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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Companies are coming back to Salesforce after testing solutions from AI startups like Sierra AI and Decagon AI, and after trying DIY AI
60% confidenceFlex Credit revenues expected to start ramping in fiscal year 2027 for new agentic offerings on outcome-based pricing
60% confidenceLLM costs will weigh on gross margins, but Salesforce can secure volume discounts and expects costs per token to come down over time
60% confidenceSalesforce is well-positioned to win in the new agentic layer due to customer data context, existing systems of work, Atlas Reasoning Engine for workflow orchestration, and engagement layer through Slack
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, as AI can help drive acceleration in demand for core platform and provides opportunities to extend use cases and reach through development simplification
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% confidenceFlex Credit revenues are expected to start ramping up in fiscal year 2027 for new agentic offerings, which will be outcome-based
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 benefits from customer data and metadata context, resulting in better and more accurate outcomes for agentic AI
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% confidenceLLM providers appear more focused on disrupting applications market than entering data platform market
60% confidenceSome customers already replacing third-party point solution functionality by running workflows directly in Snowflake
60% confidenceIntegrated data model across HCM and Finance provides advantage as company increasingly sells the full suite
60% confidenceAI native revenues are likely less than 2% of total revenues but may have already helped drive the Q4 beat
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 in second half, charged on consumption basis based on data amount
60% confidenceSalesforce has not seen any mass piping of data out of Salesforce to date
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% confidenceMargin targets may be lowered as company focuses on accelerating top-line growth and ensuring product portfolio is relevant in upcoming Agentic AI world
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% confidenceWorkday's integrated data model across HCM and Finance provides advantage as it increasingly sells the full suite
60% confidenceSalesforce's 27 years of operational CRM data embedded within its systems of record provides advantage versus both startup competitors and DIY approaches
60% confidenceCompanies are returning to Salesforce after testing solutions from AI startups like Sierra AI and Decagon AI, and after trying DIY AI using OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs
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% confidenceNew customer growth is slower as some industries have slowed, including SLED, Healthcare, and parts of retail
60% confidenceIntegrated data model across HCM and Finance provides advantage as company increasingly sells full suite
60% confidence
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| Snowflake Inc. · gross margin target | 75 percent |