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Sales Teams Struggle to Adopt AI Features in Salesforce CRM

Sales professionals at organizations using Salesforce Sales Cloud are finding the platform's AI features difficult to adopt due to unfamiliarity with AI concepts. This creates friction in day-to-day CRM usage and likely results in underutilization of paid features. The problem reflects a broader organizational change management gap rather than a technical deficiency in the product itself.

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