Microsoft unveils AI agents for sales

Microsoft unveils AI agents for sales, striking back at Salesforce
Microsoft announced two new AI agents for sales that double as a competitive response to Salesforce in an area where both companies are placing big bets.
Microsoft Takes on Salesforce With New AI Sales Agents
Learn more about the two new AI tools from Microsoft, dubbed Sales Agent and Sales Chat, that are poised to help the company rival Salesforce.
Microsoft Unveils Two AI Agents That Can Complete Sales Tasks for Enterprise Clients
Microsoft claimed that Sales Agent can operate autonomously to grow the sales team's lead pipeline. It can research potential leads, set up meetings with the contacts, and reach out to customers. The tech giant also claimed that the AI agent might be able to complete a sale for some low-impact leads.
Microsoft Pitches New AI Agents As Ways To Leave Salesforce, CRMs
They connect to both Dynamics 365 and Salesforce, so sales reps can nurture and close deals without even opening their CRM,' says Jared Spataro, Microsoft CMO for AI at work. Microsoft appears to be clapping back at artificial intelligence business applications rivals,
How Microsoft's new AI sales agents will help your team close deals faster
The agents will integrate with Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat - and connect with two industry-leading CRMs. AI agents are revolutionizing the workplace by performing actions autonomously for workers and,
Microsoft teases sales agent automation for M365 and Dynamics 365
Redmond says you could ask one for a 'list of deals ... at risk of falling through' Microsoft today announced two software agents that automate certain business functions for Dynamics 365, its enterprise resource planning and customer relationship suite,
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Microsoft Names Developers It Sued for Abusing Its AI Tools
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Microsoft’s new AI agent can control software and robots
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Microsoft's big moves with generative AI and the three risks investors need to know
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Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI
Copilot is Microsoft’s take on productivity-boosting generative AI, and it continues to grow and expand with Microsoft’s AI ambitions. Today, there are around a dozen Copilot-branded products ...
Microsoft launches genAI sales agents, also focuses on finance and supply chain
The agents are part of Microsoft 365 Copilot and can be used to automatically generate and communicate with sales leads.