In March 2026, Salesforce deleted roughly 170 partner badges and replaced them with 28 competencies. HubSpot raised its partner tier thresholds in July and started charging a $400/month membership fee. Microsoft retired a stack of Dynamics 365 functional-consultant certifications and pointed the hol
Your rep marks the deal Closed Won. The signed PDF lands in an email thread, gets dragged into a shared drive, and is never opened again — until eleven months later, when the auto-renewal clause nobody read fires on terms nobody remembers negotiating. The CRM says you have a customer. It canno
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Most mid-market companies discover their channel program has outgrown their CRM the same way: a reseller emails a spreadsheet of “deals we’re working” to a channel manager, who forwards it to a rep, who finds out two of them are already in the pipeline under a direct AE’s name. Nobody is lying. Ther
On September 8, 2026, HubSpot ships its 2026-09 API version, and with it a genuine breaking change: admin-configured validation rules will be enforced on all CRM API write paths. Conditional required properties, required fields on the Create Record form, and user-level association permissions &mdash
Within days of ChatGPT Atlas launching in October 2025, security vendor Cyberhaven found that 27.7% of enterprises already had at least one employee who had downloaded it — no procurement, no security review, no admin approval. Ten months later, the standalone AI browser is dead and the capabi