Salesforce has introduced a technology platform that seeks to help public-sector organizations build applications intended to connect agencies with their employees, partners, suppliers and customers. Government Cloud Lightning has been developed as part of the company’s multitenant public cloud infrastructure and is designed for organizations at all levels of government as well as federally funded research-and-development centers and contractors, Salesforce said Thursday. Vivek Kundra, […] More

Salesforce.com and BlackBerry have partnered to develop a mobility product that combines Salesforce’s Customer Success Platform and BlackBerry’s enterprise mobility management tools in an effort to support the productivity, security and collaboration requirements of a mobile workforce. BlackBerry said Thursday its BES12 software works to deliver customer relationship management and device management to deliver mobile end-to-end services across enterprise mobile platforms. “This agreement will allow […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has observed that Silicon Valley-based technology companies have seen an opportunity to collaborate with federal agencies, she told the Washington Business Journal in an interview published Thursday. “Government is going out there,” Carlson told the Business Journal’s Jill Aitoro, in reference to the U.S. […] More

Salesforce has introduced its cloud computing service offering for government customers at a recent Salesforce-hosted conference held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that Vivek Kundra, a Salesforce executive vice president, spearheads the company’s push to extend its cloud business into the public sector. “As you […] More

Modernizing legacy systems is one of the top priorities in federal information technology for addressing adaptability and efficiency, Ann Braley-Smith writes in a piece posted on Dell’s blog Monday. According to Braley-Smith, agencies stand to benefit from technology upgrades by converting information silos into open data and addressing redundancy issues. The report cited studies that support […] More