Joining a long list of its tech brethren, Informatica Inc. on Wednesday laid out its strategy for artificial intelligence (AI) at a conference in Las Vegas.
The enterprise cloud-data management company introduced a suite of new AI agents designed to help companies automate laborious tasks associated with enterprise data management.
Called CLAIRE Agents, they include a Data Quality agent that continuously monitors and remediates data across any system, including cloud data warehouses; a Data Discovery agent for identifying relevant, trusted and compliant data assets for analytics and AI workloads; a Data Ingestion agent that helps create data pipelines; an ELT agent for automating extract, load and transform workloads; and a Modernization agent for data engineering.
The company said CLAIRE Agents, due later this year, will be compatible with data platforms from Amazon Web Services, Databricks Inc., Google Cloud, Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., and Snowflake Inc., as well as open standards like Model Context Protocol.
The company also unveiled AI Agent Engineering, a tool for Informatica customers to develop their own agentic applications. The new service is within Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud for companies to create, connect, and manage multi-agent AI systems. When available in the fall, AI Agent Engineering will offer a unified, no-code environment for orchestrating AI agents across environments such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, Salesforce Inc., and ServiceNow Inc.
“As the world of AI agents proliferates, the winners will be those who can connect, govern and manage agents at scale while providing enterprise-wide access to trusted data,” Informatica CEO Amit Walia said in a statement announcing the news. “With the launch of CLAIRE Agents and AI Agent Engineering, we are redefining what is possible in data management and AI orchestration. By combining the deep intelligence of our CLAIRE Agents with a no-code, enterprise-grade foundation, Informatica empowers businesses to turn autonomous agents into a strategic advantage, securely and confidently.”
“With AI Agent Engineering, we’re enabling organizations to rapidly build, connect and orchestrate intelligent agent workflows across complex hybrid ecosystems, all without writing a single line of code,” Walia added.
Informatica’s agentic AI agent play dovetailed with an Ernst & Young poll Tuesday that showed an uptick in confidence and investment from technology leaders toward AI agents. The survey of more than 500 technology leaders, taken in April, revealed nearly half (48%) are already adopting or fully deploying AI agents. Half said 50% of AI deployment will be autonomous in their company within 24 months. Most striking, 81% said they felt optimistic about AI’s potential to help achieve their organizations’ goals in the next year.
In addition to Informatica, ServiceNow, IBM Corp., Atlassian Corp., and others in recent weeks have introduced AI agent news.
