It’s been 14 months since Salesforce’s Circular Quay office was evacuated because of a sewage leak. But on Tuesday, the tech company’s Melbourne staff got a taste of what their Sydney compatriots endured back then. There was a distinct smell in its offices at 55 Collins Street, which is one of Mirvac’s prized towers and sits at the fancy end of Melbourne’s financial district, in the afternoon. Another sewage leak, it turned out, which again put a lift out of order. https://ww

Curative CEO and founder Fred Turner believes in the SaaSpocalypse. During an interview on the "20VC with Harry Stebbings" podcast, the health insurance executive was asked whether he bought the theory that software-as-a-service was dying. https://www.businessinsider.com/curative-ceo-salesforce-vibecode-crm-2026-7

Salesforce has announced an expanded partnership with Databricks to integrate AI agents more effectively within enterprise workflows [1]. This collaboration aims to address the critical challenge of connecting enterprise data with necessary context and security, a move that could reshape data management strategies across industries. https://futurumgroup.com/insights/salesforce-and-databricks-forge-new-ai-partnership-whats-at-stake/

Over the past two years, many enterprises have taken a maximalist approach to AI adoption — launching more use cases, onboarding more employees, deploying more agents, and consuming more tokens. For a new technology, this was rational. Enterprises did not yet know which workflows would be transformed, which models were reliable enough or which employees would adopt the tool. The fastest way to find out was to deploy as many agents and run as many pilots as possible to figure

Salesforce’s CEO, Marc Benioff, said the company was “all in on Agentforce” when it launched in 2024, but so far, only 34% of customers have adopted it. As a result, the company has lost more than $200 billion in market value, and analysts are saying Agentforce isn’t ready for prime time. So, are companies not interested in agentic AI, or just not ready for it? And what does that mean for marketers? https://martech.org/salesforces-woes-underline-marketings-agentic-ai-problems

Pricing uncertainty paired with enterprise data readiness, not a lack of enterprise interest, is slowing broader Agentforce adoption, analysts say. Salesforce’s AI agent platform, Agentforce, is seeing weaker-than-expected customer traction, according to a recent KeyBanc Capital Markets investment research note, which attributed the slowdown in part to the product itself, stating that “Agentforce, as a product, just isn’t there” yet, following customer checks and a CIO survey

As companies race to switch on AI agents inside Salesforce, Clavera is offering 13 of them a free, read-only Agent-Readiness X-Ray: a map of exactly what an AI agent would set off when it acts inside their org, before anything goes live. The only thing asked in return is honest feedback while the product matures. https://www.prlog.org/13158686-salesforce-agent-readiness-ray-offered-free-to-13-companies-as-ai-agents-reach-the-crm.html

Salesforce Inc (NYSE:CRM) is one of the best stocks to buy for the AI boom in the second half of 2026. Analysts project a 48% upside potential for Salesforce shares from the current price, and some 101 hedge funds have Salesforce stock in their portfolios. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/air-force-selects-salesforce-inc-185000854.html

Among the best email marketing platforms for enterprises, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next is our top pick for organizations looking to create more personalized customer experiences at scale. Built on Salesforce CRM and part of Agentforce Marketing (formerly Marketing Cloud), the platform brings together AI-powered email marketing, automation, customer data and cross-channel engagement in one highly customizable solution. Whether you’re nurturing leads, launching campaigns or

Salesforce’s flagship AI agent platform is struggling to convince customers of its value, according to an investment bank. The SaaS giant has bet the farm on AI agents, hoping they will fetch and carry data from its systems into a conversational UI, according to its vision of headless CRM. The cornerstone of the strategy is Agentforce, which the vendor promises will help customers build, test, deploy, manage, and orchestrate AI agents in the enterprise. https://www.theregiste