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Salesforce Set the Tone for the WHOLE Saas Industry

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Salesforce’s earnings are due to be revealed after the close of the market on Wednesday, and the whole SaaS market will be bracing itself for a call that will “set the tone” for the entire industry, which has been buckling under fears of AI replacing it. More cautious guidance could have a compounding effect on the ‘SaaSpocalypse’ narrative. Industry peers like Workday have already shown that the market can be quite unforgiving at this very sensitive time for software. Salesforce has to shake the doom-mongers. This earnings call is the time to do it. Prefer reading? Check out the full post here: https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-will-set-the-tone-for-the-whole-saas-industry-in-q4-earnings-tonight/ Follow us on our socials! 📱 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/saleforceben Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/salesforceben Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/salesforceben #salesforce #Salesforce2026 #technews #dataanalytics #cloudcomputing #CRMFuture #crm #earnings

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In this video, I break down Salesforce’s Q4 and full-year fiscal 2026 earnings and why this call really does “set the tone” for the wider SaaS market—especially with the whole “SaaSpocalypse” narrative doing the rounds. Marc Benioff leaned into it with the Sasquatch line (“eating the SaaS apocalypse”) and reminded everyone this isn’t his first downturn (2008, COVID, etc.). But jokes aside, the key question is whether Salesforce can prove AI isn’t just hype—and that it’s translating into real, scalable adoption. The headline for me was Agentforce momentum: 29,000 Agentforce deals (up 50% quarter-over-quarter) and Agentforce ARR hitting $800M, up from $540M at the end of Q3—an explosive one-quarter jump. Salesforce also talked about nearly 20 trillion tokens consumed and 2.4B “agentic work units” across Agentforce and Slack, plus Agentforce + Data 360 ARR over $2.9B (noting that includes Informatica’s Cloud ARR). The catch? Fiscal 2027 revenue guidance came in below Wall Street expectations, which means the market may still stay cautious—even if, in a tough SaaS environment, these numbers are arguably stronger than they look at first glance.

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