Salesforce is acquiring cloud data management firm Informatica in an $8 billion deal. Salesforce is paying $25 per share for holders of Informatica's Class A and Class B-1 common stock.

Salesforce to acquire Informatica for $8 billion to boost agentic AI, cloud data management, enterprise data market, CEO Marc Benioff says.

Data Understanding: Informatica’s rich metadata, combined with Salesforce’s unified data model, will empower AI agents to interpret, connect, and act on enterprise data with meaningful context.

Salesforce agreed to buy Own Company, a data protection and data management business, for about $1.9 billion in cash, net of the value of the roughly 10% stake currently owned by Salesforce.

The CRM provider emphasized visibility and scalable controls as it announced upgrades to its agentic AI platform.

Salesforce agreed to acquire Informatica for $8 billion in cash, accelerating the growth of cloud business and further investing in AI-powered data management products.

Salesforce also announced it will be the first AI model developer to disclose the energy efficiency data of its proprietary models under the new framework.

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