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Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Microsoft Joins Forces with Informatica (INFA) to Accelerate Customer Adoption
We recently published a list of . In this article, we are going to take a look at where Informatica Inc. (NYSE:INFA) stands against other AI stocks on Wall Street's radar. Days after the Biden-era rule on AI chips export was rescinded, a bipartisan group of eight U.S. lawmakers has now introduced a bill requiring makers of artificial intelligence chips to include technology that verifies the location of their chips before exporting them. Introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Chip Security Act will aim to address reports of U.S. export-controlled AI chips being smuggled into China. The bill comes shortly after US President Donald Trump began his tour of the Middle East this week, announcing several deals that will send AI chips to countries in the Middle East. This has been despite growing opposition from some inside the US government. READ NEXT: and 'In order for the United States to maintain our technological advantage, we must employ safeguards to help ensure export controls are not being circumvented, allowing these advanced AI chips to fall into the hands of nefarious actors.' For this article, we selected AI stocks by going through news articles, stock analysis, and press releases. These stocks are also popular among hedge funds. The hedge fund data is as of Q4 2024. Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter's strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (). A business executive in a modern office looking over reports detailing artificial Inc. (NYSE:INFA) is a leader in enterprise AI-powered cloud data management. On May 14, the company announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Microsoft, extending its long-standing collaboration with the company and accelerating customer adoption on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Leveraging Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ platform with key Microsoft services, including Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Azure, both companies are working closely together to deliver AI-powered solutions. Informatica's cloud data management platform is available as a SaaS offering on Azure and via Azure Marketplace to enable customers to achieve AI-driven business transformations. 'As enterprises increasingly prioritize trusted data to fuel responsible AI, agents and next-generation analytics, Informatica and Microsoft are jointly committed to empowering our customers as they continue on their cloud and AI transformation journey. This strategic agreement reflects our shared vision to drive customer success through co-innovation, go-to-market alignment and deep-field collaboration, helping organizations securely and efficiently scale AI across their data estate.' Overall, INFA ranks 10th on our list of AI stocks on Wall Street's radar. While we acknowledge the potential of INFA as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and have limited downside risk. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than INFA and that has 100x upside potential, check out our report about this cheapest AI stock. READ NEXT: and . Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at . Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
14-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Informatica and Salesforce Partner Announce Plans to Deliver AI-Driven Customer Intelligence with New Agentforce Integration
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Informatica (NYSE: INFA), an AI-powered enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced plans to expand its partnership with Salesforce to integrate Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ platform with Salesforce's Agentforce, the digital labor platform for augmenting teams with trusted autonomous AI agents in the flow of work. This new AI-driven chapter in the Salesforce and Informatica partnership will extend Agentforce for Sales and Agentforce for Service with enriched customer intelligence — empowering organizations to deliver more personalized, AI-enhanced customer experiences. At the heart of this solution is Informatica's Master Data Management (MDM), 'golden records' that integrate customer data from dozens of enterprise systems, helping to ensure optimal data quality. Informatica MDM SaaS will leverage these records to enrich AI agents built with Agentforce, supporting critical sales and service use cases across B2C and B2B environments. The announcements were made today at the company's annual data management and AI conference, Informatica World, held in Las Vegas. Planned key capabilities: Customer insights that include full profiles, contact information, buying behavior, product affinity, complex household and organizational hierarchies, segmentation, consent status (e.g., GDPR/CCPA) and contact preferences. Customer service enhancements that can improve customer satisfaction scores and organizational reputation by empowering support teams with up-to-date, context-rich customer data during every interaction. Sales enrichment that provides 360° customer intelligence across all enterprise systems to personalize engagement and help ensure regulatory compliance. 'Data is foundational for agentic AI,' said Tyler Carlson, SVP, Business Development and Strategy at Salesforce. 'Through Informatica's master data management capabilities integrated with Agentforce, Salesforce customers will be able to further ground AI agent interactions in high-quality data to drive better and targeted service and engagement.' The Informatica MDM SaaS actions for Agentforce are planned to be offered on the Salesforce AppExchange and are targeted to be globally available in the second half of 2025. 'This collaboration is about action, not just insights,' said Rik Tamm-Daniels, GVP of Strategic Ecosystems at Informatica. 'We will be augmenting the Agentforce experiences for line-of-business users with deep, reliable enterprise data to enable intelligent customer interactions that drive measurable outcomes.' About Informatica Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, only Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica's platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access governed data, simplify operations and scale with confidence. Trusted by 5,000+ customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation.
