From Agentic Vision to Productive Reality
Munich, June 16, 2026: Salesforce expands its engineering methodology to valantic: With its inclusion in the newly launched Salesforce Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Partner Network, valantic will support companies in closing the gap between AI ambitions and real business results in an even more focused way. As a long-standing Salesforce partner with a proven track record and part of the exclusive network, valantic benefits from internal expertise and specialized training through Salesforce. The expanded partnership is designed to ensure that joint customers effectively manage the complexities of AI integrations and translate their agentic vision into a productive reality.
Motivation for the initiative: "Execution gap" on the way to Agentic Enterprises
The market is increasingly moving away from pure GenAI demos to agentic systems that independently execute tasks, orchestrate business processes, and interact with other systems. While companies are evolving into “Agentic Enterprises”, the phase of pure AI experiments is over. The focus is now on measurable return on investment (ROI) and production-ready integration into existing processes.
However, Salesforce still sees a significant implementation gap: Most companies remain stuck in an experimental phase with selective generic solutions and do not manage to establish scalable enterprise use cases for the operational business. With the FDE Partner Network, Salesforce wants to close this “execution gap” – the gap between AI ambition and real business outcome.
Engineering depth for complex enterprise deployments
To accompany the transition from pilot to production-ready results, the FDE network combines the industry-specific expertise of the selected partners with internal engineering standards from Salesforce. The initiative focuses on providing the continuous expertise and technical governance necessary to turn agentic vision into a long-term, scalable reality.
As an FDE member, valantic receives internal know-how and expanded competencies, including specialized training and access to AI architecture patterns, product roadmaps, technical best practices, and new agent force functionalities. Through direct feedback to the Salesforce engineering teams, valantic will also actively influence product development, for example in voice and observability functions.
valantic as one of ten FDE partners in Germany and Austria
With more than 100 certified experts and over 14 years of experience as a Salesforce partner, valantic has already successfully implemented over 100 Salesforce projects, including for global brands and industry leaders in fashion (e.g. PUMA, Takko Fashion, Acne Studios, MCM, Rossignol), Retail und Consumer Goods (Krombacher) and pharmaceuticals and health-tech (Johnson & Johnson, Biocartis, MEDICE). With this proven track record, valantic was selected as one of only ten partners in Germany and Austria for the FDE network.
Regulated and complex industries benefit particularly
The expanded partnership between valantic and Salesforce offers direct benefits to joint customers: The Salesforce proximity of the specially trained teams reduces risks in AI projects, accelerates productive implementation, and simplifies system orchestration by building a connecting technical foundation (integrations, APIs, and data pipelines).
Further information about valantic as an FDE partner can be found on the Salesforce platform AgentExchange.
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