At the Informatica World 2026 event in Las Vegas, Informatica announced expanded partnerships with Databricks and Snowflake to help businesses deploy agentic AI systems using trusted and governed enterprise data.

The move highlights how enterprises are now shifting from testing AI tools to building scalable AI systems with stronger governance, interoperability and metadata management.

As part of the deeper collaboration with Databricks, Informatica introduced a native integration between its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and Databricks Agent Bricks using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. MCP is becoming an emerging standard that allows AI agents to interact smoothly with enterprise systems. With this integration, businesses can directly access Informatica services like metadata search and address validation inside AI workflows without needing custom integrations.

Rik Tamm-Daniels, Vice President of Ecosystems and Technology at Informatica, said companies that succeed in the AI race will be the ones that provide trusted and governed data to their AI agents from the beginning.

Informatica also launched a new connector for Databricks Lakebase, allowing organisations to ingest and govern transactional OLTP data used in production AI systems. Another update enables enterprises to push “golden records” from Informatica’s Master Data Management platform directly into Databricks SQL using pre-built schemas for customer, supplier, product and location data.

Additionally, Informatica expanded governance interoperability by enabling Unity Catalog tag extraction. This allows governance tags from Databricks Unity Catalog to appear inside Informatica’s Cloud Data Governance and Catalog platform.

Stephen Orban, Senior Vice President of Product Ecosystem and Partnerships at Databricks, said customers are increasingly looking for ways to operationalise AI agents with properly governed data that can scale for production use.

Alongside the Databricks partnership updates, Informatica also strengthened its collaboration with Snowflake around AI governance and open-format data ecosystems. The company introduced support for MCP-based integrations with Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling governed enterprise data to connect directly with AI agents and analytics workloads running on Snowflake infrastructure.

Informatica further announced wider governance support for open-format ecosystems such as Apache Iceberg environments. This will help enterprises maintain unified governance across both structured and unstructured data systems operating in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Tamm-Daniels added that the company is embracing Unity Catalog while expanding interoperability features that enterprise customers need to securely democratise access to enterprise data assets.

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