Informatica Announces Claire GPT for Data Management
- By Paul Mah
- May 30, 2023
Informatica earlier this month announced Claire GPT, which it touts as the industry’s first generative AI-powered data management tool.
Claire GPT is part of Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC), Informatica’s cloud-based data management platform, and was created to serve as an interface between the users and IDMC to better manage their data assets.
IDMC currently processes 54 trillion monthly transactions for its customers. Informatica says Claire GPT will dramatically simplify and accelerate how enterprises consume, process, manage, and analyze data.
Despite its versatility, an LLM such as ChatGPT are essentially black boxes without any semblance of governance – they make things up and generate errors.
What Informatica did was pair GPT capabilities with its Claire platform to help data teams improve productivity while maintaining governance and control.
Claire is Informatica’s AI and machine learning engine developed in 2017 to unify metadata and automate metadata management, according to a report on TechTarget. It is built into individual data management tools that make up IDMC.
Claire copilot
In addition, Informatica also announced the expansion of its Claire copilot capabilities to automate more data management tasks and processes and to provide greater observability across data.
Users could already automate certain functions such as data governance, data quality, generation of data pipelines, master data management, the discovery of redundant datasets, and customer data organization. New AI copilot capabilities will now include the ability to generate classifications with no manual inputs, infer data lineage, perform multi-column completeness analysis, and automapping.
Stewart Bond, research vice president for Data Intelligence and Integration Software research at IDC noted the move towards an era of intelligent automation, which he says is built on our relationship with data.
“Acceleration of Generative AI is ushering us into this new era, and organizations that do not embrace it will be left behind. Informatica's Claire GPT is bringing generative AI capabilities into the data intelligence and integration solutions domain, helping organizations get more out of new relationships with data,” said Bond.
"We are excited to expand our end-to-end IDMC platform with transformative new capabilities to enable our customers to drive significant automation, comply with critical regulations, and move to the cloud quicker, all while enabling higher levels of security,” said Amit Walia, chief executive officer at Informatica.
Walia says the latest generative AI advancements in Claire GPT will help experienced data users such as engineers, analysts, and scientists to realize up to 80 percent reduction in time spent on key data management tasks.
Claire GPT will be released as a native IDMC service in the second half of 2023.
Paul Mah is the editor of DSAITrends. A former system administrator, programmer, and IT lecturer, he enjoys writing both code and prose. You can reach him at [email protected].
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Paul Mah
Paul Mah is the editor of DSAITrends, where he report on the latest developments in data science and AI. A former system administrator, programmer, and IT lecturer, he enjoys writing both code and prose.