They say things move faster in the AI age, and on Wednesday, Salesforce delivered the latest example.
Salesforce announced its third-quarter results for the 2026 fiscal year on Wednesday. The high-level numbers looked good. Revenue for the quarter was $10.3 billion, up 9% year over year. The company raised its full fiscal year 2026 revenue guidance from $41.45 billion to $41.55 billion, representing a 9% to 10% year-over-year increase.
But it was the performance of Data 360 (formerly Data Cloud) and Agentforce that really stood out.
“Our Agentforce and Data 360 products are the momentum drivers, hitting nearly $1.4 billion in ARR — an explosive 114% year-over-year gain,” said Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce, during the earnings call. “We now have over 9,500 paid Agentforce deals and 3.2 trillion tokens processed, underscoring our leadership in building the Agentic Enterprise and driving real outcomes.”
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What a difference 10 months makes
It was less than a year ago, at the February 2025 earnings call, that Salesforce executives said a meaningful contribution to earnings from Agentforce was more than a year away.
“We are incredibly excited about the customer momentum we are seeing. However, the adoption cycle is still early as we focus on deployment with our customers,” said Amy Weaver, who at the time was serving as Salesforce president and CFO. “As a result, we are assuming a modest contribution to revenue in fiscal ’26. We expect the momentum to build throughout the year, driving a more meaningful contribution in fiscal ’27.”
But even back in February, momentum for Data Cloud (now Data 360) was building. At the time, Salesforce reported that nearly half of the Fortune 100 were both AI and Data Cloud customers, and that all of Salesforce’s top 10 wins in Q4 included Data and AI.
That was important to note because before companies can unleash agents on their customers and employees, they need to get their data in order. Data 360, with unified data and guardrails, does exactly that.
On Wednesday, Salesforce referred to Data 360, Agentforce and other infrastructure tools like the recently acquired Informatica as the backbone of its “data foundation,” on which AI agents will be built. And it had numbers to demonstrate that the foundation is in good shape.
- Agentforce’s annual recurring revenue (ARR) alone was approximately $540 million, representing a 330% year-over-year increase.
- Data 360 ingested 32 trillion records in Q3, up 119% year-over-year.
- 50% of new Agentforce bookings and 50% of Data 360 bookings came from existing customers expanding their investments.
We’ll see what gets built on that foundation in the 2027 fiscal year.
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