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Authorised AI agents will now be able to call Salesforce functions across clouds with existing permissions, reducing the need for custom integrations.
The upgrade lets analysts query more than 400 billion public data points directly in a single graph, easing joins with private data.
Users of Panopto's video platform can now query archives in plain language and turn recordings into quizzes, boosting learning and analytics.
Customers can now buy Simform's data modernisation tool through Microsoft Marketplace, with purchases counting towards Azure spending commitments.
The hire comes as APJ customers accelerate AI deployment, raising demand for identity controls to manage human and machine access safely.
Businesses will be able to share AI models and unstructured data across clouds and on-premises systems without custom integrations.
Non-developers are driving Codex growth, prompting OpenAI to add business plugins and a preview for shareable internal sites.
Poor data quality is forcing finance teams to seek more traceable inputs for AI and reporting as OneStream adds a Snowflake link.
The new feature is meant to curb conflicting AI and analytics outputs by keeping business terms and metrics in one governed layer across platforms.
The update broadens Codex beyond coding, as non-developers use it faster than engineers for reports, dashboards and client materials.
Enterprises will get tighter AI controls as Snowflake adds blocking policies, multi-party authorisation and new agentic tools at Summit.
The update could save sales staff hours on admin by letting Slackbot log calls, update CRM records and trigger workflows from chat.
Sales teams will soon be able to query live Salesforce data inside Claude as the pair deepen an AI tie-up across CRM and Slack.
Fragmented banking, payments and accounting data is slowing reporting and weakening AI answers for businesses trying to act in real time.
Indian SMBs can go live in four to six weeks as Salesforce bundles sales, chat and analytics tools with setup support.
Staff can now pull member data in plain English after Corning Credit Union cut wait times from weeks to near-instant ad hoc searches.
Smaller firms in India could cut manual work and unify sales, messaging and reporting within six weeks under the new bundled offer.
Students will gain hands-on AI and CRM training from first year under a new degree designed to meet rising employer demand for data skills.
The update should cut manual access approvals and give organisations clearer reporting from their security systems, while improving accessibility.
Businesses risk buying polished dashboards that still cannot reason across documents, rules and warehouse data when AI is bolted on.
