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Enterprise software giant Salesforce will buy artificial-intelligence-powered cloud data management company Informatica for nearly $8 billion.
According to Salesforce, the deal will strengthen its AI foundation, enabling it to deploy powerful and agentic AI, thereby ensuring that its AI agents operate safely, responsibly, and at scale across its modern enterprise.
“We’re excited to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion — uniting the world’s #1 AI CRM with the #1 AI-powered MDM and ETL platform,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce.“This combination brings together Salesforce’s Einstein and Informatica’s CLAIRE AI engines to forge the ultimate AI-data platform — trusted, explainable, and built to scale. Together, we’ll supercharge Agentforce, Data Cloud, Tableau, MuleSoft, and Customer 360, enabling autonomous agents to act with intelligence, context, and confidence across every enterprise. This is a transformational step in delivering enterprise-grade AI that is safe, responsible, and deeply integrated with the world’s data.”
Informatica, which has over 5,000 customers across the world, prides itself on being the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation.
“Joining forces with Salesforce represents a significant leap forward in our journey to bring data and AI to life by empowering businesses with the transformative power of their most critical asset—their data,” said Amit Walia, CEO of Informatica, in a statement. “We have a shared vision for how we can help organizations harness the full value of their data in the AI era.”
Informatica’s Class A and Class B-1 common stock shareholders will receive $25 per share as a result of the deal, which is expected to close in Salesforce’s fiscal year of 2027, subject to regulatory approval.
Salesforce plans to invest in Informatica’s ecosystem of data and infrastructure partners and use its marketing and distribution prowess to grow Informatica’s cloud business.
It added that it will continue to support Informatica’s building of AI-powered data management products.
Salesforce said that once the deal is complete, it plans to rapidly integrate Informatica’s technology stack—including data integration, quality, governance, and unified metadata for Agentforce, as well as a single data pipeline with MDM on Data Cloud—into the Salesforce ecosystem.
