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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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% confidenceWorkday used to generate 60% of growth through existing customer base and 40% through new customers, but new customer growth has slowed in SLED, Healthcare, and retail sectors
60% confidence27 years of operational CRM data embedded within systems of record provides advantage versus new competitors
60% confidenceWorkday is returning to organic product focus with goal of delivering revenue growth acceleration, potentially improving Bookings growth in H2 FY'27 and revenue growth acceleration in FY'28
60% confidenceSome customers already replacing third-party point solution application functionality by running workflows directly in Snowflake
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% confidenceSnowflake is committed to maintaining product gross margins at 75% this year despite AI product margin headwind
60% confidenceSome customers are already replacing third-party point solution application functionality by running workflows directly in Snowflake
60% confidenceCompetition from Databricks is not new, and competitive fears appear to have died down from their peak a couple of years ago
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% confidenceCompany has not seen any mass piping of data out of Salesforce to date
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% confidenceSalesforce is doing all of the right things, but the share price will not likely react until Salesforce can demonstrate stability in its core business and demonstrate continued success and adoption of Agentforce along with Data Cloud
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% confidence27 years of operational CRM data embedded within systems of record provides advantage versus new competitors
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 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% confidenceNew customer growth is slower as some industries have slowed, including SLED, Healthcare, and parts of retail
60% confidenceLLM costs will weigh on gross margins, but Salesforce can secure volume discounts and expects costs per token to decline over time
60% confidenceMarketing business will stabilize with new product functionality ramping, but Commerce taking longer to improve due to competitive pressures and R&D resource allocation to AI
60% confidenceCompany has not seen any mass piping of data out of Salesforce
60% confidenceMargin targets may be lowered as company focuses on accelerating top-line growth and ensuring product portfolio relevance in agentic AI world
60% confidenceAI native is likely less than 2% of revenues but may have already helped drive the beat in Q4
60% confidenceSnowflake 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% confidenceIntegrated data model across HCM and Finance provides advantage as company increasingly sells the full suite
60% confidenceLLM companies like Anthropic and OpenAI appear more focused on disrupting the applications market rather than entering the data platform market
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| Snowflake Inc. · gross margin target | 75 percent |