As the enterprise world adjusts to remote working, Salesforce pay $27.7 billion to acquire Slack for enhanced workplace collaboration

As the enterprise world adjusts to remote working, Salesforce pay $27.7 billion to acquire Slack for enhanced workplace collaboration
Offerings link to companies’ existing sales and operations systems, bringing data together and giving both sides a ‘360-degree view’ of the customer
US cloud services provider snaps up Israeli maker of workforce management and service solutions
The Open Data Initiative, announced last autumn to create a common data model for customer data, could pose a competitive threat to Salesforce
Annual sales of cloud software hit £79bn with long-established software vendors dominating the top five, but cloud-native firms showing the strongest growth
The outage began on Friday after the deployment of a database script that inadvertently granted users broad permissions over companies’ data
Relate 2018: Zendesk Sell integrates salesforce automation into Zendesk’s customer service tools, while Sunshine targets developers and Explore adds data analytics
Dreamforce 2018: The companies are to jointly redesign Salesforce’s mobile app and provide business developer tools for apps running on iOS and Salesforce’s Lightning Platform
Entry-level offering…simplified sales and customer service software that can scale as small businesses grow
ANALYSIS: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says tech giants, particularly Facebook & Twitter need to take full responsibility for ensuring they are used properly
OFFICE 365 NEWS: Microsoft says insights gained from LinkedIn can help users write better CVs
Salesforce will use Google cloud infrastructure for overseas expansion and will link its tools to Google’s cloud apps, a year after its AWS cloud deal
The Einstein artificial intelligence platform gets predictive models and automated chatbots, which can be set up in a few clicks
The AI Innovation Fund has started off by investing in AI startups in the areas of marketing, data management and natural language processing
Feel the love…CRM giant steps up effort to woo developers for its Einstein AI platform
Bluewolf MD Vera Loftis explains the implications behind Salesforce and IBM joining forces in artificial intelligence
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Salesforce focuses on the importance of customer experience in the midst of ‘fourth industrial revolution’
Salesforce is pushing its Einstein AI platform hard and personalisation is the order of the day
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Anne-Marie Imafidon, founder of the Stemettes, champions the need for more women spearheading startups
The deal means Salesforce users will become the latest to have IBM’s Watson AI technology available in their workplace
French start-up gains £130m funding from Salesforce and others to expand its IoT global network
Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff calls the company’s artificial intelligence push a game changer, but is the hype at Dreamforce conference justified?
The company’s latest acquisition is aimed at improving customer targeting capabilities
The first 14 tenants of the Salesforce’s latest incubator range from early stage startups to some who already have enterprise customers
Sour grapes? Salesforce lost its bid for LinkedIn, but now asks EU to investigate Microsoft
Salesforce has teamed up with Slack with the aim of integrating features from each other’s services over the coming months.
The tie-up will allow data to flow between Cisco and Salesforce platforms
BeyondCore will bolster Salesforce.com’s Cloud Analytics capabilities