{"id":232554,"date":"2026-03-04T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ai-threatens-to-eat-business-software-and-it-could-change-the-way-we-work"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:06:36","slug":"ai-threatens-to-eat-business-software-and-it-could-change-the-way-we-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ai-threatens-to-eat-business-software-and-it-could-change-the-way-we-work","title":{"rendered":"AI threatens to eat business software\u2014and it could change the way we work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-threatens-to-eat-business-software-and-it-could-change-the-way-we-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, a range of large \u201csoftware-as-a-service\u201d companies, including Salesforce, ServiceNow and Oracle, have seen their share prices tumble.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you\u2019ve never used these companies\u2019 software tools, there\u2019s a good chance your employer has. These tools manage key data about customers, employees, suppliers and products, supporting everything from payroll and purchasing to customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Now new \u201cagentic\u201d artificial intelligence (AI) tools for business are expected to reduce reliance on traditional software for everyday work. These include Anthropic\u2019s Cowork, OpenAI\u2019s Frontier and open-source agent platforms such as OpenClaw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks, a range of large \u201csoftware-as-a-service\u201d companies, including Salesforce, ServiceNow and Oracle, have seen their share prices tumble. Even if you\u2019ve never used these companies\u2019 software tools, there\u2019s a good chance your employer has. These tools manage key data about customers, employees, suppliers and products, supporting everything from payroll and purchasing to customer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}