Collaborate Disseminate
Emails from legitimate, compromised accounts are being sent to numerous enterprise employees with the aim of stealing their O365 credentials. Continue reading Microsoft Office 365 Credentials Under Attack By Fax ‘Alert’ Emails
Salesforce announced today that it has named Bret Taylor as president and chief operating officer of the company. Prior to today’s promotion, Taylor held the position of president and chief product officer. In his new position, Taylor will be responsible for a number of activities including leading Salesforce’s global product vision, engineering, security, marketing and […] Continue reading Salesforce promotes Bret Taylor to president and COO
When Salesforce bought Quip in 2016 for $750 million, it was fair to wonder what it planned to do with it. While company founder Bret Taylor has moved up the ladder to Chief Product Officer, Quip remained a stand-alone product. Today that changed when the company announced it was embedding Quip directly into its sales […] Continue reading Salesforce finally embedding Quip into platform, starting with Sales and Service Cloud
When Salesforce introduced Einstein, its artificial intelligence platform in 2016, it was laying the ground work for artificial intelligence underpinnings across the platform. Since then the company has introduced a variety of AI enhancements to the Salesforce product family. Today, customer service got some AI updates. The goal of any customer service interaction is to […] Continue reading Salesforce update brings AI and Quip to customer service chat experience
When Salesforce bought Quip, a document-based, mobile-first collaboration tool for $750 million last September, it may have seemed like an odd purchase, but Salesforce and Quip have been hard at work enhancing the product. Today at the Dreamforce… Continue reading Quip adds an App Store as it pushes toward full-blown collaboration platform
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 may have missed out on buying LinkedIn, but it has had a whopper of an acquisitions spree so far this year anyway. The enterprise cloud and CRM services company put down over $4 billion to buy seven startups in areas like workplace productivity, machine learning and e-commerce solutions, according to to the company’s 10-Q filed with the SEC today. The majority of that $4… Read More Continue reading Salesforce paid $110M for BeyondCore, made $4B+ in acquisitions in 6 months
Salesforce earnings came out today! They’re not great, either, and it looks like a weak outlook for the company’s third quarter is doing some damage to its shares which were down as much as 8%. For a company that literally defined the phrase “software as a service,” — basically, running your business online — and one that’s had a decent year (shares… Read More Continue reading Salesforce shares face plant despite beating analyst expectations
A new player has entered the enterprise productivity race. For decades, Microsoft reigned as the market leader in enterprise productivity — until Google pushed into the space with Google Apps. Now, with the acquisition of Quip, Salesforce is joining Microsoft and Google in the race. Read More Continue reading What Salesforce’s acquisition of Quip means for enterprise software startups
New apps focus on lightweight, mobile-first collaboration
Dropbox and Salesforce are both offering new tools for lightweight collaboration in business.
read more Continue reading Salesforce and Dropbox both want to be your company’s next SharePoint