Microsoft and Salesforce pool resources to buy Informatica for $5.3bn

Charlee Gothard
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Why Informatica, why together and why now?

Microsoft and Salesforce have snapped up data integration specialist Informatica Corporation. It's not actually been announced how large a share the companies have in the firm, but it's now deli...

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