Today's SaaS Pulse
Salesforce Launches AgentExchange, a Unified AI Marketplace with $50M Builder Fund
Salesforce has merged its three app and AI stores into a single AgentExchange marketplace, offering over 13,000 ready‑made apps, AI agents, and automation components. The platform features intent‑aware search, one‑click buying, and instant activation within Salesforce or Slack, and includes a $50 million builder fund to encourage partner development.
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By the numbers: Loop raises $95M to scale its supply‑chain AI platform
Harness Rolls Out Release Orchestration Features with AI-Enabled Verification and Rollback
Harness announced new Release Orchestration capabilities that embed AI‑enabled verification and automatic rollback into its Continuous Delivery platform. The features also bring native warehouse‑level feature management from the Split acquisition and Database DevOps support for Snowflake, allowing code and data changes to flow through a single pipeline. According to the 2026 State of DevOps Modernization Report, roughly 25% of deployments require remediation, taking an average of 7.5 hours, a bottleneck Harness aims to eliminate. The AI engine evaluates each release, deciding to proceed, pause, or revert without manual intervention.
Bloomerang Launches AI Strategist ‘Penny’
Bloomerang has launched "Penny," an AI‑driven fundraising strategist now available in beta on its Giving Platform. Built from thousands of consulting engagements, Penny analyzes each nonprofit’s full donor history to deliver real‑time, actionable recommendations. Early adopters, such as the Joe...
ServiceNow Allegedly Says Salesman 'Overachieved' And Is Not Entitled to Comp
ServiceNow is being sued by long‑time public‑sector sales leader Jorge Costa, who alleges the company refused to pay commissions on more than $27 million in federal contract sales. Costa says he is owed $761,974—double the $380,987 originally promised—for a $7.3 million deal...
SurveyMonkey Launches Automated SMS Survey Invites Directly From Salesforce?
SurveyMonkey announced the launch of automated SMS survey invites within its Salesforce integration on the AppExchange. The new feature lets customer‑experience and support teams trigger personalized text‑message surveys when key Salesforce events occur, such as closing a support case or...
New Marketplace Introduces Competitive Bidding for Microsoft 365 Licensing
LicenseBids, a new online marketplace, launches today to bring competitive bidding to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace licensing procurement. The platform lets businesses submit RFQs and receive blind or concierge‑managed bids from qualified Cloud Solution Provider partners, aiming to increase...
Novisto Acquires Carbon Accounting Software Provider Minimum
Novisto announced the acquisition of Minimum, a London‑based carbon management software provider, to create an end‑to‑end carbon and sustainability platform. Minimum’s Carbon Atlas maps emissions across complex organizational structures, delivering granular carbon intelligence. The deal builds on Novisto’s $27 million financing...
Inox
Inox launches an AI‑powered block management platform tailored for the UK residential leasehold sector, replacing spreadsheets, legacy systems, and email chaos with a single cloud‑based hub. The solution links property managers, accountants, leaseholders and contractors, offering automated ticket handling, one‑click...
Harvey Secures $200 Million Funding at $11 Billion Valuation, Boosting AI Legal Infrastructure
San Francisco‑based Harvey closed a $200 million financing round that lifts its valuation to $11 billion. Backed by GIC, Sequoia Capital and other top investors, the capital will fund AI‑agent expansion and global legal‑engineering teams, cementing Harvey’s position as a leading legal‑infrastructure...
Palantir Extends Five‑Year Deal with Stellantis, Adding AI Platform to Automotive SaaS Stack
Palantir Technologies announced a five‑year renewal and expansion of its partnership with Stellantis, adding the Palantir Artificial Intelligence Platform to the automaker’s existing Foundry deployment. The deal deepens Palantir’s foothold in automotive SaaS and comes as the company’s stock slipped...
Automation and AI at Work in Pickens County
In this episode of the Tyler Tech Podcast, accounts payable specialist Holly Poole explains how Pickens County, Georgia transitioned from fragmented document‑management and accounting systems to a unified, cloud‑based ERP (ERP Pro) enhanced with AI‑driven invoice capture and AP automation. The new...
