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June 16, 2026

Hot Take: Salesforce Acquires Fin and Leaves Us Reading Between the Agentic Lines

Salesforce has announced its intent to acquire agentic unicorn, Fin. The pickup will bring a customer service focused frontier model into the AI Research fold while delivering an end-to-end customer agent focused on the full customer journey, regardless of functional ownership or individual mandate. ...
Liz Miller
Analyst Blog
June 15, 2026

The CEO’s AI Dashboard, Part 3: Data Readiness

Board Strategy
I want to move from business value to the condition that usually determines whether that value appears at all: data readiness. Enterprises still talk about data readiness as though it were a cleanup project. It is closer to an operating discipline. Good data helps. Clean data helps. The right data, in the right place, ...
Esteban Kolsky
Analyst Blog
May 05, 2024

Monday's Musing: When The Hunters Become The Hunted

Data to Decisions
lt;pgt;Expect Software Giant Hunters To Soon Be The Hunted In A Digital Giant's Quest For Growthlt;/pgt; lt;pgt;Six of the Magnificent Seven (Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet ...
R "Ray" Wang
Analyst Blog
May 03, 2024

Tableau and Salesforce Eye Next Wave of Analytics and BI

Data to Decisions
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Doug Henschen