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Salesforce's data platform (formerly Data Cloud), which unifies, catalogs, and governs enterprise data to feed Agentforce and other AI/analytics tools.
Salesforce Data 360 instruments about eight million Spark runs a day at one submission gateway, without changing application code. The plugin fails open, so a broken collector leaves the platform team a data gap to chase while customer jobs keep running.
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Agentforce and Data 360 annual recurring revenue is real and it recurs. Almost everything else in the quarter landed within a rounding error of consensus, or came from paper marks.
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ServiceTitan switched off Podium's integration after nine years and, SaaStr says, kept essentially every shared account. Inside Salesforce's quarter, the data segment added $730 million and the record segment about $450 million.
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The Dreamforce release says every AIforce request runs on the permissions already configured in Salesforce and every action routes back through it. The reading it enables spans hundreds of records at once, and the page layout is gone.
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At Dreamforce 2026 the company said Model Context Protocol will carry its context and actions into both hyperscalers' agent products, while AWS agents move into Slack. The connector work becomes a scoping job.
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Alex Smith's team pushed the joins, the identity resolution and the access-pattern design into Data 360 graphs, so an Agentforce agent can pass a tenant ID and get customer context back in one call.
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Salesforce put Data 360, Informatica, MuleSoft, Tableau, Agentforce and Guardian under one new control plane on Thursday. The loops that run agents inside its own tools still belong to Mastra and the Claude Agent SDK.
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A 23% one-day move rewarded an EPS figure that doubled while operating income stayed flat, and the arithmetic behind it runs through a $2,613M investment mark-up and 141 million shares retired on borrowed money.
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The close hands an application vendor the catalog, lineage and master data plumbing that agentic AI depends on, which leaves customers whose pipelines terminate outside Salesforce needing a dated roadmap answer from their account team.
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If cheap intelligence pushes value to whoever owns the data agents cannot work without, then Salesforce's quarter is the first real test of that screen. It is a smaller test than the $2 trillion it is being asked to explain.
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cRPO of $33.5bn, up 14%, is the metric the market trades on. $440m of Informatica revenue now sits inside the subscription line that feeds it. Back out the current portion and the remainder grew about 8%.
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Strip out the $2.53 a share that came from strategic investment gains and Salesforce's adjusted earnings grew about 16% per share on a share count 15% smaller. That is a decent software quarter, not a doubled one.
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Contracted revenue due in the next twelve months grew 14%, faster than the full book. But the $200 million guidance raise is, arithmetically, the two pending acquisitions.
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A $25 billion accelerated repurchase, funded with new debt, was the biggest capital decision of the quarter. The guidance arithmetic puts second-half organic growth about where the first quarter left it.
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Fourth-quarter revenue grew 12 percent with $399 million of it acquired, and Agentforce ARR reached $800 million. The CFO's actual promise is organic reacceleration in the second half of FY27.
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