With investor enthusiasm for AI beginning to fade, Salesforce is shifting focus to its next AI wave, “Agentforce,” which will be showcased at the Dreamforce customer conference. This announcement comes at a time when Salesforce stock has underperformed, with revenue growth slowing and expectations building that AI-related revenue may not materialize until 2025. Salesforce and
Salesforce is launching its AI-powered Agentforce platform across its key clouds, including Sales, Service, Marketing, and Commerce. However, a significant question remains: Will enterprises be willing to pay $2 per conversation for Agentforce, especially without volume discounts? The introduction of Agentforce wasn’t unexpected, as CEO Marc Benioff has been discussing autonomous AI agents since the
Salesforce has launched Industries AI, a comprehensive suite of AI tools tailored for specific industries, including government and related public-sector fields. This initiative integrates AI use case libraries into Salesforce’s 15 industry clouds, covering sectors such as public sector, energy and utilities, healthcare, education, and communications. Kristin Ruiz, Deputy CIO of the U.S. Transportation Security
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the bipartisan BIOSECURE Act, targeting Chinese biotech firms such as WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics as national security risks. The legislation restricts American companies from partnering with these firms, potentially disrupting the drug supply chain. Bipartisan SupportThe bill passed with a strong majority of 306-81, garnering support from
Healthcare leaders are increasingly optimistic about the transformative potential of AI and data analytics in the industry, according to a new market research report by Arcadia and The Harris Poll. The report, titled “The Healthcare CIO’s Role in the Age of AI,” reveals that 96% of healthcare executives believe AI adoption can provide a competitive
Slack has introduced a personality quiz, inspired by BuzzFeed-style formats, to understand how modern office workers interact with AI tools. Based on a survey of 5,000 full-time desk workers across six countries, the quiz categorizes users into five distinct groups based on their engagement with generative AI. From “The Rebel” to “The Maximalist,” these personas
Salesforce has introduced two advanced AI models—xGen-Sales and xLAM—designed to enhance its Agentforce platform, which seamlessly integrates human agents with autonomous AI for greater business efficiency. xGen-Sales, a proprietary AI model, is tailored for sales tasks such as generating customer insights, summarizing calls, and managing pipelines. By automating routine sales activities, it enables sales teams
Fueled by the availability of chatbot interfaces like Chat-GPT, generative AI has become a key focus across various industries, including healthcare. Many electronic health record (EHR) vendors are integrating the technology to streamline administrative workflows, allowing clinicians to focus more on patient care. Whether you see EHR adoption as easy or challenging, the Impact of
Cloud Computing in Healthcare: Ensuring HIPAA Compliance Amid Growing Adoption As healthcare organizations increasingly turn to cloud computing for scalable and accessible IT services, ensuring HIPAA compliance remains a top priority. The global healthcare cloud computing market is projected to grow from $53.8 billion in 2024 to $120.6 billion by 2029, according to a MarketsandMarkets
Salesforce has introduced the Agentforce Atlas Reasoning Engine, a platform designed to perform tasks autonomously with minimal human intervention. Agentforce to the Team changes everything about AI. Businesses can feed the engine data, assign tasks, and step away, as the system is capable of completing work independently. This launch closely follows OpenAI’s recent advancements in
As AI-driven chatbots enter college courses, the potential to offer students 24/7 support is game-changing. However, there’s a critical caveat: when we customize chatbots by uploading documents, we don’t just add knowledge — we introduce biases. The documents we choose influence chatbot responses, subtly shaping how students interact with course material and, ultimately, how they
Salesforce has introduced Industries AI, a suite of foundational, pre-built, and customizable AI capabilities designed to address specific industry needs and challenges. This innovation aims to help customers quickly realize value by automating tasks such as matching patients to clinical trials, providing proactive maintenance alerts for vehicles and machinery, streamlining inventory management, and enhancing services
Salesforce Inc. has announced a significant upgrade with the launch of Industries AI, a new automation platform designed to handle a wide range of time-consuming tasks, enhancing productivity across various sectors. We are NOT advocating that the next war will be fought with AI Bots. We aren’t even suggesting there is anything negative about these
Salesforce has introduced new AI-powered field service capabilities designed to streamline operations for dispatchers, technicians, and field service leaders. Leveraging the Salesforce platform and Data Cloud, these innovations aim to expedite time-consuming processes and enhance customer satisfaction by making field service operations more proactive and efficient. Why it matters: Field service teams currently spend only
Industry forecasts predict an annual growth rate of 6% to 7%, fueled by innovations in cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and data engineering. In 2023, the global data analytics market was valued at approximately $41 billion and is expected to surge to $118.5 billion by 2029, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.1%.
