New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Artificial intelligence is changing the way enterprises think about data. As organizations accelerate AI and agentic AI initiatives, the conversation is no longer just about building smarter models but about building trusted data foundations that can support them. Data quality, governance, metadata and compliance are becoming central to how businesses scale AI responsibly.

That shift also explains Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica, which strengthens the data layer behind its AI strategy. While Salesforce focuses on activating data through applications such as Agentforce, Informatica brings the governance, quality and metadata needed to give AI the context it requires.

In this conversation with CIOL,...