, it's social, it's inside the firewall, outside the firewall. A lot of stuff to move in is dynamic, it's structured, unstructured. At the end of the day at the bottom, sitting on that storage is a data layer. And so really approaching the problem, I think Sue talked about all that stuff's complicated and diverse, but if you look at the problem through the lens of the data, now you've got kind of a unifying structure by which you can address the opportunities, address the problems and start to tackle some of the things that are going on and just do it at the data structure, especially in the context of the security conversation. Yeah, we had Anil Chakravarti on, who's the Chief Product Officer. He was awesome and he's been on the Cube before, so that was great to see him back again. But he went deeper into the real road map stuff, talking about like the security piece. I think what's interesting is that the security problem falls on Informatica's shoulders now when you talk about the perimeterless security. And so the opportunity we kind of teased out of Ivan was the secret sauce of the metadata is interesting because now you have a lever to solve a security problem. That to me was a little interesting data point we acquired today that I thought was something that I will walk away with a little nugget, tuck it in my back pocket and walk away with that little nice piece of nut. To me that was a fun part. And of course we had some great guests, we had Bill Burns on talking about security. He's very dynamic, he's very technical, but he was very candid about getting people excited about security as a discipline. Young kids, whether in high school, college, or looking for a career, you don't have to have that pedigree to get into security. You could be a gamer, you could be creative. That was interesting. Absolutely, yeah. I mean, Bill has been a great addition to the team and to have our first CISO and someone who is really looking at how we hold all of our customer data and how we keep it safe in the cloud, he'll be great and invaluable for us for years. What did you see in the floor? What was in the hallways? We heard a lot of great stuff going on out in the action there. What's going on here? Yeah, wonderful buzz. There's almost 200 breakout sessions. So everything from the very deep, how do I improve my mappings all the way up to, how am I as a business practitioner getting the most out of my data? So people are really excited about our hands on labs, our best practice sessions, and getting really to meet our experts and figure out how to make data a competitive advantage. What was the big buzz that you guys see in the keynote this morning? You need the dashboard, I'm sure you got the social media dashboard, the Twitter stuff going on. What was the big excitement in the keynote? What was people most tweeting about or most active, share of voice wise? I think share of voice security. That is absolutely one that is on everyone's mind. They want to know, with all the breaches, how they can really keep that data safe. And Informatica is taking a whole different roadmap. So we're convincing people of a different paradigm and securing it at the source. So I think everybody wants to know what we're doing differently and how we can help them gain a competitive advantage. And like I said, when Sue was on, I couldn't believe at the end of every single section, he just again reached out to the audience in first person voice and said, this is tremendous opportunity for you now here. And he did that every single time after every single product manager came up or whatever to talk about products and offerings. I thought that was really interesting because A, we know there are huge opportunities for the people that are in the business. B, we need more people to get into the business. There aren't enough people, but really for him to take that approach, I thought was very interesting and really empathetic to the crowd, as opposed to really, I'm up on the lectern and let me tell you about my company and my products. Absolutely. I mean, this is not just an ETL developer crowd. We want people who have cloud skills, master data management skills, security skills, right? It makes them more valuable to their companies and to their customers they serve. So a huge message for us. Yeah, and the thing, the CISO discussion we have throughout the role of the chief data officer. That was interesting because there's a lot of debate on that right now. And I found that very fascinating because I'm watching this really closely with the team at Wikibon because I believe that there's a problem out there that people are burying their head in the sand. That is that organic innovation has to come from experimentation and small bits of fear, as we know in Silicon Valley, you get iterate and always keep moving, which is the core philosophy of Informatica. But in a corporation, fear or failure also could be a stunting the growth of innovation. So command and control policies could be a wet blanket on innovation. That's my belief, I believe that would be true. However, if you balance it right, you ask that question. That's where we're starting to get some insight into news cases. So again, it's super early, but we're looking for that kind of signal of, okay, show the examples of where you can have data governance for protection, liability, or whatnot, that is important, but don't squish the innovation. I mean, that's an area we're still exploring more of. Yeah, and I think that's going to be a key, right? I mean, data is proliferating and we want to be the folks who put it in the hands of the business users or IT users as opposed to keeping it locked up. So we see a big responsibility in making sure that we can do that safely and that the CISOs can sleep at night, you know, or the CFOs, CEOs, whoever it is. So it's a big part of Informatica's story to help drive creativity and innovation. All right, well, we're excited to be here. Thanks for having us. I think for the folks out there watching, theCUBE came here at Informatica 2015, great strategy, really interesting Switzerland strategy going for the horizontal data fabric play, very clear what they're going for, working with others, playing well with an ecosystem, but really it's about increasing that horizontal breadth and enabling people to have creative solutions, create disruption and growth, great strategy. And again, they're going to go private. I know it's not announced yet, but I think that's going to be a good thing from my standpoint, because then you could really start to get creative, get some new products out the door, but certainly a great opportunity. Jeff, any final comments you'd like to share? No, well, just to follow up on that, I mean, the interview we had with Michael Dell, I think, compared to the one that we had with him last year and the one that we had with him the year before, I mean, the enthusiasm and he said, I think unshackled, the team was unshackled now, that they didn't have to really worry about quarterly stuff. They could be a little bit more strategic and long-term. So I think that is an interesting development. Obviously, Tipco followed suit, so it seems to be a trend right now in Silicon Valley and obviously those investors would not have made this investment if they didn't think they're going to get a return and really grow the thing. So it's exciting times. It was a great track record in the pipeline of companies that go private, come back, go public again. We saw that many times and it's part of the model. And I've had CEOs, public companies telling me like, off the record, hey, it's such a grind to do the quarterly, but the worst thing that would bother them, all the shorts, short in the stock and all kinds of games and arbitrage going on, that all the effort was customer satisfaction for the stock price versus focusing on customer satisfaction for the revenue, which is customers. So I think that to me is the big dynamic. That's a bigger story that we'll explain more on. So we have to ask that, what's the bumper sticker? This is John's favorite question. I'm going to steal it from you. Okay, guys. As the cars are driving away, what's the bumper sticker for Informatica World? All things data. All things data, short and sweet. Hashtag Info15. That could even be like one of those little round, little one in the window. You don't even need the bumper. Info15. Hashtag, go to crowdchat.net. If you want to join the conversation, a hashtag Info15, go to Twitter, Info15. 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