Salesforce has entered into a definitive agreement with Tableau Software to acquire the company in a transaction worth a potential value of $15.7 billion, Salesforce announced on Monday. The deal is projected to provide Salesforce a $400 million increase in revenue by 2020.

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Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, a former president of global sales at Salesforce and current venture partner at New Enterprise Associates, has joined the board of directors of automation technology provider DataRobot.

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Cloud Pathfinder Consulting and Liberty IT Solutions have teamed up to assist government agencies in the deployment of information technology services through the Salesforce platform.

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Jennifer Ward, senior director of solutions engineering at Salesforce, said using a specific cloud computing model can help federal agencies modernize systems, save money and increase customer satisfaction.

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Bethesda, Md.-based cloud services provider CoreSphere has received a Gold Consulting Partner status in recognition of its efforts to help government customers migrate enterprise applications to the Salesforce platform.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 6, 2019 — TechnoMile has worked with ArchIntel, provider of a customized, human intelligence-powered daily briefing service, to develop a tool that works to enable the latter’s customers to share and access content on the Salesforce platform, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 27. The ArchIntel Salesforce Connector is designed to support collaboration, […] More

Jude Boyle, a 16-year government market veteran, has joined Salesforce's MuleSoft subsidiary as assistant vice president for federal sales, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

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Todd Schroeder, vice president of government digital strategy at Salesforce, has said digital platforms can help agencies transform information technology, business and workflow processes. He wrote in an article published Monday that a platform will allow government users to collaborate on programs and across departments, as well as manage customer service. “Digital transformation isn’t about preserving […] More

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority in California has implemented a Salesforce-powered unified payment system for local commuters to pay for travel through a single digital hub. Publicis.Sapient helped LA Metro architect and launch the TAPforce on the Salesforce Platform to serve as a “one-stop shop” for payment transactions and program registrations across multiple account-based transport options throughout […] More

Salesforce has submitted recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget through a public comment on OMB’s draft of an updated federal cloud computing strategy. Dave Rey, executive vice president of Salesforce’s North American public sector business, told Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent in a written response to the Cloud Smart Strategy proposal that OMB should include customer experience objectives in the draft policy. […] More

The Washington D.C. Office of Unified Communications has chosen Salesforce to help the agency transition its system for responding nonemergency calls from a server-based platform to a cloud environment. OUC migrated its 311 system onto the Salesforce Service Cloud equipped with the artificial intelligence-based Einstein Analytics tool in an effort to reduce call hold times and system downtime scenarios, […] More

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has chosen Salesforce to provide cloud computing and analytics platforms to support the agency’s digital modernization effort. CBP will implement Salesforce’s Analytics, Community Cloud and Service Cloud products to update agency personnel management process, manage activities along U.S. borders and engage citizens, the company said Tuesday. “There is a huge opportunity […] More