Announcement ·
Salesforce France prepares to set up an FDE practice
Original title, in French: “Salesforce France prépare la mise en place d’une pratique FDE”
- Publication
- LeMagIT (France) · subscribers only
- Author
- Gaétan Raoul
- Published on
- 23 September 2026 · read in the page structured data
Summary
Salesforce France is recruiting around a hundred people by February to create a team of Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), according to Bruno Katz, deputy managing director of the French entity. These engineers, who specialise in agentic programming and AI systems integration, will work directly at the most strategic customers to accelerate the large-scale deployment of Agentforce agents. Salesforce has also created a global network of FDE partners including Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini, IBM Consulting, KPMG, PwC, Slalom and Tata Consultancy Services. Bruno Katz states that France ranks first in Europe for the adoption of AI and Agentforce, citing adoption by major customers such as Adecco and L'Oréal. The vendor is seeking to avoid tensions with IT services companies (ESNs) by limiting its FDEs' involvement to 90 days on the most complex projects.
Summary based on the full text of the article.
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100 people
number of people hired by Salesforce France for the FDE team
Salesforce France, by February
« En France, nous recrutons une centaine de personnes d’ici février, dont une majorité de “bâtisseurs”. »
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109 positions
number of open FDE positions at Salesforce worldwide
Salesforce, worldwide, at the time the article was written
« Au moment d’écrire ces lignes, LeMagIT compte 109 postes ouverts chez Salesforce liés de près ou de loin à cette pratique. »
Source: LeMagIT
Classification
- Country
- France
- Company size
- Large companies
- Industries
- Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms · Consulting, legal, accounting, business services · All industries, or industry not specified
- Companies
- Tata Consultancy Services (cited), KPMG (cited), L'Oréal (deploys AI), Deloitte (cited), Salesforce (supplier), PwC (cited), IBM Consulting (cited), Slalom (cited), Capgemini (cited), Adecco (deploys AI), Accenture (cited)
- Keywords
- agentforce, agentic ai, forward deployed engineering, recruitment, salesforce, crm deployment
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