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Salesforce Announcements: $8B Acquisition, AI, & Earnings

By: Jasmin Espinas
May 27, 2025

Salesforce remains a dominant institution in cloud computing and customer relationship management (CRM), serving enterprises that depend on integrated data and automation. In fact, in the latest Salesforce announcements, the company agreed to buy Informatica for $8 billion, consolidating its grip on enterprise data services.

This article also outlines Salesforce’s Summer ‘25 releases, insights from its upcoming Q1 2026 earnings, and the launch of Agentforce for financial services.

Latest Salesforce Announcements: Salesforce to Acquire Informatica for $8 Billion

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion in equity value. The deal, confirmed on May 27, will see Informatica shareholders receive $25 per share in cash.

Informatica and Salesforce today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Salesforce to acquire Informatica.

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— Informatica (@Informatica) May 27, 2025

Moreover, this acquisition aligns with Salesforce’s broader strategy to strengthen its enterprise data stack and position its platform for AI-first operations.

On the other hand, the move is intended to support Salesforce’s agentic AI roadmap.

By bringing Informatica’s capabilities under its umbrella, specifically metadata management, data privacy, lineage tracking, and MDM, Salesforce plans to create a stable data infrastructure that AI agents can rely on for accuracy, context, and compliance.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said the partnership will create an “agent-ready” platform by integrating Informatica’s data tools with Salesforce’s own stack, including Tableau and MuleSoft.

Likewise, Informatica CEO Amit Walia echoed the sentiment, noting that the merger reflects a shared vision of equipping enterprises to better use their data for AI-driven results.

Additionally, the deal reinforces Salesforce’s goal to lead in the $150 billion enterprise data market with a platform designed for scale, security, and automated workflow.

Strategic Objectives Behind the Acquisition

Data Transparency

In particular, Informatica’s cataloging and lineage tracking systems trace data from origin to use, offering visibility needed for auditing and meeting compliance standards.

Data Context

Combining Informatica’s metadata with Salesforce’s data model will help AI tools draw relevant relationships between records. As a result, the tools can speed up conclusions without sacrificing precision.

Data Governance

With built-in controls for quality and policy enforcement, Salesforce can maintain consistent, secure datasets across its ecosystem.

Salesforce Announcements: Summer ’25 Release Key Product and Platform Updates

Salesforce releases three scheduled updates each year, and the Summer ’25 release introduces several updates that require immediate review.

Specifically, the official release date is May 16, 2025, with phased rollouts on May 10, May 17, June 7, and June 14.

Meanwhile, the Sandbox Preview began on May 9, allowing teams to evaluate changes against existing configurations.

In these Salesforce announcements, the company also emphasizes readiness and testing ahead of launch to minimize disruption and maintain system integrity.

1. Salesforce Summer ‘25 Release for Sales

Here are the summer ’25 releases for sales:

Capture Leads from LinkedIn: Mandatory API Update
- Firstly, LinkedIn is deprecating legacy APIs, which affects Salesforce users syncing Lead Gen Forms. To maintain lead capture functionality, all integrations must be updated before May.
Salesforce for Outlook Retirement (December 2027)
- Support for Salesforce for Outlook will end by December 2027. Therefore, teams should plan a transition to Outlook Integration and Einstein Activity Capture.
Sales Cloud Go Renamed Salesforce Go
- Sales Cloud Go is now Salesforce Go, suggesting broader availability across different clouds.
Email Privacy with Header-Only Sync
- Admins can restrict email data capture to header details only. This helps reduce exposure in regulated environments where message content shouldn’t be retained.
Consolidated Email Logging & Tracking
- The Email Integration UI now offers a combined view for logging and tracking. Users must log emails manually, which improves transparency and compliance.
Dashboard Widget Refresh Control
- Users can refresh individual dashboard widgets instead of the entire dashboard. This setting is configurable under Reports and Dashboards.
Quota Planning Enhancements
- Lastly, admins can freeze columns and control export permissions in Pipeline Forecasting, which helps enforce internal data sharing policies.

