Informatica-hosted MCPs will not be a miracle solution either, he warned: “Even if the Informatica data quality and governance capabilities are cleanly integrated in the Agent Fabric registry, these are not instantaneous operations. Checking data fields for accuracy, deduplication, and cross-system matching take time and carry latency measured in milliseconds or even multiple seconds, and that is pre-integration.”
A pivot for MuleSoft?
Bickley sees the updates as a broader strategy for Salesforce to reposition MuleSoft, which it acquired in 2018 for $5.7 billion, from a traditional API integration platform to an infrastructure layer for enterprise AI agents.
By layering orchestration, governance, and connectivity into Agent Fabric, Salesforce appears to be trying to position MuleSoft as the system of record for how agents are discovered, routed, and governed across the enterprise, deepening its role beyond API management into core AI infrastructure, he said.
