{"id":93650,"date":"2026-05-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?post_type=sf_press_release&p=93650"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:20:08","slug":"informatica-delivers-trusted-data-foundation","status":"publish","type":"sf_press_release","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/press-releases\/2026\/05\/20\/informatica-delivers-trusted-data-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Informatica from Salesforce Delivers the Trusted Data Foundation Every AI Agent Needs \u2014 Now Across Every Surface, Every Platform, Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You can’t have trusted AI without trusted data. Every enterprise is racing to put agents to work \u2014 but most are still running on data that is fragmented, outdated, and impossible to govern at the speed AI demands. The gap between AI ambition and enterprise reality has never been wider \u2014 and it’s exactly what has prevented so many companies from becoming Agentic Enterprises. In fact, a 2026 CDO survey<\/a> found that 76% of data leaders acknowledge governance has not kept pace with AI and 61% say higher-quality data makes it easier to move AI pilots into production.

At Informatica World 2026, we are accelerating what’s possible \u2014 so enterprises can stop managing data manually and start trusting it to power every agent, every decision, and every outcome that matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Build Headless \u2014 Trusted Data Across Every Surface<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The next evolution of enterprise data isn’t about where data lives. It’s about making it trusted, governed, and accessible to every agent, every surface, everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informatica from Salesforce is the first enterprise data management platform to deliver fully headless data management \u2014 exposing every data management capability as a reusable, governed service that any AI agent can invoke instantly, with zero code and without rebuilding your architecture with native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. Enterprises can invoke data management operations directly from their favorite LLM or IDE \u2014 including Claude, Slackbot, Cursor, and more \u2014 bringing trusted data management into the tools and workflows where developers and agents already work. Whether through prompts, GUIs, or code, developers and agents work inside an open, extensible ecosystem that eliminates fragmentation and accelerates outcomes without sacrificing trust.

CLAIRE\u00ae<\/strong> now operates as a fully headless, multi-agent intelligence layer \u2014 bringing the full depth of enterprise data management to every platform, every agent, and every workflow in your ecosystem. Whether inside Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Snowflake, or any other platform, CLAIRE delivers what no other data platform can: trusted governance, quality, integration, and Master Data Management (MDM) capabilities, everywhere you need them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As media operations demand faster, more trusted data at the speed of news, Hearst is making headless a cornerstone of its production architecture \u2014 enabling humans and agents to collaborate on a single, reliable foundation. “Headless data management is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ \u2014 it’s an architectural requirement for achieving the speed and accuracy we need in mission-critical operations. We are excited that Informatica now brings this capability, enabling us to powerfully augment our human teams with agentic processes. By fueling both human and agentic workflows, Informatica ensures our data foundation is fast, trusted, and precise, allowing us to put the power of human decision-making where it is needed.” \u2014 <\/strong><\/em>Theodora Bakker, VP of Data at The Hearst Corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accelerate Data Management with Purpose-Built Agents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Agents are only as accurate as the data flowing to them. Informatica Agentic Integration facilitates the real-time flow of both structured and unstructured data across the enterprise \u2014 helping to ensure that agents see the full, accurate context of your business, not just a fragment of it. The Data Quality Agent<\/strong> enables business users to define data quality rules in natural language \u2014 automatically generating and deploying production-ready logic without engineering support so data issues are caught and resolved continuously without slowing teams down. The Metadata Enrichment Agent<\/strong> automatically closes gaps in the data catalog \u2014 generating business descriptions and sensitivity labels as data flows \u2014 so every data asset is governed, understood, and AI-ready at scale.

We are introducing the industry’s first Agentic Multidomain MDM<\/strong>\u2014 a continuously running system where autonomous agents cleanse, steward, and enrich master data in real time, replacing the slow, manual, human-dependent MDM model. The new Data Steward Agent<\/strong> automates the labor-intensive work of resolving quality issues and matching records \u2014 helping to ensure that every piece of master data carries its own instruction manual so autonomous agents can make high-integrity decisions with full lineage and transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ensure financial stability in an era of AI, Rabobank is prioritizing a governed data foundation to turn complex risk and finance data into trusted, actionable intelligence. “To be ready for AI, data quality and the right platform are critical to move the data and make data ready for distribution \u2014 that’s where Informatica is helping prepare us for the future.” <\/em>\u2014 Edmond Tar\u00e9e, Area Lead (VP), Group Risk & Finance Data, Rabobank<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n