CRM is degenerating into infrastructure. What is really valuable is the AI orchestratio...

CRM is degenerating into infrastructure.

What is really valuable is the AI orchestration layer.⚡️ We have actually seen such a history once.

At that time, Facebook had a friend graph, and everyone thought that "relationship chain" was the ultimate moat.

But then what really ruled it all became Feed.

Relationship chains do not disappear, but degenerate into an input source for the flow of information.

Now, the same thing is happening in enterprise software.

CRM is not going away.

Salesforce is not going away.

But the System of Record is slowly degrading into infrastructure.

Real value is moving up: → orchestration → reasoning → agents → workflow → action The strongest enterprise software of the future, not necessarily the largest database.

But 🧠it must have the strongest System of Intelligence in charge: • Aggregate context • Orchestrate agents • Call workflows • Automate actions I think the most important insight of this article is that the true moat of enterprise software in the future may already be more than just “data”.

There is also a continuously running Agentic Context.

The database records "what happened" and the AI Orchestration records "how the organization thinks and acts", which is the true center of gravity of the next generation of software.

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