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This is Scott Cooper. I'm here with Gorav Dillon, the founder and CEO of SnapLogic.

And thank you, Gora, for joining us.

Pleasure to be here, Scott.

We're going to cover a bunch of topics and keep this as a very free-ranging discussion.

But where I want to start is I want to start with this thing that we used to call EAI enterprise

application integration. used to call EAI Enterprise Application Integration. And the reason I bring this up is GORV was the founder

many years ago of a company called Informatica. And what would be great, I think, to set the arc

for was if you think about where we were in, you know, 96, 97th, or 2000, around the time that

you guys were coming to life, what was kind of the enterprise computing challenge there? What were the platform issues? If you drill back in that time, you have to look at the macro trends. What was going on was the year

2000 was approaching and people were trying to business process re-engineer and they just

couldn't do it fast enough. So this was a golden age of companies like SAP, companies that no

longer exist now like Sele and PeopleSoft.

And there was a tremendous time for all of them.

But what needed to happen as that was going through is people needed to now bring those

things together.

But it was sort of very much that you were bringing in that product and you were helping

to replace the old mainframe stuff with the new business process

re-engineered ERP stuff.

And when you say people need to bring that stuff in, do you mean data?

So was there information sitting in those applications that people needed to kind of be able

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