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Salesforce’s Agentforce 360 Aims to Help Companies Escape ‘AI Pilot Purgatory’

Welcome to the era of the agentic enterprise. At this year’s Dreamforce event, Salesforce is unveiling Agentforce 360, a major upgrade to its agentic development platform. The company says it brings together humans, AI agents, apps, and data to help organizations forge stronger connections with customers, employees, and suppliers. “What we want to see is […]

Artificial Intelligence

Salesforce Buys Apromore to Give AI Agents a Map of Business Operations

Salesforce continues its shopping spree of AI startups to bolster its Agentforce platform. Today, the company is announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire process mapping firm Apromore. This is Salesforce’s sixth business it has purchased, and it plans to incorporate its expertise in process intelligence and optimization into its CRM platform. […]

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Salesforce’s Benioff Pushes the Agentic Enterprise, But Questions Loom Over Agentforce’s Impact

Marc Benioff is set to detail his bold vision on how he sees AI further transforming organizations—hopefully, he won’t have to scramble to rewrite it. At this year’s Dreamforce, Salesforce’s chief executive will introduce his definition of the “agentic enterprise,” a future in which humans and AI agents form a collaborative ecosystem inside organizations. “In […]

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Salesforce Sets the Stage for ITSM at Dreamforce

In a few weeks at its annual Dreamforce conference, Salesforce is expected to announce new AI-powered updates to its platform. While its Agentforce service will undoubtedly take center stage, the company will formally launch a new product that puts it further in direct competition with ServiceNow: Agentic IT Service. Talk of Salesforce’s IT service management […]

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Salesforce’s Agentforce Goes Live, Turning Up the Heat in the AI Agent Fight With Microsoft

Get ready for a proliferation of autonomous agents. Salesforce’s Agentforce platform is now generally available, publicly launching more than a month after its introduction. With it, the company is ushering in the democratization of sophisticated AI bots, providing a solution in which anyone can quickly develop AI agents that connect with their enterprise data and […]

Artificial Intelligence

Marc Benioff Wants to Break the AI ‘Hypnosis,’ Urges Vendors to ‘Let the Customer at It’

Surrounded by journalists and industry analysts, Salesforce’s outspoken chief executive, Marc Benioff, revealed a secret about this year’s Dreamforce keynote address: It was only completed the prior night after he scrapped an earlier speech three weeks ago. By the time he took the stage, Benioff hadn’t even rehearsed it before addressing 10,000 in-person attendees and […]

Enterprise

What Does Marc Benioff Really Have to Say About the Cloud at Dreamforce 2009?

This is a cross-blog post from Network Solution’s Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on November 18, 2009. I’m sitting here at the 2009 edition of the Dreamforce Conference to listen to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff discuss his thoughts about the cloud and any potential announcements he may have about […]