Salesforce Scoops MuleSoft for $6.5BSalesforce Scoops MuleSoft for $6.5B

Salesforce will use MuleSoft to power the Salesforce Integration Cloud, allowing enterprises to use any data, regardless of where it resides, for personalized customer experiences.

Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading

March 20, 2018

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Salesforce will buy MuleSoft, a platform provider for building application networks, for $6.5 billion, according to a definitive agreement announced by the two companies today.

MuleSoft provides a platform for building application networks that connect enterprise applications, data and devices, across any cloud and on-premise, according to a statement from the two companies released Tuesday afternoon. (See Salesforce Buys MuleSoft for $6.5B.)

MuleSoft will power the new Salesforce.com Inc. Integration Cloud, to allow enterprises to use any data, regardless of where it resides, for personalized customer experiences, the companies said.

MuleSoft has more than 1,200 customers, including Coca-Cola, Barclays, Unilever and Mount Sinai.

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"Together, Salesforce and MuleSoft will enable customers to connect all of the information throughout their enterprise across all public and private clouds and data sources -- radically enhancing innovation," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in the statement.

The two companies will have a conference call to discuss their merger at 2:20 p.m. PT on Tuesday, March 20.

Reuters reported that the two companies were in advanced talks Tuesday morning. (See Will Salesforce Splash $6B+ for MuleSoft?)

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About the Author

Mitch Wagner

Executive Editor, Light Reading

San Diego-based Mitch Wagner is many things. As well as being "our guy" on the West Coast (of the US, not Scotland, or anywhere else with indifferent meteorological conditions), he's a husband (to his wife), dissatisfied Democrat, American (so he could be President some day), nonobservant Jew, and science fiction fan. Not necessarily in that order.

He's also one half of a special duo, along with Minnie, who is the co-habitor of the West Coast Bureau and Light Reading's primary chewer of sticks, though she is not the only one on the team who regularly munches on bark.

Wagner, whose previous positions include Editor-in-Chief at Internet Evolution and Executive Editor at InformationWeek, will be responsible for tracking and reporting on developments in Silicon Valley and other US West Coast hotspots of communications technology innovation.

Beats: Software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), IP networking, and colored foods (such as 'green rice').

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