Salesforce, the San Francisco-based CRM giant, recently announced it has agreed to acquire AI and data management platform provider Informatica for $8 billion. According to a joint statement, Informatica’s data catalog along with its expertise in data integration, governance and metadata management will serve to bolster Salesforce’s significant move into agentic AI. By integrating the two companies’ platforms, Salesforce said it will be better positioned to enable AI agents that operate safely and at scale for its customers.
“Truly autonomous, trustworthy AI agents need the most comprehensive understanding of their data. The combination of Informatica’s advanced catalog and metadata capabilities with our Agentforce platform delivers exactly this,” said Steve Fisher, president and chief technology officer of Salesforce. “Imagine an AI agent that goes beyond simply seeing data points to understand their full context — origin, transformation, quality, and governance. This clarity, from a unified Salesforce and Informatica solution, will allow all types of businesses to automate more complex processes and make more reliable AI-driven decisions.”
The transaction has been approved by the boards of directors of both Salesforce and Informatica and is expected to close early in Salesforce’s fiscal year 2027, subject to regulatory approval and other closing conditions.