Salesforce acquires informatica for $ 8 billion

Salesforce has acquired the Informatica Data Management Company in a $ 8 billion royal rights deal, which represents a major step in pushing it to enhance the capacity of Amnesty International and data.

This announcement, which was released on Tuesday, comes about a year after the early rumors of the acquisition of the two companies shares prices sliding. At that time, Informatica to reject It was for sale, but many could change a year.

Under the terms of the deal, Salesforce will pay $ 25 in cash for the share of the share of the Class and Class B-1, with its previous investment in the company.

Informatica was founded in 1993 and works with more than 5,000 customers in more than 100 countries. the The company had $ 7.1 billion The maximum market at the time of publication.

This acquisition will help strengthen the AISForce ambitions, according to the company’s press statement, by giving the company more data and governance infrastructure to help artificial intelligence agents operate “safely and responsibly, and on a large scale across the modern institution.”

“We will honor Agentforce, Data Cloud, Tableau, MULESOFT and Customer 360, allowing independent agents to act with intelligence, context and confidence in each institution,” said Mark Benioff, CEO of Salesforce in the press statement. “This is a transformative step in providing artificial intelligence at the level of the institution safe, responsible and deeply integrated with the world’s data.”

The road to this deal began in April 2024, when reports showed that Salesforce was looking for Informatica. The market reaction was quickly – the shares of the two companies fell on fears of difficult integration or strategic mismanage. Informatica later issued a general statement rejecting any sale discussions. But what seemed to be unlikely is now official.

Informatica is not the first data management company that Salsforce gained last year. In September, Salesforce A private company picked up for $ 1.9 billion in cash.

“The security of the data was never more important, and the expertise and products of OWN, which have proven our ability to provide strong solutions to protection and data management, will enhance our customers,” Salsforce, General Manager of Salesforce said in a press release at that time.

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