Recently, Chase McWhorter, Institutional Real Estate, Inc.’s managing director, Americas, spoke with Haresh Patel, CEO of Mercatus, a State Street Company, about overcoming the challenges of data management and reporting. Earlier this year, Mercatus, an investment data-management platform for the private markets, was acquired by State Street to power Alpha for Private Markets, a front-to-back office solution for both public and private markets. Following is an excerpt of that conversation.