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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HubSpot Just Made Your CRM Talk to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot — Here’s What Actually Changes

HubSpot now ships native connectors into four major AI assistants at once — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft 365 Copilot — and at least two of them can write back to your CRM, not just read from it. That is a meaningfully different proposition than the “ask a chatbot about your dat

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Zoho CRM’s Old UI Is Retiring This Week — Here’s What Enterprise Admins Need to Do Before July 24

If you administer a Zoho CRM Enterprise or Ultimate org, the clock is no longer theoretical. Zoho is retiring the classic Zoho CRM interface in two scheduled waves this month — Free, Standard, and Professional editions lost access between July 15 and July 17, 2026, and Enterprise, Ultimate, an

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The GTM Intelligence Land Grab: What Zoom-Common Room, Apollo-Pocus, and Clari-Salesloft Mean for Your CRM Stack

In the span of eight months, three separate acquisitions quietly redrew the map of the sales technology stack. Zoom bought an AI-native buyer intelligence platform. Apollo.io bought a signal-processing company used by Canva and Asana. Clari and Salesloft merged into a single company serving more tha

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CRMCoPilot.AI Update: Natural Language Search, CRM Tags, and Smarter Contact Verification

We’re excited to announce that we’ve deployed another major update to CRMCoPilot.AI. This release includes several new capabilities, performance improvements, and quality-of-life enhancements that move us closer to making CRMCoPilot the most intelligent CRM assistant available. A special thanks to Hesham Ellatif, who deployed this release, and to Jasmin Leyson and Princess Jennica Javier, who

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Zoho Flow Just Learned to Think: Inside the New Agentic Actions That Build Their Own Workflow Logic

Most workflow builders still make you think like a machine: if this field equals that value, then trigger this action, else do nothing. Zoho Flow just broke that pattern. In its latest AI update, you can now describe what you want in plain English — “when a new form is submitted on Paper

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