2. Salesforce Summer ‘25 Release for Service Cloud

Below are some of the summer ’25 releases for service cloud:

Close Cases from Case Details
- Users can now close cases directly from the details page. This reduces clicks and speeds up routine workflows.
Enhanced Feedback Surveys
- Surveys now support emoji ratings, visual progress indicators, more attachments (up to 20), and simplified URL configuration.
Notify Senders of Email-to-Case Failures
- If an email fails during processing, the sender can be notified automatically to reduce response delays.
Updated Single Email Send Limit
- Lastly, the hourly cap of 250 recipients now includes emails sent through Case Lightning Email Composer.

3. Salesforce Summer ‘25 Release for Admins

For admins, here are the Salesforce summer ’25 releases:

Improved List View Dropdown
- The new dropdown interface supports better scrolling, recently viewed items, and faster search, which improves daily usability.
Simplified Object Deletion Workflow
- Admins can now view dependencies before deleting custom objects, making cleanup processes more reliable.
Org-Wide Sender for Subscriptions
- Subscription emails for reports and dashboards can now be sent from a standard organization-wide address, reducing confusion and helping with email management.
Mass Update Object Permissions
- Admins can apply permission changes across all custom profiles and sets in one step using Object Manager.
Easier Permission Set Summary Editing
- Permissions can now be edited directly from the summary view without navigating through multiple setup pages.
Streamlined Permission Set Group Management
- Updates to permission sets within groups are faster and more accessible from the summary page.
User Access Summary Dashboard
- Finally, admins can review all access rights across permission sets, groups, and queues in a single, sortable view.

4. Salesforce Summer ‘25 Release for Developers

Some summer ’25 releases for developers include:

TypeScript Support for Lightning Components
- Lightning Base Components now offer official TypeScript definitions. As a result, this improves safety and reliability when building with JavaScript.
Apex Formula Templates
- In addition, Apex’s FormulaBuilder now supports merge-field syntax using parseAsTemplate(). This update simplifies logic and reduces unnecessary database queries.
ApexGuru Optimizer
- Moreover, now available in eligible editions, ApexGuru detects inefficient code patterns like SOQL-in-loops and offers targeted optimization tips.

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Salesforce Announcements: Salesforce Launches Agentforce for Financial Services

On May 21, Salesforce announced Agentforce for Financial Services, a new AI-driven solution designed to streamline client-facing operations in banking, insurance, and wealth management.

This launch adds to recent Salesforce announcements focused on operational efficiency through automation.

Agentforce introduces a library of role-specific AI agents that handle recurring front-office tasks, such as preparing investment briefings, reissuing credit cards, or offering relevant lending options based on a customer’s profile.

These agents function alongside staff, not as replacements, but as part of an integrated workflow that lightens administrative workloads.

As a result, this helps institutions reallocate time toward direct client interaction, which remains central to retention and growth strategies in financial services.

Furthermore, Agentforce operates entirely within a firm’s existing compliance framework. Every automated action aligns with internal policies and regulatory standards.

Because it is embedded within Financial Services Cloud, AI agents and human users share a single, secure environment. This integration supports both accountability and user confidence while enabling scalable, context-aware automation.

Salesforce Announcements: Salesforce FY26 Q1 Earnings Expected to Show Continued Growth

Salesforce confirmed on May 7 that it will report its fiscal 2026 first-quarter results on May 28 after the market closes. At the same time, a conference call with investors is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time.

The webcast and a replay will be hosted on the company’s Investor Relations site. In line with recent Salesforce announcements, the update is expected to reflect continued traction in AI-driven productivity and platform integration.

In addition, quarterly highlights point to broader adoption of digital labor through unified tools across Agentforce, Data Cloud, Tableau, and Slack. These integrations simplify how customers manage data, automate processes, and measure results.

The quarter also shows a strong emphasis on product cohesion, positioning Salesforce to scale new AI initiatives without compromising performance or compliance.

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Conclusion

Based on recent Salesforce announcements, the company continues to push product and platform updates that align closely with operational use cases, especially in data integration, AI agents, and financial services automation.

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