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I am seeing a pattern. Last time I looked at how Oracle’s generative AI is integrating into a variety of front- and back-office work areas like supply chain, HR, and, of course, CRM. Today, I want to examine Salesforce’s recently announced AI enhancements for its Field Service Suite. The pattern...

Oracle has announced 50 new generative AI apps for its application suite that embed into existing business workflows across finance, supply chain, HR, sales, marketing, and service, as well as an expansion of the Oracle Guided Journeys’ extensibility. It seems like good stuff, but it also neatly d...

Applying AI to customer service as a test case does have some advantages. Customers are different from sales prospects. A prospect can ghost you, but a customer has a need to make things work both product-wise and throughout the relationship.

2023 will go down as the year that ChatGPT and other large language model generative AI tools hit the ground running, which put most CRM vendors in a full sprint to catch the newest wave. It also put some of us into a tizzy about the future of human life.

What a difference a decade makes. It seems only about that long ago that vendors were wrestling with providing the rudiments of automated triage for customer service. It was not often pretty, but they kept at it. Good thing, too.

Recently, Oracle and Microsoft jointly announced a cooperative pact to interoperate several of each other’s products to support Bing searches and other applications. The questions I have include whether this is significant and, if so, what it says about the future of CRM.

Navigating the transition from CRM 2.0 to CRM 3.0 requires a focus on ethics and proactive problem-solving, paralleling trends in modern medicine. Some CRM vendors, like Salesforce, are trying to instill the idea.

Last week, I was all over Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) like a junkyard dog. In the quarter-mile race that is the software industry, I have to say that from a standing start, Oracle has done quite well.

Even at this early point in the AI era, we may be seeing a divergence. On one side, we can easily see vendors bending over backward to deliver ethical AI apps and services, and on the other, a real conundrum. I

Oracle is announcing that it has added AI in critical spots like Intelligent Sales Orchestration, Guided Campaigns, AI-Powered Account Linking, and more. All of it is intended to help sellers do the right things with the right customers at the right time.

Salesforce is coming very close to being able to say that regardless of what incumbent software vendors are already in a business's portfolio, Salesforce should be there, too.

What’s been missing in the losing contest against "bad social" has been an ability to chase down misinformation to the root and to overpower it with truth. That’s exactly what AI can do.

A preview of Oracle's CloudWorld, exploring AI advancements, kinetic data, and how emerging tech could reshape industries and create new opportunities.

Salesforce tees up Dreamforce 2023 in San Francisco next week. While it's a reincarnation of past events that took place without facemasks, much has changed in the last few years, both for the company and almost everything else in our culture. Some good, some not so much.

The latest entry-level offering that provides all-in-one functionality is called Salesforce Starter. It seems like a good first step for a small business, but especially for small businesses that want to get large.

Last week's announcements from Oracle mark a revolution in hardware unseen since the standardization of the PC, making hardware sexy again.

When something doesn’t work out, for whatever reason, it’s essential for the customer to be able to disengage cleanly. If some businesses can’t make that model work, well, that’s all part of creative destruction, and they need to fail.

This is the year everything CRM changes, thanks to AI. It's going to take some time to absorb something as powerful and manifold as AI, and we shouldn't expect instant change. That's why I'm sticking my neck out to say that understanding AI might just be the work of a generation.

Examining the transition from the CRM-dominated tech landscape to a future shaped by AI, let's navigate the challenges, security concerns, and opportunities that lie ahead.

The Trusted AI Layer that Salesforce is aggressively building and deploying is significantly different from the AI and large learning model (LLM) approach that much of the industry relies on today.