State of the Connected Customer
AI-powered customer journeys

What You’ll Find in This Report

For the sixth edition of the “State of the Connected Customer” report, Salesforce surveyed 11,000 consumers and 3,300 business buyers worldwide to discover: • How economic shifts have reshaped customer expectations and behaviors • The changing ways that customers engage with companies across the buying lifecycle • Customer sentiments around new technologies like generative artificial intelligence (AI) Due to rounding, not all percentage totals in this report equal 100%. All comparison calculations are made from total numbers (not rounded numbers). Data in this report is from a double-blind survey conducted from May 3, 2023, through July 14, 2023. Respondents represent 25 countries across six continents. All respondents are third-party panelists. For further survey demographics, see page 28.