Salesforce Eyes Informatica to Boost Data Capabilities
- Companies in talks for a deal that could be reached this month
- Informatica would rank among Salesforce’s top 3 acquisitions
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Salesforce Inc.’s Marc Benioff is pursuing what would be one of the company’s biggest-ever deals after fending off activist investors critical of his reliance on acquisitions.
Benioff is in talks to buy Informatica Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that would add to Salesforce’s data integration and management capabilities. The companies could reach a deal as soon as within a week, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks were private. A final agreement could take longer than that, or the talks could still end without one, they added.