Informatica expands Microsoft Fabric integration: Strengthening the data foundation for Salesforce customers
Redwood City, Calif. — March 18, 2026
Informatica from Salesforce, a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, today announced a deeper integration with Microsoft at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Atlanta. The latest expansion centers on enabling analytics and AI across Microsoft Fabric and Azure, with general availability of new capabilities that empower Informatica customers to unify and govern data more effectively across multi-cloud environments.
For Salesforce customers, this collaboration represents a pivotal step toward a more trusted and AI-ready data foundation. By linking Informatica's cloud data management capabilities with Microsoft Fabric and Azure, organizations can orchestrate data workflows, ensure data quality, and scale AI/ML initiatives across key platforms—while preserving governance and security across the data lifecycle. The result is faster, more reliable insights that power customer experiences across Salesforce solutions, including Customer 360 and Einstein-powered analytics.
What this means for Salesforce customers
- Unified data flows: Seamless integration across Informatica's data management layer, Microsoft Fabric, and Salesforce data surfaces to accelerate analytics and AI workloads.
- Enhanced data quality and governance: Stronger controls over data lineage, quality metrics, and compliance across multi-cloud ecosystems.
- AI-powered insights at scale: The combined stack enables broader and faster AI model training and inference on trusted data sets, improving decision making in marketing, sales, service, and operations.
- Faster time-to-insight: Streamlined data pipelines reduce latency between data ingestion and actionable insights within Salesforce applications.
This move aligns with the broader industry shift toward vendor-agnostic, AI-first data strategies. By empowering Informatica customers with deeper Fabric integration, Salesforce teams can leverage a more resilient data fabric—supporting smarter workflows, governance, and analytics across customer data, product data, and operational metrics.
Key benefits for enterprise analytics and AI
- Improved data trust: End-to-end data lineage and governance across multi-cloud environments.
- Scalable analytics: Leveraged Fabric's analytics capabilities to run large-scale AI/ML workloads on clean, managed data.
- Operational efficiency: Reduced data prep time and simplified data orchestration for Salesforce-driven initiatives.
- Secure data collaboration: Consistent security and access controls across Informatica, Microsoft Fabric, and Salesforce ecosystems.
Looking ahead, customers can expect ongoing enhancements to cross-vendor data pipelines, more turnkey connectors, and expanded governance capabilities that reinforce a trusted foundation for AI and analytics. As data becomes more central to business decisions, the combined strength of Informatica, Microsoft Fabric, and Salesforce helps organizations turn complex data into confident, actionable intelligence.
To learn more about the partnership and the latest updates, read the full press release from Informatica and Salesforce announcing the Microsoft Fabric integration expansion.