Maro of the Minds: Kenzie Butera Davis with Jenny Fielding
In this episode, founder Kenzie Butera Davis discusses Morrow, a platform that provides early‑intervention mental‑health screening and risk detection for K‑12 students. She traces her journey from nonprofit work and accelerator experience to launching Morrow, highlighting a pivotal win at...
Proton Launches Encrypted Video Conferencing and Unified Workspace to Take On Google and Microsoft
Proton announced the launch of Proton Workspace and Proton Meet, expanding its privacy‑first portfolio into the enterprise productivity arena and directly challenging Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. The new video‑conferencing service offers end‑to‑end encryption via the open MLS protocol, allowing...
Visa Pushes Subscription Management Tool
Visa announced a partnership with Pinwheel to embed an enhanced subscription manager directly into banking apps, giving cardholders a consolidated view of recurring charges, alternative payment options, and one‑click cancellation. The rollout begins this summer for North American issuers, with...
Skip Scraping Templates. Let Hexomatic + AI Do the Work
Hexomatic’s Get Page Content automation lets users extract readable page text without building HTML selectors, then feed that raw content to AI models for structuring. By bypassing template engineering, the workflow speeds up data collection for research, discovery and content‑driven...
Rivermate Rises as a Leading EOR Platform for Global Talent Acquisition
Rivermate has been named a top employer‑of‑record (EOR) platform, enabling companies to hire employees and contractors in over 180 countries without establishing local entities. The service handles payroll, contracts, tax compliance, and statutory benefits, streamlining global workforce expansion. Its focus...
HVAC Giant Trane Is a SaaS Business in Disguise, Report Says
Trane Technologies is being re‑characterized by analysts as a SaaS‑style business because more than 40% of its revenue now comes from recurring service contracts that generate over 30% margins. The company’s in‑house sales force and proprietary diagnostic platform lock customers...
RSAC 2026: Druva Pioneers Identity-Aware Resilience for Okta, Active Directory, and Entra ID
Druva unveiled Identity Resilience, extending its SaaS platform to protect identities across Okta, Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID. The solution continuously models identity state, correlates privileges, activity and data, and stores this intelligence in the MetaGraph engine. By unifying hybrid...
Keepit Signs Strategic Agreement with Hammer Distribution
Keepit, a cloud‑native data protection provider, has signed a strategic agreement with Hammer Distribution to strengthen its UK and Ireland market presence. The partnership leverages Hammer’s value‑added distribution network and Keepit’s local data centers to deliver vendor‑independent SaaS backup that...
Copilot Introduces Dual‑Model Critique and Multi‑Model Council
Critique and Council -> Microsoft 365 Copilot gets Critique and Council modes "Critique is constructed as a dual-model system: one model generates the research draft, planning, sourcing, and synthesizing information, while a second model reviews and refines the output, emphasizing source...
Cato Networks Unveils Modular Adoption Model for SASE Platform
Cato Networks announced a modular adoption model for its core SASE platform, allowing enterprises to select and add capabilities such as AI security, SD‑WAN, SSE and universal ZTNA on demand. The solution runs on the GPU‑powered Cato Neural Edge, a...
Eptura Advances Enterprise Workplace Coordination in Microsoft 365 Following Solutions Partner with Certified Software Designation for Financial Services AI
Eptura announced that its Engage platform now deepens integration with Microsoft 365, following the award of a Solutions Partner with Certified Software designation for Financial Services AI. The upgrade adds enterprise‑scale scheduling, AI‑driven booking via Microsoft 365 Copilot, and advanced...
How Is the NHS Managing £355 Billion in Transactions? NHS SBS Talks AI, Oracle Fusion, and the Future of NHS...
The NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) now runs a national finance and procurement platform on Oracle Fusion Cloud, covering 48 NHS organisations and processing roughly $444 bn in transactions each year. The go‑live on 1 October 2025 handled $23.75 bn on day one and...
GetVocal Introduces Control Center to Help Enterprises Scale AI Across 90 Percent Plus of Customer Conversations
GetVocal has launched the Control Center, a governance layer that lets human supervisors oversee and intervene in AI‑driven customer conversations in real time. The platform blends deterministic context graphs with a hybrid human‑AI workforce, allowing AI to autonomously resolve most...
Context by Fulcra Solves the Fragmented Health App Problem by Connecting All Your Wearables, Apps, and Life Data in One...
