Informatica data management for agentic AI will be integrated into Salesforce CRM, Tableau, MuleSoft, and more.

Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research, noted that Salesforce is buying Informatica at a lower price than it was originally willing to pay. “Informatica did a good job when they went private in improving its margin profile — so Salesforce will be able to make this acquisition accretive in the near future,” he said.

Salesforce already possesses an extraordinary amount of data on the world’s biggest companies. The software giant’s acquisition of data management and analytics firm Informatica, however, signals its AI-agent platform,

Salesforce Inc. has agreed to acquire Informatica Inc. for about $8 billion, barely a year after an earlier effort fell through.

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Salesforce is nearing an agreement to acquire Informatica in a deal valued at approximately $8 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.