When making business plans, the accuracy of your sales forecasting can make or break companies and careers. Salesforce thinks it has found a way to improve forecasting accuracy in its… Read More
Boeing announced a structural reorganization this week to combine its safety, quality and manufacturing processes into one division, bringing several leadership changes along for the ride. Walt Odisho, formerly the company’s… Read More
With so much competition for top technical talent, it’s no surprise that tech companies are well-represented on Indeed’s annual ranking of the top 50 places to work. In the tech… Read More
Salesforce is expanding its Einstein artificial intelligence services for developers writing apps on its platform, launching three new services that help marketers measure brand sentiment and even recognize pictures of… Read More
— Apptio, the Bellevue, Wash. company that makes software to help CIOs better understand spending in IT departments, has added Zillow Chief Financial Officer Kathleen Philips to its board. According to a… Read More
Salesforce enjoyed a nice first quarter of 2017, beating analyst expectations for both revenue and profit while raising guidance for the full year. The salesforce-management cloud software company took in… Read More
Salesforce.com updated its app program Tuesday, announcing the new AppExchange Partner Program at an event in New York. The new system gives developers building apps on top of Salesforce.com new… Read More
LinkedIn has surpassed 500 million members globally, one of the first big milestones for the business social network since its acquisition by Microsoft for more than $26 billion last year. The news… Read More
Rooftop decks. Mindfulness zones. Sports bars. This year’s finalists for the Geekiest Office Space in the GeekWire Awards have it all. These unique spaces create a powerful environment where workers… Read More
Amazon Web Services just unveiled a new service for running call centers, dubbed Amazon Connect, leveraging the same technology used by Amazon.com’s own customer service system to route and manage calls using automatic speech… Read More
Artificial intelligence is going to transform and impact many jobs, and it is up to the companies building the technology and government agencies regulating it to make sure it is… Read More
Salesforce is introducing a new wave of artificial intelligence technologies under its Einstein initiative this morning, including the first AI technology from the fledgling Salesforce Research group — a project called… Read More
IBM and Salesforce will work together on artificial intelligence under a surprise partnership announced this afternoon. The companies will combine aspects of their respective AI technologies — IBM’s Watson and Salesforce’s… Read More
Call centers ain’t what they used to be. That’s because customers rely on an increasingly wide range of tools to connect with businesses, including social media, email, texting, and other… Read More
Salesforce wants its employees to feel at “home” inside the company’s new Bellevue office. That’s how Elizabeth Pinkham, EVP of Real Estate for Salesforce, described the vibe inside the 70,000… Read More
One of the world’s fastest growing enterprise software companies today opened the doors to its new home in the Seattle area. San Francisco-based cloud services giant Salesforce on Wednesday officially cut the ribbon… Read More
Quip, a maker of cloud-based document-management tools that is owned by Salesforce, has acquired Unity&Variety, a small San Francisco maker of productivity tools, for an undisclosed sum. “We’re hyped to announce that starting… Read More
Microsoft’s deal to buy professional social network LinkedIn for $26.2 billion has officially closed. Microsoft announced completion of the deal, the largest in Microsoft’s history, just two days after getting… Read More
Cloud leader Amazon Web Services and CRM giant Salesforce will expand their strategic alliance — delivering five new service integrations and making Salesforce offerings available through AWS in Canada as part of… Read More
Software-as-a-service pioneer Salesforce reported revenue of $2.14 billion, up 25 percent year over year, and a deepening net loss of $37.31 million for its third-quarter FY17 period ended Oct. 31.… Read More
Despite his wishful predictions that Donald Trump would never become president, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested on Monday evening that people forget their anxiety and give Trump a chance – at least initially. Speaking at the Code… Read More
Twitter confirmed it will cut approximately 9 percent of its workforce, or about 350 people, primarily as a reorganization of the company’s sales, partnership and marketing efforts. The possibility of… Read More
Social media giant Twitter may be on the verge of cutting approximately 300 jobs, or about 8 percent of its workforce, according to a report from Bloomberg Monday evening. Layoffs… Read More
Steve Ballmer likes Twitter. But he thinks it could be even better with a new owner: Google. The former Microsoft CEO appeared on CNBC Friday and touched on a number… Read More
Microsoft is still buying LinkedIn, in case anyone is wondering. Last month, rival LinkedIn bidder Salesforce indicated it planned to ask regulators in the U.S. and Europe to investigate the deal,… Read More
What companies are on the wish list of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff? Leaked emails from former Secretary of State Colin Powell — who has served on the board of Salesforce.com… Read More
Salesforce will take a pass on buying Twitter, according to a Financial Times report on Friday quoting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. “In this case, we’ve walked away. It wasn’t the right… Read More
Microsoft in an extensive demo today unveiled the capabilities of its Azure-based Dynamics 365 service announced in July — describing it as a significant undertaking combining its customer relations management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) offerings… Read More
Salesforce.com Inc. has agreed to acquire San Francisco startup Krux, in a bid by the cloud-software giant to bolster its marketing-data and analytics segment, the Wall Street Journal reported. Salesforce is paying about $700… Read More
Salesforce wanted to acquire LinkedIn earlier this year, but ultimately it was Microsoft that agreed to pay $26.2 billion for the business social network in July. But now, with the deal still… Read More