Fulcra Dynamics has launched Context, a unified health‑and‑life data platform that consolidates wearables, tracking apps, calendars, and location sources into a single intelligent timeline. The app automatically ingests data from multiple devices, adds user‑entered qualitative notes, and offers native AI...
CMA Announces Package of Actions on Business Software and Cloud Services
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced a strategic market status (SMS) investigation into Microsoft’s business software ecosystem, set to start in May. The probe targets Microsoft’s licensing practices that may restrict competition in cloud services, especially as AI...
Usage Pricing Leaving Software Vendors Guessing What Lands on the Invoice
Software vendors are losing revenue because legacy billing and ERP systems cannot keep up with usage‑based, AI‑enhanced pricing models. A PwC and m3ter survey of 350 executives shows 44% struggle to measure consumption, and 4‑7% of annual recurring revenue may...
Rsult Group Expands NetSuite Footprint with Cadran and Yuccaa Acquisitions
Rsult Group announced the acquisition of Cadran Consultancy and Yuccaa, bolstering its presence in the Oracle NetSuite ecosystem. The deal merges Cadran’s two‑decade ERP expertise with Yuccaa’s digital‑first consulting, creating a more integrated ERP, data and AI transformation platform. With...
Doba Launches Unified AI Platform to Consolidate Every Dropshipping Automation Tool in One Place
Doba has launched the beta of Doba Pilot, an AI‑driven platform that consolidates core dropshipping functions into a single natural‑language interface. The system automates product discovery, Shopify store creation, AI‑generated listings, and real‑time inventory sync across its largely US‑based supplier...
NetSuite Extends Commitment to Helping Businesses Use AI Their Way
Oracle NetSuite unveiled enhancements to its AI Connector Service, adding a Companion module, support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) Apps, and broader integration with NetSuite Analytics Warehouse. The Companion provides a curated library of over 100 finance‑specific prompt templates and...
Okta Deploys AI‑Agent Identity as 'Claw' Architecture Takes Hold in Enterprise
Okta, the $14 billion identity‑management firm, announced a new AI‑agent identity framework to protect autonomous software agents, signaling the enterprise’s shift toward “claw” technology. Executives from Okta, Nvidia and startup NanoCo highlighted security, productivity and cost pressures driving the move.
G-Stacker Unveils Platform to Automate Interconnected Google Content Ecosystems
G-Stacker announced a new digital infrastructure platform that automates the creation of interconnected Google‑based content assets, allowing marketers to generate coordinated SEO‑focused material across Docs, Sheets, Slides, Sites and other Google services. The launch aims to streamline multi‑property content strategies...
Microsoft Shares Rally on Copilot Expansion and New AI SaaS Suite
Microsoft's shares, which have slipped 24% year‑to‑date, rallied after the company announced a broader rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot and a suite of AI‑driven SaaS products. Analysts cite the move as a catalyst for renewed growth in the Intelligent Cloud...
Geotab and Hyundai Partner to Deliver Hardware-Free, Native Telematics Integration
Geotab and Hyundai have launched a hardware‑free telematics integration for Hyundai vehicles across more than 40 European markets. The solution streams data from factory‑installed sensors directly to the MyGeotab platform, eliminating aftermarket device costs. It supports both internal‑combustion and electric...
I Connected My Dropbox to ChatGPT — and It Changed How I Find Everything
OpenAI’s latest update lets ChatGPT connect directly to Dropbox, indexing PDFs, Word documents, Excel sheets and PowerPoint decks for conversational search. Users link their account via the Apps menu, after which the model can locate files and even extract relevant...
Fresha Becomes the Software Infrastructure of Choice for Multi-Location Selfcare Businesses as Enterprise Growth Surges
Fresha, the AI‑powered booking platform for beauty and wellness, is seeing rapid enterprise adoption as multi‑location brands switch from fragmented software stacks to its unified solution. The company reports a 32% year‑over‑year rise in gross merchandise value (GMV) from multi‑site...
Robotic Online Intelligence Introduces Kubro(TM) Agents – A Toolkit For Bespoke Agentic Workflows In Market Research
Robotic Online Intelligence (ROI) has launched Kubro™ Agents, a new module on its Kubro platform that lets data firms and investment research teams build fully configurable, multi‑step agentic workflows for market research. The toolkit offers more than 50 granular parameters...
