Salesforce delivers greater cost savings than the data integration market average

March 27, 2026 - Research 26054

Organizations adopt data integration platforms to consolidate fragmented tooling and reduce the ongoing cost of managing data flows across systems. Not all platforms deliver the same degree of savings, and the differences matter when organizations are evaluating vendors or deciding whether to modernize legacy infrastructure. To understand how Salesforce (Informatica) compares against the broader market on cost reduction, Nucleus reviewed data from 69 data integration deployments and found that 85.3 percent of Informatica deployments reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by a larger magnitude than the data integration market average. This means fewer dollars spent on redundant licenses, less staff time absorbed by infrastructure maintenance, and lower administrative overhead from managing multiple solutions. Organizations evaluating data integration platforms should weigh cost reduction heavily in their selection process as those that reduce TCO free budget and staff capacity to invest in expanding data workloads and new technology initiatives rather than absorbing those resources into maintaining existing workloads and infrastructure.