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John DiFucci upgraded both to Buy purely on valuation, writing explicitly that he is "not upgrading because we see [ServiceNow] as an AI beneficiary," and calling near-term AI monetization "unlikely to materialize." Morgan Stanley cut Salesforce to equal-weight July 21 with a target slashed from $287 to $185. Monness Crespi & Hardt upgraded Workday to Buy at $150 after a ~45% drawdown. Nobody is arguing incumbents win on AI. The bulls are arguing the disruption is already priced in, which is a much weaker thesis than the sector rebound implies. (CNBC)
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24/7 Wall St. tracked Workday +10%, ServiceNow +8%, Salesforce +7%, Adobe and Palantir each +7%, triggered by NVIDIA and AMD dropping 5-7% on a report that NVIDIA is guaranteeing OpenAI data-center financing. The context matters more than the day: Salesforce is still down 33%...
Per-seat pricing is breaking everywhere at once. Not in one vertical, not as an experiment. Across CRM, ITSM, HR, and support simultaneously. Salesforce booked roughly $800M in agent revenue last quarter, up from $540M the quarter before. That's not a pilot line item. ServiceN...
Salesforce did it. Then SAP did it. Now ServiceNow. Something's happening. The three largest enterprise software companies by market cap all confirmed pricing transitions away from per-seat licensing in the same quarter. This isn't incremental. This is the death certificate fo...
Anthropic's 11 Claude Cowork plugins spanning legal, sales, finance, data analysis, marketing, support, and product management erased over $200B in market cap in a single day. Thomson Reuters dropped 16% (biggest single-day loss ever), LegalZoom -20%, Salesforce -7%, ServiceNo...
In the same 30-day window: Salesforce launched Agentforce per-action pricing at $0.10/action ($800M ARR, 22K deals); Workday cratered 10% despite beating earnings on "seat compression" fears; Intercom Fin went standalone at $0.99 per resolution; Anthropic's Cowork legal plugin...
Parnassus CIO Todd Ahlsten argued Salesforce and ServiceNow face structural pressure because AI lets customers grow output without hiring the employees who needed licenses. The counter-evidence both offer is real: Salesforce says its ten heaviest Agentforce users grew total sp...
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