‘Fragmentation Is Poison’: How Microsoft Is Targeting Disparate Data to Boost AI Adoption
Microsoft unveiled Database Hub and Fabric IQ at FabCon and SQLCon 2026, extending its Fabric SaaS analytics platform to unify roughly 20 data services under a single management plane. The new Database Hub adds AI‑driven, natural‑language exploration across Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL and...
#277 How CFOs Scale to $100M+ Without Leaving Xero, David Tuck, Founder, Mayday and Kate Hayward, Managing Director UK, Xero
In this episode, Kevin Appleby talks with Kate Hayward, Managing Director of Xero UK, and David Tuck, founder of Mayday, about how finance teams can scale beyond $100 million in revenue while staying on Xero instead of migrating to a traditional...
Instagram Tests a Feature to Let You See Your Ex's Stories without a Trace — and It's Going to Cost...
Instagram is piloting a paid subscription that lets users watch Stories anonymously, extending the feature set with audience lists beyond Close Friends and a 24‑hour story extension. The test is live in Mexico, Japan and the Philippines and costs roughly...
Higgsfield Birthday Sale: Up to 70% Off AI Video Plans
So @higgsfield just launched a birthday discount—up to 70% off. A lot of us already use the platform. It has 22 million active users, and they shipped over 200 features in the last year. That’s wild. Here are the deals: - Individual plans:...
Daily Feature Releases Make Stripe Billing Even Easier
We're shipping new features every day for the rest of the month Stripe is the easiest to setup billing for your software company and now it's even easier to trigger emails based on important events
Microsoft Adds Anthropic’s Claude to 365 Copilot, Lifts Research Quality 13.8%
Microsoft announced that its 365 Copilot suite now uses Anthropic’s Claude to critique and improve GPT‑generated drafts. The new Critique feature lifts the DRACO benchmark by 13.8%, a move aimed at accelerating Copilot adoption among its 15 million paid enterprise seats.
Creator Reveals Daily Claude Code Workflow, Uncovers New Features
The guy who built Claude Code shared how he actually uses it. I've been using it daily for months and half these features were new to me.
Live Webflow Integration Lets Agent Edit Pages Directly
Webflow integration is live. Connect your account and the agent can edit pages directly — copy changes, content updates, new sections. No exporting, editing locally, and re-uploading. The agent works in Webflow. Waitlist invite emails going out soon https://t.co/tVWOdKLyKF
SaaS Sell‑Off Sends RingCentral, DigitalOcean, SentinelOne, CrowdStrike Tumbling
Shares of RingCentral, DigitalOcean, SentinelOne and CrowdStrike slumped sharply amid a broad SaaS sell‑off, with the four stocks losing between 30% and 35% from recent highs. The decline reflects investor anxiety over AI‑driven pricing pressure, slowing growth and the looming...
Proton Consolidates Core Apps Into Two Workspace Plans
Proton is putting its core apps into two Workspace subscriptions to make it easier to manage subscriptions. https://t.co/PrV7IgntLE
Edit Sent Magister Messages, Continue Conversation Seamlessly
You can now edit any message you've sent to Magister and branch the conversation from that point. Wrong direction, bad prompt, changed your mind — just edit it. The conversation continues from there, not from the mistake. Waitlist invite emails going out...
Wiise Boosts A/NZ Partner Program with AI and Product Additions
Wiise has revamped its Australia‑New Zealand partner program, adding AI‑focused training and new prospecting tools. The initiative includes an AI Academy of practical webinars and AI‑powered utilities to help partners qualify opportunities faster. It also introduces partner community days, roadmap visibility,...
Explore Software Factory: A Practical Walkthrough Overview
Here is a good and useful walkthrough of what Software Factory is and what it can do...feel free to watch if you are curious.
Data + AI Brings The Next-Generation CDP Into View
Customer data platforms have solidified as a core martech component, with the vendor landscape consolidating into a clear top tier and a unified definition emerging. Marketers are demanding more reliable, AI‑enhanced solutions that respect privacy and deliver measurable ROI. The...