Digital Transformation
Salesforce Has Announced the Close of its MuleSoft Acquisition
Exciting news! Salesforce has completed its acquisition of MuleSoft, the provider of one of the world’s leading platforms for building application networks.
More than 1,200 customers in 60 countries around the world—including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Barclays and Mount Sinai—rely on MuleSoft to change and innovate faster, deliver differentiated customer experiences, and increase operational efficiency.
With MuleSoft, Salesforce will accelerate our customers’ digital transformations, enabling them to unlock data across legacy systems, cloud apps and devices to make smarter, faster decisions and create highly differentiated, connected customer experiences.
Have more questions? Please see our press release or check out the FAQs below.
Who is MuleSoft?
MuleSoft provides one of the world’s leading platforms for building application networks that connect enterprise apps, data and devices across any cloud and on-premise.
Who are MuleSoft’s customers?
More than 1,200 customers in 60 countries around the world—including Coca-Cola, Barclays, Unilever and Mount Sinai—rely on MuleSoft to change and innovate faster, deliver differentiated customer experiences and increase operational efficiency.
How many employees does MuleSoft have? Where is the company based?
MuleSoft has approximately 1,200 employees. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, with additional offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Austin, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Cologne, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York City, Paris, Pilar, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney and Washington, D.C.
Why is Salesforce acquiring MuleSoft?
Every company is undergoing a digital transformation and integration has never been more strategic. With MuleSoft, Salesforce will accelerate our customers’ digital transformations, enabling them to unlock data across legacy systems, cloud apps and devices to make smarter, faster decisions and create highly differentiated, connected customer experiences.
Why is this great for Salesforce and MuleSoft customers?
Salesforce and MuleSoft share a passionate focus on customer success. With MuleSoft, Salesforce will be able to address our customers’ top IT challenge: integration. Salesforce and MuleSoft will work together to identify our customers’ key integration initiatives and support their digital transformations. As part of Salesforce, MuleSoft will be able to deliver even more compelling and innovative capabilities to its customers while leveraging Salesforce’s extensive partner network to expand its global distribution footprint.
How will Salesforce support MuleSoft’s strategy and product roadmap?
Salesforce is committed to MuleSoft’s roadmap and vision for Anypoint Platform as a leading hybrid integration platform for both on-premise and cloud deployments. Together, we will drive significant value for our customers and MuleSoft will be able to accelerate its growth and deliver even more innovation to its customers at scale. As we bring our companies together, we look forward to sharing more details about MuleSoft as part of Salesforce.
What does the acquisition mean for MuleSoft’s neutrality?
We recognize that much of the value of MuleSoft comes from its openness and neutrality. Greg Schott will remain CEO and GM of MuleSoft and MuleSoft will continue to build toward its vision for Anypoint Platform. With MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform, customers will continue to build application networks that connect any application, data and device—whether it touches Salesforce or not—making them pluggable and reusable, ultimately enabling business agility. Anypoint Platform will also be part of the Salesforce Integration Cloud.
What is Salesforce Integration Cloud?
The new Salesforce Integration Cloud will include a set of services and tools that make it easy for customers to integrate their applications and deliver intelligent, connected customer experiences across all channels and touchpoints.
How will MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform fit with Salesforce Integration Cloud?
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform will be available as part of the Salesforce Integration Cloud, which—along with other complementary tools—will make it easy for customers to surface any data regardless of where it resides to deliver intelligent, connected customer experiences across all channels and touchpoints.
When will the Integration Cloud products be generally available?
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform is generally available today, from MuleSoft. Additional Integration Cloud products will be announced later this year.
How will the acquisition benefit Salesforce and MuleSoft partners?
Salesforce is proud to provide an open platform. We will continue to support our vibrant ecosystem, as we believe strongly that our partners are a key enabler of our customers’ success.
MuleSoft will be a source of value for many Salesforce partners as they go to market with combined solutions that accelerate our customers’ digital transformations. Salesforce partners will also have the ability to extend their services to include MuleSoft’s industry-leading integration capabilities and create additional apps and revenue streams.
The addition of MuleSoft to Salesforce will create tremendous value for our partners as they continue to invest in Anypoint Platform, building toward MuleSoft’s vision for the application network.
Both companies remain focused on partner success and speed of innovation.
How much is Salesforce paying for MuleSoft?
Please see our press release.
