As we continue to push the frontiers of data and AI, Informatica by Salesforce is proud to celebrate the remarkable achievements of our customers that are transforming industries and driving innovation. The 2026 Innovation Awards recognize organizations that have harnessed the power of Informatica’s solutions to solve complex challenges, accelerate digital transformation and create lasting business impact.

This year’s awards highlight inspiring stories of creativity, resilience and leadership in data management and AI-driven initiatives. From optimizing cloud data strategies to revolutionizing customer experiences, our winners exemplify how data fuels innovation in every sector.

• Business Acceleration & Digital Automation: Schneider Electric consolidated previously fragmented Installed Base data into a unified, AI‑enhanced master data management platform, significantly improving digital productivity, strengthening data reliability, and lowering maintenance efforts, ultimately accelerating their digital transformation.
  

Honorees: Ministry of Tourism for Saudi Arabia and Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

• Customer Experience Optimization: Hilton integrated customer data across all marketing channels with Informatica MDM Customer 360 SaaS, creating a single trusted identity that drives personalized marketing and enhanced customer engagement. 

Honorees: Citco and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

• Analytics & Business Intelligence Acceleration: Baker Hughes transformed financial operations by consolidating master data from multiple ERPs into a centralized SAP cFIN system, reducing forecasting from months to hours and enabling near real-time financial reporting across five ERPs. 

Honorees: Bandai Namco Holdings

• Cloud Modernization & Consolidation: Performance Food Group is modernizing its legacy on-premises MDM by migrating to Informatica’s Enterprise Data Management SaaS platform. This migration consolidates master data management and integration, reducing maintenance efforts, enabling AI integration, and enhancing data quality and operational efficiency across the organization. 

Honorees: TELUS, BDO Unibank, and Charles Schwab

• Data & AI Engineering Innovation: KDDI Corporation engineered a high-scale ETL infrastructure processing 35 billion records daily using Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud on a hybrid cloud architecture, enabling real-time data insights and automation that enhance network operations and service differentiation.

Honorees: Thailand Post and Claro S/A

• Data & AI Governance & Compliance: Krungsri (Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited) strengthened its enterprise Data & AI Governance foundation by improving lineage visibility across in-scope critical data, enhancing compliance traceability, and expanding the availability of trusted, governed datasets to accelerate analytics and AI adoption across the organization.

Honorees: KPMG and Emirates Flight Catering

• Digital Commerce & Supply Chain Optimization: As part of a broad Menu Pricing strategy, Whataburger implemented Informatica Product 360 and Cloud Data Integration (CDI) to create authoritative sources for product and recipe data. This cloud-native solution streamlined data cleansing, consolidation, and synchronization, enabling automated pricing updates and collaboration with digital partners, resulting in a unified foundation that enhances customer experiences and speeds multi-channel launches.

Honorees: dsm-firmenich and Lyondellbasel.

This year’s top honor goes to PepsiCo, a global food and drinks leader serving millions of consumers daily with a diverse portfolio of products. Seeing an opportunity to modernize legacy on-premises Master Data Management and Data Governance systems, PepsiCo embarked on its Enterprise Data Foundation initiative to build a unified, AI-centric data infrastructure that drives smarter decision-making and operational efficiency.

PepsiCo transformed data governance into an AI-enabled, scalable operating model that increases trust and speed in how data is used across the enterprise. By modernizing onto Informatica’s IDMC platform, PepsiCo consolidated fragmented tools into a unified, AI-enabled foundation for data cataloging, quality, and master data management – reducing operational complexity and cost. This shift enabled self-service data access through the Data Marketplace and CLAIRE GPT, empowering users to quickly discover and confidently use trusted data, resulting in faster time to insights. Standardized workflows and intelligent automation streamlined core governance processes — such as cataloging, data quality monitoring, and assessments — improving the depth and consistency of metadata critical for AI-ready data, while reducing manual effort, and enabling earlier detection and resolution of data issues. Collectively, these improvements strengthened data reliability, accelerated analytics delivery, and enhanced PepsiCo’s readiness to scale AI and data-driven innovation.

As we mark another year of customer innovation, we remain committed to empowering organizations worldwide with data-driven insights and AI capabilities. Congratulations to all our 2026 Innovation Award winners – your success inspires us all.
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