Salesforce extends its headless push into enterprise data via Informatica
Salesforce appears to be on a mission to “decapitate” enterprise software. After unveiling headless commerce and headless applications, the company late on Wednesday extended the label to enterprise data management via Informatica, one of its more recent acquisitions, as part of its broader industry push to prepare enterprise systems for autonomous AI agents. While Salesforce has spent the past year stitching together Agentforce, Data Cloud, MuleSoft, Tableau, and its Customer 360 portfolio into what it describes as a unified AI operating layer, the headless architecture from Informatica, it said, fills a major gap around trusted enterprise data, including governance, metadata management, and lineage, all of which are required for AI agents to act with less human supervision. As part of this new architecture, Informatica said that it is effectively breaking apart its traditional Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform into reusable data management services that can be invoked