Salesforce Acquires Informatica for $8 Billion in Equity Value, Trading Volume Ranks 14th

On May 28, 2025, Salesforce (CRM) experienced a slight decline of 0.42%, with a trading volume of $33.44 billion, ranking 14th in the day's stock market activity.

Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Informatica, a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management, for approximately $8 billion in equity value. This acquisition aims to enhance Salesforce's data foundation, which is critical for deploying powerful and responsible agentic AI. The combination of Informatica's data catalog, data integration, governance, quality, privacy, metadata management, and Master Data Management (MDM) services with the Salesforce platform will establish a unified architecture for agentic AI, enabling AI agents to operate safely, responsibly, and at scale across modern enterprises.

Informatica's advanced integration, catalog, and lineage tools will provide data transparency, showing where data comes from, how it has changed, and how it is used, which is crucial for auditability and regulatory compliance. The rich metadata from Informatica, combined with Salesforce's unified data model, will empower AI agents to interpret, connect, and act on enterprise data with meaningful context. Additionally, Informatica's built-in MDM, data quality controls, and policy management will ensure that all data driving AI is standardized, accurate, consistent, and secure.

Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce, highlighted that this acquisition is a transformational step in delivering enterprise-grade AI that is safe, responsible, and deeply integrated with the world's data. The combination of Salesforce's Einstein and Informatica's CLAIRE AI engines will forge the ultimate AI-data platform, trusted, explainable, and built to scale. This will supercharge Salesforce's Agentforce, Data Cloud, Tableau, MuleSoft, and Customer 360, enabling autonomous agents to act with intelligence, context, and confidence across every enterprise.

Amit Walia, CEO of Informatica, expressed excitement about joining forces with Salesforce, stating that it represents a significant leap forward in bringing data and AI to life by empowering businesses with the transformative power of their most critical asset—their data. The acquisition is expected to close early in Salesforce's fiscal year 2027, subject to regulatory clearances and other customary closing conditions. Stockholders holding approximately 63% of the voting power of Informatica Class A and Class B-1 common stock have already approved the transaction.