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.

Dataverse Now Speaks Claude, Cursor, and Copilot: What Microsoft’s MCP Expansion Means for Dynamics 365 Teams

On July 6, 2026, Microsoft quietly closed a gap that has been slowing down every Dynamics 365 and Power Platform team that also wants to use Claude or Cursor: the Dataverse coding-agent plugin, previously limited to GitHub Copilot, is now available across the Claude and Cursor marketplaces too. If y

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Salesforce Says Its AI Agents Are Growing 200% a Year. Its Own Customers Aren’t So Sure Yet.

Salesforce closed out July 2026 with a split screen. On one side: Agentforce Help Agent and Agentforce Customer Service Portal went generally available, backed by a pay-per-resolution pricing model that charges $2 only when the AI actually closes a case—and Agentforce plus Data 360 annual recu

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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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