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Salesforce-owned Tableau doubles down on Seattle with lease renewal
Tableau, a visual analytics platform owned by the San Francisco-based tech giant Salesforce, will keep its office lease in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood. Salesforce said in a news release Monday it has renewed its lease for Data 1, a five-story office building at 744 N. 34th St. The new agreement will take effect after the current lease expires in 2029, indicating a reversal of the company’s plans to get rid of Tableau-occupied office space. https://www.seattletimes.com/busi
Joseph K
Jul 14
Salesforce’s Tableau renews Fremont office lease, signaling long-term Seattle commitment
Salesforce’s Tableau business has renewed its lease for roughly 114,000 square feet at the Data 1 office building in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, extending its long-term home in the city. The lease renewal takes effect after the current agreement expires in 2029, according to an announcement Monday first reported by the Puget Sound Business Journal. It marks the largest office lease renewal in Seattle this year. https://www.geekwire.com/2026/salesforces-tableau-renews-frem
Joseph K
Jul 14
Microsoft Maps Three Salesforce Attack Paths Tied to a Year of ShinyHunters Activity
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had already extended, usually through the OAuth connections that tie Salesforce to the apps and third-party vendors around it. https://thehackernews.com/2026/07/microsoft-maps-year-long-shinyhunters.html
Joseph K
Jul 14
Your Salesforce Document Process Is Probably Technical Debt
Most Salesforce orgs do not decide to build a manual document process. It happens by accident. A team needs a contract or a quote out the door, someone builds a template in Word and a rep starts filling in the fields by hand. The org keeps growing. New objects appear, new record types, new business units. That little manual step never gets revisited because it works and nobody owns it. https://hackernoon.com/your-salesforce-document-process-is-probably-technical-debt
Joseph K
Jul 14
AI Agents Will Expose the Weakest Links in Your Content Infrastructure
Customer-facing AI will test more than model quality. It will expose whether the organization's content, knowledge and governance systems are reliable enough for agents to retrieve from, reason over and speak from. https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/ai-agents-will-expose-the-weakest-links-in-your-content-infrastructure/
Joseph K
Jul 13
Salesforce (CRM) Is Putting $1 Billion Into AI In Switzerland
Salesforce, trading at $163.32 per share, is putting a clear spotlight on international AI expansion with this new Swiss commitment. For investors following NYSE:CRM, the decision to channel $1b into agentic AI and local development in Switzerland adds another layer to understanding how the company is positioning itself globally. The stock has declined 35.6% year to date and 36.2% over the past year, so fresh corporate actions like this can be useful context when assessing th
Joseph K
Jul 12
Salesforce Lands $13.5 Billion Air Force Fleet Deal as CRM Stock Seeks Turnaround Catalyst
Salesforce Inc. (CRM) has secured a high-profile contract with the US Air Force to overhaul management of its $13.5 billion vehicle fleet, a deal that underscores the software giant’s deepening push into the defense sector even as its stock wallows near 52-week lows. https://finance.biggo.com/news/343ce43f-c894-4e6c-97d8-34ea19fae4fd
Joseph K
Jul 11
Why Salesforce’s Headless Contentful Deal Is Bigger Than Content Management
Salesforce’s acquisition of Contentful signals a fundamental shift in how enterprises must think about content, positioning it as the operational infrastructure that powers AI-driven CX. As the boundaries between digital experience platforms, CRM systems, and contact centers intertwine, the future of customer engagement will depend on how effectively organizations can unify content, data, and logic into a single, intent-driven ecosystem. https://www.cxtoday.com/crm/salesf
Joseph K
Jul 10
How Salesforce is Transforming Patient Data Interoperability
Salesforce is tackling one of the healthcare industry’s most pressing needs. Its AI-powered "Agentforce for Healthcare" product suite aims to improve the interoperability of patient data and associated Electronic Health Records (EHRs). https://healthcare-digital.com/news/how-salesforce-is-transforming-patient-data-interoperability
Joseph K
Jul 10
Salesforce connects Slack to business data
Salesforce announced expansions to Headless 360, an architectural framework that lets AI agents interact with platforms without logging into a browser, allowing customers to access business data directly from Slack. This connects Salesforce CRM data, Tableau, Data 360 and AI agents with Slackbot via MCP servers. The MCP servers that connect Slack with these tools include access controls and guardrails to protect customer and company data while providing real-time insights....
Joseph K
Jul 10
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