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Het Amerikaanse leger heeft in de nacht van woensdag op donderdag nieuwe aanvallen uitgevoerd in Iran. Dat meldt persbureau Reuters op basis van een anonieme Amerikaanse functionaris. De aanvallen gebeurden terwijl de VS en Iran in onderhandeling zijn over een vredesakkoord.

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Salesforce's decapitated response to the SaaS-pocalypse has quickly won adoption, as Headless 360 – which allows customers to access all of their Salesforce data from Cursor, WhatsApp, ChatGPT, Claude, or a terminal – has processed 4.5 million MCP calls, and a nearly a trillion API calls, since launching at Trailhead DX in April, CEO Mark Benioff said on Wednesday. “It's going to lead implementations, drive consumption, more actions, more workflow, more data, more intelligence, all compounding across Salesforce. We're meeting our customers where they are,” Benioff said during the company’s first quarter 2027 earnings call. “With Headless 360, Indeed is building and deploying Agentforce agents right from Cursor.” Salesforce chief revenue officer Miguel Milano said the real breakthrough wasn't for builders but for knowledge workers, because they can now access Salesforce through Slack, Claude Cowork, or other tools in their daily flow without context-switching into a separate app. “We're going to bring our number one agentic CRM to every surface, meeting customers where they are, and we're going to work together with our customers and with our partners to find the right ways to, in a fair way, to monetize those new interactions and those new uses are accessing our platform," he said during the call. Headless 360 attempts to expand Salesforce's addressable market into areas it's never previously entered. Milano said it is a fourth monetization vector beyond seat upgrades, new user pockets, and flex credits — though he said they're still working with customers and partners to figure out the right pricing for the new headless interactions. Milano gave two customer stories. Adecco, a staffing company, had been building recruiter agents with outside AI labs that needed to pull data from Salesforce. He said when Headless 360 launched, they called and asked if those external agents could now access the platform natively. “Are you saying that now these agents that we are building outside Agentforce can also leverage Salesforce?” Milano said. “And we said, ‘Exactly.’ “ Milano's second example was Anthropic, which he described as one of Salesforce's biggest users of CRM, Sales Cloud, and Slack. He said Anthropic’s Sales Cloud usage with Salesforce grew fivefold in Q1 because employees started accessing it through Claude Cowork and Slack rather than logging in directly. “Sales Cloud has become more prominent and more strategic for them than ever, because of headless,” Milano said. Analysts questioned whether making Salesforce data available from multiple platforms outside of Salesforce’s native app may abstract the value of the product. Salesforce chief marketing officer Patrick Stokes said on the contrary, customers still need and rely on the data that is inside the platform, even if they don’t need the UI. “What's so exciting about headless is two things: one, it's having a real impact on making it easier to implement with Salesforce, so building out with Salesforce has now become easier than ever because we've seen these coding agents Claude and Codex from from Open AI, as you use these things, what you realize is you need to be able to connect the underlying APIs which you do through this layer that's MCP, and if you can connect those into the coding agents, it makes it faster than ever to implement and deploy Salesforce,” he said. Stokes said customers aren't using coding agents to replicate Salesforce capabilities themselves. Instead, they want to consume Salesforce in more ways and get more value from it — plugging MCP servers into ChatGPT, Claude, or Slack rather than logging into discrete applications. Salesforce president and chief engineering and customer success officer Srini Tallapragada said this is part of a trend the company is seeing where customers still rely on the architecture, the data, the compliance, and the security they find in Salesforce, but they want to access the data from where they are working. To prove this point, he said in addition to the millions of calls to Salesforce headless MCP server since it launched, Slack’s headless MCP server has seen between 30 to 50 million tool calls from customers, which also represents a new avenue for Salesforce to monetize. “We want to capture value wherever the work is happening, and that's the conversation we are having with our customers, and as we talk to our customers, ISV partners, and all," he said. "We'll figure out the right value. So, I think it's a new monetization area for us.” Compared to the previous earnings call, where Benioff cited 200 new deals and name checked three ServiceNow take outs, Salesforce's chief SaaSquatch was relatively muted about its nascent ITSM rivalry with ServiceNow. He noted that anti-virus firm McAfee left ServiceNow for Salesforce Agentforce ITSM during the quarter. “They are using it for everything, ticket deflection, hardware provisioning, incident management. Really cool,” he said. Salesforce reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $11.13 billion, up 13% year-over-year. Net income rose to $2.10 billion, or $2.42 per diluted share, up from $1.54 billion, or $1.59 per share, in the year-ago quarter. For the next quarter, Salesforce guided to revenue of $11.27 billion to $11.35 billion, implying 10% to 11% year-over-year growth. The company also raised its full-year fiscal 2027 revenue guidance to a range of $45.9 billion to $46.2 billion, representing roughly 11% growth. The stock dipped very slightly in after-hours trading on the results. ®