Author: Marcel Szimonisz

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I specialize in solving marketing technology challenges, automating processes, and turning ideas into practical solutions with Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Campaign. Through MarTechNotes, I share technical guides and insights that make complex topics easier to understand

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Salesforce Jul 31, 2026

Salesforce turns on step-up authentication for Marketing Cloud Security Settings on July 30, 2026

Salesforce activated step-up authentication for Security Settings changes in Marketing Cloud Engagement on July 30, 2026, and is rolling it out by release group over the next few…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 274 views

Salesforce Jul 31, 2026

White House Permitting Innovators Expo features Salesforce’s Agentforce Public Sector on July 31, 2026

The White House’s Permitting Innovators Expo features Salesforce’s Agentforce Public Sector for license, permit and inspection management on July 31, 2026, with the product listed in the event’s…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 197 views

HubSpot Jul 31, 2026

HubSpot ends duplicate call records for recorded meetings starting July 31, 2026

The main change is that, effective July 31, 2026, HubSpot logs any recorded meeting as one meeting record instead of creating both a meeting and a call, removing…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 193 views

Salesforce Jul 29, 2026

Salesforce says agentic search is up 200% as shoppers start in AI chat on July 28, 2026

Salesforce says shopper journeys are now starting in AI chat 200% more often year over year, and it put a date on it: July 28, 2026. In its…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 439 views

Salesforce Jul 29, 2026

Salesforce ships Field Service Mobile Patch 2 on July 29, deprecates Android 12

Salesforce released Field Service Mobile Patch 2 to general availability on July 29, 2026, with the update arriving in a staggered rollout and Android 12 support discontinued for…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read 187 views

HubSpot Jul 29, 2026

HubSpot expands Claude connector with landing pages, campaigns and revenue objects in July 29 update

The main development is that HubSpot expanded its Claude connector on July 29, 2026, adding creation tools for landing pages, campaign attribution and reporting, email analytics and drafting,…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 306 views

Salesforce Jul 27, 2026

Salesforce partners with Kolkata’s Vivekananda Hospital on AI‑powered patient engagement platform

Salesforce partnered with Kolkata-based Vivekananda Hospital to deploy an AI-powered patient engagement platform on July 27, 2026, confirming the tie-up in its India newsroom and reflected in local…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 174 views

HubSpot Jul 27, 2026

HubSpot stock edges higher premarket on July 27 as US-Iran pause lifts risk appetite

HubSpot shares rose in premarket trading on July 27, 2026 as risk appetite improved after a weekend pause in US-Iran hostilities and oil slid about 5%, a move…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read 290 views

Salesforce Jul 24, 2026

VA awards Salesforce a $1.6B Agentic Enterprise License Agreement to modernize veteran care

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded Salesforce a three‑year Agentic Enterprise License Agreement worth up to $1.6 billion on July 24, 2026, a move first detailed by…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read 462 views

HubSpot Jul 24, 2026

HubSpot launches Agent Hub and Agent Builder in public beta on July 23, 2026

HubSpot launched Agent Hub and Agent Builder in public beta on July 23, 2026, unifying AI agent management and creation across its Smart CRM for Professional and Enterprise…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read > 999 views

Salesforce Jul 22, 2026

Morgan Stanley downgrades Salesforce to Equal Weight, cuts price target to $185 on July 21, 2026

Morgan Stanley downgraded Salesforce to Equal Weight and cut its price target to $185 on July 21, 2026, pointing to AI progress that isn’t yet lifting core subscription…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read 429 views

HubSpot Jul 22, 2026

HubSpot will block in-use pipeline deletes by default in the 2026-09 API version

HubSpot will block Pipelines API deletes of in-use pipelines and stages by default in the 2026-09 API version, announced on July 21, 2026. Integrations moving to 2026-09 will…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 172 views

Salesforce Jul 20, 2026

Salesforce starts enforcing phishing-resistant MFA for admins in production on July 20, 2026

Salesforce began enforcing phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for admins and other privileged users in production on July 20, 2026, kicking off a staggered rollout that blocks non‑compliant logins until…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 272 views

Salesforce Jul 20, 2026

Salesforce starts production enforcement of MFA on July 20, 2026

Salesforce is enforcing multi-factor authentication for all employee users in production starting today, July 20, 2026, with the change rolling out in staggered waves rather than a single…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 390 views

HubSpot Jul 20, 2026

Wells Fargo downgrades HubSpot to Equal Weight, cuts price target to $225 on July 20, 2026

Wells Fargo downgraded HubSpot to Equal Weight and cut its price target to $225 on July 20, 2026, flagging near‑term uncertainty as the company reorients around AI products…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 243 views

Salesforce Jul 20, 2026

Salesforce Revenue Cloud Basics: A Beginner’s Guide to Revenue Management

Salesforce now refers to Revenue Cloud as Revenue Management, although both names can still appear across the application and documentation. Revenue Management provides extensible, API-first components for managing…

By Marcel Szimonisz 11 min read 242 views

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next Jul 18, 2026

How to Set Up Marketing Cloud Next: The Essential First Steps

The essential first steps for setting up Marketing Cloud Next are configuring the foundation layer first: users, permissions, Data Cloud readiness, business configuration, channels, and testable data flow…

By Marcel Szimonisz 11 min read 151 views

Salesforce Jul 17, 2026

Salesforce spotlights unified Sales Cloud data in Slack on July 16, tightening Agentforce Sales workflows

The main difference highlighted on July 16, 2026 is that Sales Cloud context and actions now live natively in Slack for sellers, with Salesforce positioning Agentforce Sales as…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 234 views

HubSpot Jul 17, 2026

HubSpot makes $400/month Partner Program membership mandatory, sets August 15 end date for Solutions Provider

The main change is that HubSpot now requires a $400 per month Partner Program membership and is ending the Solutions Provider Program on August 15, 2026. On July…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 396 views

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next Jul 16, 2026

Marketing Cloud Next Form Handler Not Processing Submissions After SDO Reactivation

After my Salesforce SDO expired, the environment was later reactivated. Most of the configuration was still available, but after some time I noticed that my form handler stopped…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read 159 views

Salesforce Jul 15, 2026

Salesforce shares fall as IBM’s profit warning triggers software sell-off on July 14, 2026

Salesforce shares fell on July 14, 2026 after IBM issued a preliminary revenue warning that rattled software names and set off a broad risk-off move across enterprise SaaS.…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read 358 views

HubSpot Jul 15, 2026

HubSpot resolves North America content preview outage on July 14, 2026

HubSpot resolved a North America incident that made content previews unavailable for some customers on July 14, 2026. The disruption centered on preview links and was addressed the…

By Marcel Szimonisz 2 min read 225 views

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Next Jul 14, 2026

Marketing Cloud Next vs Marketing Cloud Engagement: What’s Actually Different?

Marketing Cloud Next and Marketing Cloud Engagement differ primarily in 4 areas: architecture, data foundation, campaign workflow, and platform maturity. Marketing Cloud Engagement is the established execution platform…

By Marcel Szimonisz 17 min read 323 views

Salesforce Jul 13, 2026

Salesforce enforces default report‑export Transaction Security Policy on July 13, 2026

Salesforce began enforcing a default Transaction Security Policy (TSP) on ReportEvent in production on July 13, 2026, automatically gating large report exports for orgs that haven’t configured their…

By Marcel Szimonisz 3 min read 358 views

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Salesforce Oct 5, 2026

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