Salesforce , the world’s #1 AI CRM, announced it has completed its acquisition of Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management. The close of the acquisition brings Informatica’s rich data catalog, integration, governance, quality and privacy, metadata management, and Master Data Management (MDM) services to the Salesforce platform, establishing a unified and comprehensive data foundation for agentic AI — and enabling AI agents to operate safely, responsibly, and at scale across the modern enterprise.

“You have to get your data right to get your AI right,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce. “Data and context is the true fuel of Agentforce, and without clean, connected, trusted data there is no intelligence – only hallucination. Informatica is the trusted platform that turns fragmented enterprise data into context, so every agent can reason, act, and deliver outcomes with precision. When companies get their data right, they get their AI right, and Agentforce becomes unstoppable.”

“With Informatica, we will deliver a governed and complete data platform that powers more intelligent, contextual, and autonomous experiences across Agentforce 360 – the trusted system connecting humans and AI agents in the enterprise,” said Steve Fisher, President and Chief Product Officer, Salesforce.

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Strengthening the Entire Agentforce 360

The acquisition significantly enhances Salesforce’s platform by:

• Achieving Data Clarity with Data 360: Informatica will strengthen Data 360, ensuring data from across organizations is not only unified, but clear, trusted, and actionable.
• Delivering Complete Integration with MuleSoft: MuleSoft, a leader in application integration and API management, combined with Informatica’s advanced data integration and governance capabilities will create a comprehensive, end-to-end integration offering that empowers customers to unlock all enterprise data and systems for the AI era.
• Elevating Agentforce 360 Platform: Informatica and Salesforce together will provide a critical data foundation for autonomous AI agents to interpret and act on trusted data.
• Context-Rich Insights for Tableau: Tableau users will benefit from richer, context-driven insights thanks to a more accessible and better-understood data landscape.

Additionally, the acquisition will build on Salesforce’s unique metadata advantage — the objects, fields, and relationships that define the Salesforce ecosystem, which has helped Agentforce deliver accurate, context-aware AI responses. Informatica provides an even richer, enterprise-wide view of metadata, pulling in context and lineage across every system, not just Salesforce. This wider, unified metadata foundation will deliver even more accurate, explainable, and trusted AI responses — helping customers scale AI with confidence across every corner of their business.

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Informatica to Scale and Continue Its Mission as a Trusted Leader in Data Management as Part of Salesforce

As part of Salesforce, Informatica will continue its mission to help organizations connect, manage, and unify their AI-ready data. Informatica will also continue to support and integrate its AI-powered data management solution with its broad ecosystem of partners. Salesforce will rapidly integrate Informatica’s technology stack — including data integration, quality, governance, and unified metadata for Agentforce, and a single data pipeline with MDM on Data 360 — seamlessly embedding this system of understanding and its benefits into the Salesforce ecosystem.

“Joining forces with Salesforce enables us to drastically accelerate our mission as the ‘Switzerland’ of AI-powered data management to help organizations unlock the full value of their data and AI,” said Amit Walia, CEO of Informatica. “By integrating Informatica’s data management capabilities and ecosystem integrations directly into the Agentforce 360 platform, businesses around the world can drive innovation, efficiency and growth by leveraging a single vendor that unites applications, trusted data and AI agents.”

Financial Implications and Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results Conference Call

As detailed during its Investor Day at Dreamforce, Salesforce expects to achieve accretion on a non-GAAP operating margin and non-GAAP earnings per share basis within 12 months – a full year sooner than originally committed at deal announcement, and aligned to the company’s responsible M&A framework.

The company will host its Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results Conference Call on December 3, 2025 after market close, during which management will discuss financial results as well as the transaction and its impact on fiscal 2026 financial guidance.