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Informatica from Salesforce Expands Microsoft Fabric Integration: Strengthening AI-Powered Data Foundations

Posted: March 18, 2026

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Informatica from Salesforce, a leading provider of AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, announced deeper integration with Microsoft as part of its ongoing collaboration with Microsoft Fabric. Revealed at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Atlanta, the latest updates include general availability of expanded integration pods designed to deliver a trusted data foundation for Informatica customers deploying analytics and AI across Microsoft Fabric and Azure.

What's new: Pod expansion for deeper Fabric integration

The announcement highlights the expansion of data integration "pods" that connect Informatica's Intelligent Data Platform with the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. This expansion aims to simplify how customers ingest, govern, transform, and activate data across Fabric data services and Azure analytics, enabling broader AI workloads with higher quality and trust.

Teams collaborating to unlock AI-ready data across Fabric and Azure.

Why this matters for Salesforce customers

For customers already leveraging Salesforce for customer 360 and data-driven AI initiatives, the expanded pods offer:

• A unified, governed data foundation that supports reliable AI model training and inference.
• Deeper interoperability between Informatica's data management capabilities and Fabric's analytics surface and Azure data services.
• Improved data quality, lineage, privacy controls, and compliance across the Microsoft Fabric landscape.
• Faster time-to-insight through streamlined data ingestion, transformation, and data activation for analytics and AI use cases.

Trust and governance underpin AI-ready data across Fabric and Azure.

How the integration works (high-level)

The integration leverages Informatica's data management capabilities to orchestrate data flows into and out of Microsoft Fabric's data lakehouse and Fabric-native analytics layers. Key capabilities likely featured in the expanded pods include:

• End-to-end data ingestion, quality, and enrichment for analytics-ready datasets.
• Metadata-driven governance and lineage to track data provenance across Fabric and Azure services.
• Seamless activation of data for AI models, including governance-aware data splits, feature stores, and monitoring.
• Security and privacy controls aligned with enterprise policies across cloud destinations.

Integrated data pipelines powering analytics and AI across Fabric and Azure.

Availability and next steps

The expanded integration pods are moving toward general availability, signaling a broader commitment to delivering AI-ready data across the Microsoft Fabric platform and Azure ecosystem. As customers adopt these capabilities, expect enhancements in data quality, governance, and time-to-insight for business analytics and AI workloads.

Real-time analytics and AI insights powered by Fabric-ready data foundations.

What's next for your organization

If you're pursuing a more unified, AI-enabled data strategy across Salesforce, Informatica, and Microsoft Fabric, this expanded integration offers a compelling path to elevate data quality, governance, and analytics at scale. Consider engaging with your Informatica or Salesforce account teams to explore pilot opportunities, architecture reviews, and deployment planning.

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Note: This post is based on the press release announcing Informatica from Salesforce's deepening integration with Microsoft Fabric and the expansion of data pods for analytics and AI across Fabric and Azure, published March 18, 2026.