Salesforce was most likely to integrate Informatica’s offerings with its MuleSoft offerings, which competes in the iPaaS market along with vendors such as Informatica, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, Boomi, IBM, TIBCO, and AWS.
MuleSoft, acquired by Salesforce in 2018 for $5.7 billion, offers the Anypoint Platform — an iPaaS service — that offers integration, automation, and API management capabilities.
On the other hand, Informatica offers similar services via its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform. Some of the services and components of the platform include cloud API and application integration, Cloud B2B Gateway, Cloud Integration, API Manager and API Center, and data integration among others.
Experts had said that the deal could be a significant opportunity for Salesforce as it comes at a time when the average enterprise, especially the large ones, has over 1,000 applications and data sources, which throws up the challenge of cleaning up long-tail data and matching it with core enterprise data.
Informatica too, according to the experts, could have gained from the acquisition, at least from the investor’s perspective.
The acquisition would be beneficial for Informatica to counter its perceived inability to communicate a roadmap or strategy that would satisfy Wall Street, they said, with the warning that Informatica employees could have faced some downsizing.
