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What happens when your sensors lie, or simply go silent?
In our hyper-connected world, IoT systems power our most critical infrastructure. Smart factories run around the clock. Energy grids balance supply and demand in real time. Logistics networks track millions of shipments across continents. All of this depends on one thing: continuous, trustworthy data streams flowing from thousands of sensors.
The traditional answer has been redundancy and maintenance. Add more sensors. Check them more often. But there's another way, one that doesn't just patch the problem but reimagines how we think about sensing itself. Agentic AI offers a path beyond physical sensors, using intelligence and inference to synthesize and validate the data we need.
 
      
      How Agentic AI Agents Automate and Elevate Data Cleansing
Every business sits on a goldmine of data, but too often, that gold is buried under layers of inaccuracies, duplicates, and incomplete records. Data quality issues plague organizations across industries: customer records with missing email addresses, financial transactions with inconsistent formats, inventory systems showing phantom stock levels, and analytics dashboards built on unreliable information. But what if data cleansing could shift from a manual, reactive scramble to an automated, proactive discipline? Agentic AI agents can facilitate this transformation, turning data quality from a persistent headache into a strategic advantage.
 
      
      Salesforce Makes Major AI Data Play with $8 Billion Informatica Acquisition
Complete, high-quality data is the foundation for any successful AI initiative, and automating data management is essential for a scalable agentic AI solution. Salesforce, with its Data Cloud, provides a solid data foundation, but has gaps in data automation and governance. Informatica fills in those gaps and more. Salesforce is doubling down on its Agentic AI strategy by acquiring enterprise data management leader Informatica for approximately $8 billion. This strategic move positions Salesforce to create what CEO Marc Benioff calls "the most complete, agent-ready data platform in the industry."
