BNP highlights bullish takeaways on agentic AI, growth in meetings with Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake
View original at seekingalpha.comBNP highlights bullish takeaways on agentic AI, growth in meetings with Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake [Humans are using laptops and computers to interact with AI, helping them create, code, train AI, or analyze big data with fast, cutting-edge technology.] BNP Paribas highlighted key takeaways, including agentic AI, g…
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Snowflake is committed to maintaining product gross margins at 75% this year despite AI products creating some gross margin headwind
60% confidenceSalesforce believes it is well-positioned to be a winner in the new agentic layer due to having customer context, systems of work, Atlas Reasoning Engine for agency, and engagement layer with Slack
60% confidenceCompetition from Databricks is not new and competitive fears appear to have died down from their peak a couple of years ago
60% confidenceData Cloud offering expected to ramp up in second half, charged on consumption basis based on amount of data
60% confidenceSnowflake is a key beneficiary of AI, with opportunities to drive acceleration in core platform demand and extend use cases and reach through development simplification
60% confidenceRevenue growth acceleration should be visible in H2, potentially as early as Q3
60% confidenceAI provides opportunity to increase accessibility of technologies to more business users beyond just business and data analysts through tools like Cortex Code
60% confidenceIf successful with new initiatives, second-half bookings should show improvement, potentially leading to revenue growth inflection in FY2027
60% confidenceSalesforce's marketing business will stabilize with new product functionality ramping, but Commerce is taking longer to demonstrate improvements due to competitive pressures and competing for R&D resources with AI areas
60% confidenceSnowflake is committed to maintaining product gross margins at 75% this year despite AI product gross margin headwinds
60% confidenceCompany has not seen any mass piping of data out of Salesforce
60% confidenceMargin targets may be lowered as company focuses on accelerating top-line growth and ensuring product portfolio relevance in agentic AI world
60% confidenceWorkday is returning to an organic product focus with a goal of delivering revenue growth acceleration, potentially resulting in improved Bookings growth in H2 FY'27 and revenue growth acceleration in FY'28
60% confidenceAI native revenues are likely less than 2% of total revenues but may have already helped drive the Q4 beat
60% confidenceLLM companies appear more focused on disrupting the applications market rather than entering data platform market
60% confidenceMarketing business will stabilize with new product functionality ramping, but Commerce taking longer to demonstrate improvements due to competitive pressures and R&D resource allocation
60% confidenceWorkday Data Cloud offering is expected to ramp up in the second half and will be charged on consumption basis based on amount of data
60% confidenceSnowflake is committed to maintaining product gross margins at 75% this year despite AI product margin headwind
60% confidenceIf successful with new initiatives, second-half bookings should show improvement, potentially delivering revenue growth inflection in fiscal year 2027
60% confidenceAI is an opportunity to increase accessibility of Snowflake technologies to more business users beyond just business and data analysts by putting tools like CoCo in people's hands
60% confidenceCompany has not seen any mass piping of data out of Salesforce to date
60% confidenceWorkday's integrated data model across HCM and Finance provides advantage as it increasingly sells the full suite
60% confidenceCustomers finding value in using Snowflake's own coding tool for data operations because it better identifies patterns and context within Snowflake data while benefiting from Snowflake security and governance
60% confidenceWorkday used to generate 60% of growth through existing customer base and 40% through new customers, but new customer growth is now slower
60% confidenceSalesforce is doing all of the right things, but the share price will not likely react until Salesforce can demonstrate stability in its core business and demonstrate continued success and adoption of Agentforce along with Data Cloud
60% confidenceWorkday prices initial contracts based on customer employee base size with three-year minimum commitment, with renewals reflecting business growth, CPI inflation, and new functionality
60% confidence27 years of operational CRM data embedded within systems of record provides advantage versus new competitors
60% confidenceSnowflake is a key beneficiary of AI, as AI can help drive acceleration in demand for core platform and provides opportunities to extend use cases and reach through development simplification
60% confidenceNew customer growth is slower as some industries have slowed, including SLED, Healthcare, and parts of retail
60% confidenceFlex Credit revenues are expected to start ramping up in fiscal year 2027 for new agentic offerings, which will be outcome-based
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| Snowflake Inc. · gross margin target | 75 percent |