SharkNinja embarks on its Salesforce AI journey

“You can’t keep adding bodies. That math does not work,” said Velia Carboni, CIO with appliance company SharkNinja. “The unlock with Agentforce versus historical chatbots will be authenticity. Agentforce gives us that opportunity. It feels more personal, more like a dialogue than a black-and-white ‘I ask this question, I get that answer.’” AI agents, assistants,…

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Salesforce unveils integrated ecommerce storefronts

Salesforce will offer integrated ecommerce storefronts within its Starter and Pro Suites, all-in-one offerings that span marketing, sales, service and now commerce. Features include low-code setup for branded storefronts and tools to manage products and prices. The new offering is available immediately but only to customers in the United States. Why we care. Some small…

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Why AI’s agents and commodification are good news for marketers

This year’s Dreamforce and Inbound user conferences were all about AI agents. “When we look back at this event years from now, you’re going to remember it as the year of AI agents,” said HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah.  “The only thing we’re going to do at Salesforce is AgentForce,” said CEO Marc Benioff….

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Salesforce to buy enterprise knowledge platform Zoomin

Salesforce today announced it is buying Zoomin, an enterprise knowledge platform. This is the third company Salesforce has purchased this month following its acquisitions of Own and Tenyx. Zoomin processes unstructured data from across an organization to provide personalized and automated service interactions at all interaction points, including home portals, websites, support centers, customer service…

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AI-powered martech news and releases: September 19

This is the second year that Salesforce’s Dreamforce and HubSpot’s Inbound conferences happened in the same week. That is, unless you ask Google’s Gemini, which told me 2024 is the first time. This is ironic and/or funny given the “AI is everything” theme of both conferences. The word from both events is agents, and that…

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Salesforce launches new, ‘more trustworthy’ generation of AI bots

Yesterday, Salesforce launched Agentforce — generative AI bots the company says can be trusted to take action on their own.  Agentforce is “the third wave of AI — advancing beyond copilots to a new era of highly accurate, low-hallucination intelligent agents that actively drive customer success,” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said during the press conference….

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Measuring customer acquisition cost: Best of the MarTechBot

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content. I am the first generative…

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AI and security are the focus of latest Salesforce acquisitions

Salesforce announced Thursday it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Own Company for $1.9 billion in cash. Own, which provides data protection and data management solutions, will help Salesforce accelerate the growth of its Platform Data Security, Privacy, and Compliance products, the company said in a release. The two companies are not strangers to each…

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