{"id":13701,"date":"2026-09-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=13701"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T23:44:08","slug":"the-next-wave-of-ai-navigating-trust-cost-and-return-on-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/news\/stories\/the-next-wave-of-ai-navigating-trust-cost-and-return-on-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Wave of AI: Navigating Trust, Cost and Return on Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Frank Fillmann, EVP and GM, Australia and New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past three years, I\u2019ve spoken with hundreds of Aussie and Kiwi business leaders about what AI means for their employees, customers and business growth. Today\u2019s conversations focus on moving fast to capture the opportunity while managing trust, cost, and ROI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together we\u2019ve been able to take this new incredible intelligence capability and harness it with the data guardrails and business logic they already have. Customers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/sukhinders_lucy-thats-the-internal-code-name-activity-7478485161513218048-RzIo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Xero<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anz.com.au\/newsroom\/media\/2026\/february\/anz-launches-agentic-ai-powered-crm-to-transform-business-banking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ANZ Bank<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/customer-stories\/fisher-and-paykel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fisher &amp; Paykel<\/a> are trailblazers, unlocking trapped value in their businesses and delivering better employee and customer experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What\u2019s become crystal clear: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/news\/stories\/ai-learned-to-play-by-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AI models alone<\/a> cannot run a company. It\u2019s the pairing of probabilistic AI models and deterministic systems which deliver the innovation to unlock AI\u2019s true potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"h-the-next-wave-of-ai-innovation\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The next wave of AI innovation<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Probabilistic AI can interpret context, generate responses and reason through complex problems. Deterministic systems provide the trusted data, business rules, permissions and workflows that organisations rely on every day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Combined, they create something far more powerful than either can deliver independently: AI that can not only understand and recommend, but also act within clearly defined business guardrails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Together, with dynamic, context-aware user interfaces like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/news\/press-releases\/2026\/08\/27\/salesforce-and-anthropic-announce-claudeforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claudeforce<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/slack.com\/intl\/en-au\/features\/slackbot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slackbot<\/a> you have this next phase of AI with unprecedented potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"h-the-australian-and-new-zealand-context-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Australian and New Zealand context&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leaders are under pressure to improve productivity, manage rising costs and meet ever-higher customer expectations in a challenging economic environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there are no silver bullets, we agree with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/ai-the-biggest-economic-transformation-in-our-lifetime-chalmers-20260831-p60syg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Treasury<\/a> that AI represents one of the most significant opportunities in almost two decades to unlock new capacity, accelerate growth and improve customer outcomes across the economy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m seeing some amazing trailblazers innovate and move at pace, yet so many businesses are yet to deliver true agentic transformation. They may have some failed pilots, perhaps resources spent on building their own model or vibe coding a project that works on day one then falls over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the world isn\u2019t waiting. Companies with growth ambitions are finding ways to transform their businesses into agentic enterprises, fast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"h-agentic-ai-momentum-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Agentic AI momentum&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the Salesforce platform, we\u2019ve seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/news\/stories\/agentic-work-units\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agentic Work Units<\/a> (AWU), which represents one discrete unit of work completed by an AI agent, increase by 97 per cent quarter on quarter. That\u2019s seven billion AWUs delivered to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Customers are seeing real ROI today. <a href=\"https:\/\/salesforce.com\/au\/customer-stories\/easypark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EasyPark<\/a> has reported 40 per cent year-on-year growth, supported by Agentforce. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/customer-stories\/the-grout-guy\/\">The Grout Guy<\/a> has also grown 40 per cent year-on-year. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/customer-stories\/sutton-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sutton Tools<\/a> saw online orders increase fourfold in the year they first started implementing Agentforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more businesses to achieve these results, a new approach to governing the risks and opportunities of AI transformation is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"h-trust-governance-compliant-and-safe-ai\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Trust governance: Compliant and safe AI<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/news\/stories\/ai-is-widespread-in-australian-workplaces-but-fragmentation-is-holding-back-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turn to consumer AI tools<\/a> when they believe enterprise alternatives cannot meet their needs. While this reflects enthusiasm for the technology, it also creates governance risks around data, security and compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There may be hundreds of agents lurking in businesses today. A unified control plane, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/au\/news\/stories\/agent-fabric-control-plane-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agent Fabric<\/a> ensures security, data access, logging, and costs are fully visible and rogue AI less likely to be whirring away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trailhead.salesforce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trailhead<\/a>, our free online learning platform, also supports workforce education and adoption so teams can get the most from approved and trusted AI. The answer is not simply tighter controls. It is ensuring approved enterprise AI is secure, reliable and genuinely useful in the flow of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"h-cost-governance-beyond-tokenomics\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Cost governance: Beyond Tokenomics<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An explosion of usage has for many companies resulted in an explosion in cost. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/05\/26\/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uber<\/a> used its entire AI budget in just four months.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reality is, not every task requires the most sophisticated or expensive model. There are both technical and commercial approaches which can help customers deliver both amazing innovation and prudent cost management.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, Agentforce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/cutting-inference-spend-by-right-sizing-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">originally ran on a single rented model<\/a> which meant the bill for tokens grew linearly with traffic. We broke out several different tasks and tuned them to specific open-source models to accomplish them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, these models run a growing share of Agentforce, cutting costs and running more effectively. Businesses need an approach that matches the right level of intelligence to the right task, balancing performance, risk and cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"h-roi-governance-the-five-per-cent-problem\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ROI governance: The five per cent problem<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/08\/18\/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MIT research<\/a> highlights the gap in reaching implementation and scale, with only five per cent of AI agents making it from pilot to production.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve seen a 70 per cent quarter on quarter increase in agents going into production, and we\u2019re aware how important it is for businesses to have a clear path to ROI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our advice is simple: start with focus and move with urgency. Initial projects should focus on quantifiable ROI rather than attempting to solve the most difficult, long-standing problems, allowing technology and function leaders to earn the right to move to larger, more complex implementations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is where Salesforce and our partner ecosystem\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/blog\/forward-deployed-engineer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Forward Deployed Engineers<\/a> (FDEs) can also help. They are embedded in our customer\u2019s teams to help them to remove blockers and accelerate AI adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the right approach and the right support, moving AI agents from pilot to production can happen faster, with less time spent in the sandbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"h-dreamforce-2026-is-almost-here\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dreamforce 2026 is almost here<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/dreamforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dreamforce 2026<\/a> must be our most anticipated yet. We have a chance to accelerate Australia and New Zealand\u2019s agentic enterprise transformation and we can\u2019t wait to show you how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Fillmann, EVP and GM, Australia and New Zealand Over the past three years, I\u2019ve spoken with hundreds of Aussie and Kiwi business leaders about what AI means for their employees, customers and business growth. Today\u2019s conversations focus on moving fast to capture the opportunity while managing trust, cost, and ROI. 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