Salesforce Is Consuming Everything Between AI And Itself (NYSE:CRM) | Seeking Alpha

Salesforce just posted $11.1 billion in quarterly revenue. Let that number sit for a second.

They got there partly by acquiring Informatica — a data integration company — which tells you exactly where their head is at. They're building a bigger platform empire, not a better tool for your team.

When a company that size makes a move like that, the product roadmap stops being about your workflow and starts being about justifying a $11B quarter to Wall Street. Every new feature, every AI announcement, every "innovation" gets filtered through what moves their stock — not what saves your ops team two hours on Monday morning.

If you've been burned by a Salesforce implementation before, this news isn't surprising. It's the same pattern: more acquisitions, more complexity, more consultant hours just to make sense of it all. The platform grows; your frustration grows with it.

At some point, bigger stops meaning better for the people actually running accounts, managing pipelines, and trying to get clean data out of the thing before a board meeting.

The companies that win aren't the ones running the most sophisticated CRM — they're the ones running a CRM that actually fits how they sell.

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CRM delivered 13% YoY revenue growth to $11.1 billion, aided by the Informatica acquisition, and expanded GAAP operating margin by 130 bps. Management ...