{"id":224229,"date":"2026-06-01T22:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/salesforce-japan-to-focus-on-helping-firms-deploy-ai-effectively\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T09:56:20","slug":"salesforce-japan-to-focus-on-helping-firms-deploy-ai-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/salesforce-japan-to-focus-on-helping-firms-deploy-ai-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"Salesforce Japan to focus on helping firms deploy AI effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/02\/companies\/salesforce-ai-interview\/\">Salesforce Japan to focus on helping firms deploy AI effectively<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/02\/companies\/salesforce-ai-interview\/\">https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/02\/companies\/salesforce-ai-interview\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-01 22:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.japantimes.co.jp\">www.japantimes.co.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Salesforce Japan plans to increase its investments in artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing better data management to assist Japanese companies in deploying AI effectively.<\/li>\n<li>Chairperson and CEO Shinichi Koide highlighted that data integration is critical for AI deployment, especially given the widespread fragmented IT systems in Japan where data is often scattered across departments.<\/li>\n<li>Koide noted that Japan\u2019s reliance on legacy mainframe computers generates data silos that impede efficient use of AI applications.<\/li>\n<li>Better-integrated data could enable AI agents to perform tasks autonomously, aiding in systems reform and migration projects.<\/li>\n<li>Salesforce&#8217;s parent company recently announced a major acquisition of U.S. data-management company Informatica for about $8 billion, aiming to capitalize on the expanding data management segment.<\/li>\n<li>Koide commented that Japan offers greater AI-related growth opportunities than many other markets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce Japan to focus on helping firms deploy AI effectively https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/06\/02\/companies\/salesforce-ai-interview\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-01 22:58:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/japantimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/06\/02\/543799.jpg?v=3.1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-224229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224231,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224229\/revisions\/224231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}