Enterprise software companies are thinking along the same lines this week: a day after Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP committed to a data-oriented partnership across several of their products, Salesforce plans… Read More
Salesforce its strengthening its ties to Apple with a series of initiatives announced Monday, from exclusive iPhone and iPad features for the Salesforce mobile app to encouraging Salesforce developers to… Read More
For all the advancement in technology we’ve seen over the past few decades, the holy trinity of the information worker remains the word processor, the spreadsheet, and the presentation slide… Read More
Today’s featured stories Amazon reportedly investigating alleged incidents of third-party sellers paying employees to delete reviews and share secret sales data Salesforce co-founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne Benioff… Read More
The venerable newsmagazine Time, a nearly 100-year-old media institution, is about to have new owners — Marc Benioff, Salesforce chairman and co-CEO, and Lynne Benioff, his wife. If the proposed… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — West Coast tech leaders made the case this week that artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, and big data are essential tools for solving the global climate crisis.… Read More
Usually after a 27-percent jump in revenue that exceeded analyst expectations and set a record for the second fiscal quarter, a company like Salesforce could enjoy some after-hours love, but… Read More
Salesforce is open-sourcing the method it has developed for using machine-learning techniques at scale — without mixing valuable customer data — in hopes other companies struggling with data science problems… Read More
Salesforce continues to build out the non-salesy parts of its software-as-a-service portfolio, making new features for its Service Cloud generally available as of Wednesday and introducing a new feature for… Read More
Amazon is a pioneer in cloud computing, and the current market leader, but not the tech titan with the greatest future opportunity, according to a panel of technology CEOs who… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — At first glance, the gathering inside Building 99 at Microsoft this week looked like many others inside the company, as technical experts shared hard-earned lessons for using machine… Read More
The co-founders of Fullcast.io knew they wanted to create something together, but they had to wait until the timing was right. Dharmesh Singh and Bala Balabaskaran met more than a… Read More
Say you’re a software company needing to roll out a bunch of new features — and fast. One big customer is threatening to walk. Others are trying in vain to… Read More
Salesforce upended the traditional market for customer-relationship management software led by Oracle and SAP more than a decade ago, and it hasn’t looked back. Now SAP thinks it’s time for… Read More
One week after it opened its new tower in downtown San Francisco, Salesforce showed why it felt confident making that investment, posting strong gains in revenue and profit that exceeded… Read More
Most know Salesforce for its massive customer relationship management and cloud technology. But who keeps all of that data safe? The Infrastructure Security team is responsible for building the internal… Read More
The tech industry has a real struggle when it comes to attracting diverse talent, and Ada Developers Academy is doing something about that. The non-profit offers an intensive, tuition-free coding… Read More
Law and real estate expert Nelson Del Rio is taking on a new role at Seattle startup Blokable, one of last year’s Seattle 10 companies. Del Rio, who co-founded the startup… Read More
Cloud services and customer relationship management giant Salesforce is headquartered in San Francisco, but it’s increasingly making the Seattle region a second home. Salesforce has a large presence in Bellevue,… Read More
Salesforce just made the largest acquisition in its history, snapping up MuleSoft for $6.5 billion in order to help it work with customers operating hybrid cloud strategies. The deal appears… Read More
For lots of people, trying to use powerful analytics tools without a little training in the language of data science is like lining up for a Formula One race without… Read More
The market for Salesforce’s cloud-based sales and marketing tools continues to be hot, as the company posted records for fourth-quarter and full-year revenue Wednesday on the back of strong growth… Read More
First, the bad news when it comes to Software as a Service in 2018: The market is maturing. Growth is expected to cool a bit. And artificial intelligence, according to… Read More
Oracle has been the loudest of the legacy enterprise tech vendors when it comes to attacking the leader of the new guard over the past few years, and Amazon Web… Read More
Salesforce continues to post strong revenue growth on its quest to put its marketing technology in the hands of every business on earth, beating financial analyst expectations for revenue and… Read More
Global revenue in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry topped $43 billion in the first half of 2017 — up 23 percent from a year ago, making up nearly… Read More
Salesforce is teaming up with Google on several fronts, integrating Salesforce data into Google’s G Suite business productivity software and using Google Cloud as it expands internationally, Salesforce announced Monday.… Read More
Salesforce plans to use its largest event of the year this week to highlight how its flagship salesforce-management service is evolving around changing trends in tech, including artificial intelligence and… Read More
As the Internet of Things becomes a thing, adopters are generating lots of data that isn’t necessarily making its way into the sales and marketing process. Salesforce is ready to… Read More
This was my litmus test for Satya Nadella’s new book: Does he write about his Grace Hopper debacle? The answer is yes. “Hit Refresh” addresses head-on the biggest public stumble… Read More