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John M Perez

CRM & ERP Enterprise Technology Expert and Entrepreneurial Executive with 20+ years of leading CRM, ERP, Customer Experience, and Block-chain initiatives and projects across internal and customer facing technologies.  Proven success in closing large deals in Pre Sales customer facing engagements and deploying enterprise wide CRM & Customer Experience solutions internationally and domestically.

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5 First-Party CRM and ERP MCP Servers, Compared: What Each One Can Actually Read, Write, and Break

On November 2, 2026, Salesforce archived the local MCP server its own developers had been using to wire Claude and Cursor into Salesforce orgs. The npm package stays installable but is deprecated and unmaintained. If that is how someone at your company connected an AI assistant to your CRM, that con

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Your Dialer Stops Working in February 2028: A CRM Voice Architecture Plan for Salesforce, HubSpot, and Zoho

Salesforce has set a hard end-of-life date of February 28, 2028 for Open CTI — the JavaScript framework that every embedded softphone in Salesforce has relied on for more than a decade. It is already unavailable for newly created Agentforce Service orgs as of February 16, 2026. Meanwhile HubSp

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Why Your CRM Vendor Just Started Selling You a Semantic Layer — And What It Actually Fixes

Ask three people in a mid-market company what Q3 pipeline was and you get three numbers. The VP of Sales pulls a CRM dashboard. Finance pulls a spreadsheet keyed off closed-won amount. Marketing pulls an attribution report. Now add a fourth answer — the one your new AI agent gives a rep in a c

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Best-of-Breed Just Became a Shopping List: What Salesforce’s $12.5 Billion Year Means for Your Stack Strategy

Three weeks before Salesforce agreed to buy it, Braze stood on stage at its own Forge 2026 conference and launched four beta products — including a feature that lets marketers build campaigns headlessly from Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot. On October 20, 2026, Salesforce announced it wa

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