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BNP highlights bullish takeaways on agentic AI, growth in meetings with Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake

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BNP 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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  • Salesforce benefits from customer data and metadata context, resulting in better and more accurate outcomes for agentic AI

    60% confidence
  • Salesforce'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% confidence
  • Customers are finding value in using Snowflake's own coding tool for data operations because it is better at identifying patterns and context within Snowflake data while benefiting from Snowflake security and governance controls

    60% confidence
  • Snowflake is committed to maintaining product gross margins at 75% this year despite AI product gross margin headwinds

    60% confidence
  • Workday 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% confidence
  • LLM providers appear more focused on disrupting applications market than entering data platform market

    60% confidence
  • AI native is likely less than 2% of revenues but may have already helped drive the beat in Q4

    60% confidence
  • Snowflake is a key beneficiary of AI, which can help drive acceleration in demand for core platform and provides opportunities to extend use cases and reach through development simplification

    60% confidence
  • Competition from Databricks is not new, and competitive fears appear to have died down from their peak a couple of years ago

    60% confidence
  • Data Cloud offering expected to ramp in second half, charged on consumption basis based on data amount

    60% confidence
  • Salesforce has not seen any mass piping of data out of Salesforce to date

    60% confidence
  • LLM companies appear more focused on disrupting the applications market rather than entering data platform market

    60% confidence
  • Marketing 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% confidence
  • Some customers already replacing third-party point solution application functionality by running workflows directly in Snowflake

    60% confidence
  • Margin targets may be lowered as company focuses on accelerating top-line growth and ensuring product portfolio is relevant in upcoming Agentic AI world

    60% confidence
  • Snowflake is committed to maintaining product gross margins at 75% this year despite AI product margin headwind

    60% confidence
  • If successful with new initiatives, second-half bookings should show improvement, potentially delivering revenue growth inflection in fiscal year 2027

    60% confidence
  • AI 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% confidence
  • Workday is returning to an organic product focus with a goal of delivering revenue growth acceleration, which may result in improved Bookings growth in H2 FY'27 and revenue growth acceleration in FY'28

    60% confidence
  • Company has not seen any mass piping of data out of Salesforce to date

    60% confidence
  • AI native revenue is likely less than 2% but may have already helped drive Q4 beat

    60% confidence
  • Workday's integrated data model across HCM and Finance provides advantage as it increasingly sells the full suite

    60% confidence
  • LLM companies like Anthropic and OpenAI appear more focused on disrupting the applications market rather than entering the data platform market

    60% confidence
  • Salesforce's 27 years of operational CRM data embedded within its systems of record provides advantage versus both startup competitors and DIY approaches

    60% confidence
  • Snowflake is committed to maintaining product gross margins at 75% this year despite AI products creating some gross margin headwind

    60% confidence
  • Salesforce 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% confidence
  • Competition from Databricks is not new and competitive fears appear to have died down from their peak a couple of years ago

    60% confidence
  • Companies are coming back to Salesforce after testing solutions from AI startups like Sierra AI and Decagon AI, and after trying DIY AI

    60% confidence
  • Data Cloud offering expected to ramp up in second half, charged on consumption basis based on amount of data

    60% confidence
  • Snowflake 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% confidence

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