Salesforce's Benioff: 'This must be the year of Data Cloud'

Makes light of customer's AI bungle, as Q4 profits up 10%

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Salesforce's Benioff: 'This must be the year of Data Cloud'
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Salesforce's Benioff: 'This must be the year of Data Cloud'

Salesforce CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff made the case for his company being best positioned to deliver trusted enterprise artificial intelligence, his at times fiery language during a fourth-quarter earnings call contrasting with Salesforce forecasts of decelerating growth in the upcoming fiscal 2025.

During Wednesday's earnings call for the San Francisco-based provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software - where company executives reported results for the fiscal 2024 fourth quart...

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