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Salesforce also offered tips about right-sizing generative AI and granted $2 million to AI nonprofit contest winners. Continue reading Dreamforce 2023: Salesforce Net Zero Cloud Automates Writing ESG Reports
Salesforce just closed a $28 billion mega-deal to buy Slack, generating significant debt along the way, but it’s not through spending big money. Today the CRM giant announced it was taking a leap into streaming media with Salesforce+, a forthcoming digital media network with a focus on video that, in the words of the company, […] Continue reading Salesforce wants Salesforce+ to be the Netflix of biz content
Dreamforce, Salesforce’s massive customer conference is coming later this month to San Francisco, but the news is starting already well ahead of the event. Today, the company announced updates to its core Sales Cloud with an emphasis toward automation and integration. For starters, the company wants to simplify inside phone sales, giving the team not […] Continue reading Salesforce updates Sales Cloud ahead of Dreamforce with increased automation
Salesforce has a history of staying close to the cutting edge of technology, so it shouldn’t be surprising that it announced an artificial intelligence initiative recently, it dubbed Einstein.
We caught up with some key members of the Einstein team at Dreamforce earlier this month and asked them to explain the new technology for us.
Einstein isn’t a product so much as a set of… Read More Continue reading Salesforce looks to the future with Einstein artificial intelligence
Last year Apttus, which provides pricing, quoting and contract building on the Salesforce platform was growing at a crazy rate. It appeared to be headed to IPO or a Salesforce purchase when it got a punch to the gut. Salesforce bought Steelbrick instead.
Sources say, Apttus might have gotten greedy, thinking it was the only enterprise CPQ product out there that provided the best fit for… Read More Continue reading Apttus looks to the future with bots and virtual reality
Salesforce has been on a shopping spree this year, spending in the neighborhood of $5-6 billion on 10 companies. That’s why it was interesting to hear company president, vice chairman and COO, Keith Block talk about what they look for in an acquisition target at a press conference at Dreamforce this week. This is particularly true in the context of rumors that Salesforce was interested… Read More Continue reading The method in Salesforce’s M&A madness
When Salesforce purchased Quip last summer for $750 million, it seemed on its face to be an unusual acquisition for the cloud CRM company. Salesforce tends to go hard for more vertical targets like Demandware, which it purchased for 2.8 billion last June.
In fact, at a press conference this week at Dreamforce, Salesforce president, vice chairman and COO — yes, he has all those titles… Read More Continue reading Salesforce took a horizontal turn when it bought Quip
Salesforce chairman and CEO Marc Benioff knows a thing or two about how to put on a good show, and as usual he pulled out all the stops this week at Dreamforce, his company’s massive customer conference in San Francisco. He was boasting at the keynote that 175,000 people registered online (and another 15 million were watching online). I can tell you most people I spoke to… Read More Continue reading Lights, cameras, Dreamforce
Zenefits announced this week, it was making a licensing compliance app it created in-house to ensure its sales people are properly licensed to sell insurance in a given state, available for free to anyone to download from the Salesforce App Exchange. Last winter Zenefits was sailing along providing HR services in the cloud for small and medium businesses when a bombshell hit. Buzzfeed… Read More Continue reading Zenefits makes licensing compliance app available for free in the Salesforce App Exchange