Chetan described the administrative setup process as ... Right now, it is married to data already in Data Cloud,” Chetan said. Data from external sources can be used to train customer-facing ...

and delete records in various external sources in real time, right from within Salesforce. That puts data from order-management, receivables or inventory-management systems, for instance ...

Salesforce said on Tuesday it would buy Informatica for about $8 billion, betting on the data management platform to sharpen its competitive edge in the booming artificial intelligence market.