Salesforce announced new Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect Salesforce CRM data, Tableau Next analytics, Data 360, and AI agents directly into Slackbot, Slack's built-in personal agent. Users can now query customer records, surface live Tableau visualizations, view unified Data 360 profiles, update pipelines, and trigger workflows across partner apps like Jira, Box, DocuSign, and Zapier — all from a Slack conversation, with no tab-switching, custom code, or separate logins. The Slackbot MCP Client is generally available on any Slack plan that includes Slackbot, and Salesforce-hosted MCP Servers are GA for Enterprise Edition organizations and above, with over 25 compatible partner apps listed in the Slack Marketplace's dedicated MCP registry.
Coastal Cloud is a US-based consulting firm founded in 2012 that helps organizations get more value from Salesforce, data, and AI. A top-tier Salesforce Summit/multi-cloud partner headquartered in Palm Coast, Florida, it delivers strategy, implementation, integration, analytics, and managed services across Sales, Service, Marketing, Revenue/CPQ, Commerce, and Data Cloud, extended by Snowflake, Tableau, and MuleSoft. With roughly 570 employees, thousands of Salesforce certifications, and work spanning healthcare, financial services, education, nonprofit, manufacturing, and the public sector, Coastal was acquired by Tata Consultancy Services in a $700 million all-cash deal announced in December 2025.
Cymetrix Software is a global Salesforce and data analytics consulting firm founded in 2016 that helps enterprises modernize their CRM, data, and AI workflows. With a certified team of 150+ consultants and offices in the USA, India, UK, and Japan, Cymetrix delivers multi-cloud Salesforce implementations, MuleSoft integrations, Tableau and Looker analytics, and applied AI - including Agentforce AI agents built on Salesforce Data Cloud - for clients across manufacturing, retail, BFSI, pharma, healthcare, and nonprofit sectors.
DynPro Inc. is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based global IT consulting and services firm founded in 1996. It helps Fortune 500 and mid-market organizations orchestrate fragmented data, processes and customer experiences across enterprise platforms, with practice areas in Process Transformation, Data & Integration, and Automation & Advanced Analytics. DynPro implements and integrates SAP, Salesforce, Workato, Snowflake and related cloud ecosystems, and complements delivery with IT staffing and talent solutions from offices in the United States, United Kingdom, India and Morocco.
Epidata is an Argentina-founded, privately owned technology company specializing in innovation outsourcing - transforming organizations through software architecture, engineering, and applied knowledge. Since 2003 it has grown into a multinational with roughly 700+ staff and offices across Latin America and San Francisco, delivering software development, staff augmentation, DevOps, big data, machine learning, RPA, testing and digital transformation to enterprises and governments including JP Morgan, HSBC, Walmart, Telecom, Tenaris and Asana.
AutoRABIT is an enterprise DevSecOps and release-management platform built for the Salesforce ecosystem. It combines CI/CD automation (ARM), static code and security analysis (CodeScan), data and metadata backup and recovery (Vault), and security posture management (Guard) so teams in regulated industries - banking, financial services, healthcare, and government - can ship Salesforce changes quickly while keeping security and compliance intact. Founded in 2015 and bootstrapped for its first five years, the company is headquartered in San Francisco and serves customers including ABN AMRO, Cigna, and CyberArk.
Pierce Washington is an enterprise consulting firm that untangles the messiest part of B2B selling - the journey from quote to cash. Since 2005 it has implemented CPQ, eCommerce, and subscription billing on Salesforce and Oracle platforms, then wired those systems into the ERP backbone so deals price correctly, ship cleanly, and bill accurately. With 100-plus complex CPQ projects behind it and a 'Total Commerce' maturity model guiding clients, the firm helps manufacturers, hi-tech, and life-sciences companies turn slow, error-prone sales processes into self-service revenue engines.
Wilco Source is a Santa Clara-based Salesforce consulting and implementation firm built exclusively for healthcare and life sciences. A Salesforce partner since its founding in 2014, the roughly 440-person company helps pharmaceutical companies, medical device makers, payers, providers, and specialty hub service providers run patient services, clinical trials, and lead-to-cash operations on the Salesforce platform, with proprietary accelerators like Wilco Docx and REMS Central. In November 2022 it was acquired by healthcare technology firm CitiusTech, and it now operates as 'Wilco Source, a CitiusTech company.'

Kedar Relangi is the CEO and co-founder of Wilco Source, a Santa Clara-based Salesforce consulting firm specializing in healthcare and life sciences. Founded in 2014 alongside Sundar Ramasamy, Wilco Source became a go-to partner for pharmaceutical companies, medical device firms, payers, and health providers seeking enterprise-wide Salesforce implementations. In November 2022, CitiusTech acquired Wilco Source in a strategic move to combine healthcare domain depth with specialized Salesforce delivery capabilities. With a background spanning computer science degrees from Osmania University and RWTH Aachen, and over 17 years in IT and healthcare technology, Relangi built Wilco Source into a ~440-person organization with roughly $55M in annual revenue before the acquisition.

Shivkumar Thiagarajan, known as Shiv, is Co-Chief Executive Officer of DynPro Inc., a global IT consulting powerhouse he helped build over more than two decades. Based in Santa Clara, California, Shiv leads an organization of 1,600+ professionals spanning North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, delivering enterprise transformations across SAP, Salesforce, cloud, data, and AI platforms. With 30 years of institutional momentum behind DynPro and a newly minted partnership with Turgon AI that compresses year-long modernization projects into weeks, Shiv is steering one of the IT industry's most enduring firms into its AI-native chapter.
Valerio Adrián Anacleto is the co-founder and CEO of Epidata, Latin America's first innovation outsourcing company, which he built from a three-person startup in Buenos Aires in 2003 into a 900-person firm operating across 10 Latin American countries and the United States with $30M in annual revenue. A product of Argentina's public university system who started working at age 10 in the La Matanza district, Anacleto also serves as First Vice President of CESSI, Argentina's software industry chamber, and is a longtime professor at the University of Buenos Aires and Universidad Católica Argentina.
Karina Baze (El-Baze) is an Operating Partner at Khosla Ventures, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she works at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and commercial reality. A Stanford-trained operator with a career arc running from MuleSoft's scrappy East Division founding days through IPO and Salesforce acquisition, to leading GTM at AI-native companies Instabase and Hebbia, Karina brings rare depth to helping portfolio founders build revenue engines that actually work. Recognized as one of 100 Women in AI in 2025, she specializes in translating deep tech into customer outcomes - a skill set that is quietly reshaping how Khosla's portfolio companies go to market.

Ann Winblad is a Silicon Valley legend who bootstrapped her first software company with $500 borrowed from her brother, sold it for $15 million, then co-founded the world's first venture capital firm exclusively dedicated to software in 1989. Over 30+ years at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, she backed 160+ enterprise software companies - including first-institutional-investor bets on MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B) and Omniture (acquired by Adobe for $1.8B) - while becoming the most influential female venture capitalist of her generation.

Cameron Christoffers is VP of Strategy, Programs & Sales Development at Salesforce's Next Gen Platform Org - the team behind Agentforce, Data Cloud, MuleSoft, and Heroku. A Stanford-trained engineer and Division I volleyball player turned tech executive, Cameron carved an unlikely path from Raytheon labs to TechCrunch intern desks to leading sales strategy at one of the world's largest enterprise software companies. He bridges the technical and the commercial with rare fluency, having built his career at the intersection of platform thinking and revenue execution.