Dave Rey, president of Salesforce Global Public Sector, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s recent growth initiatives and how its driving value and customer success. In addition, Dave Rey also discussed how recent acquisition are benefiting Salesforce’s portfolio as well as how IT modernization is driving improvements in network and platforms as well as data management […] More

Raj Shankar, vice president of digital transformation and GTM at Salesforce, shared in a recent Executive Spotlight interview what attracted him to the company and how it can help aerospace and defense businesses gain insights with digital technology. “My goal in joining the company was to be a part of the leading industry and go […] More

Michael Parker, vice president of business development with Salesforce, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the reasons why he wanted to join the company in his current role and bring his 34 years of experience in the public sector to the Salesforce team.  In addition, Parker also discussed the core values of the company culture that have driven its success […] More

Juan Perez, chief information and engineering officer at United Parcel Service, will join Salesforce on April 4 to serve as CIO, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. He has been with UPS for 32 years and led the Atlanta-based logistics company’s advanced technology group, which focused on identifying and conducting experiments with blockchain and other […] More

Salesforce has launched a new cloud platform designed to help government agencies, health care institutions and other organizations manage and implement their vaccine programs. Vaccine Cloud could help public health agencies, health care providers and nonprofit organizations schedule vaccination appointments, manage staff training, logistics and inventory, facilitate recipient registration and streamline vaccine outcome monitoring.

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A coalition of technology and health companies has launched an initiative that intends to enable individuals to obtain digital access to their COVID-19 vaccination records based on interoperable, open standards. Coalition members that are advancing the Vaccination Credential Initiative include Cerner, CARIN Alliance, Change Healthcare, Evernorth, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Mitre, Safe Health, Oracle, Salesforce and The Commons Project Foundation.

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IBM and Salesforce have teamed up to help government agencies, businesses and schools verify an individual's health and vaccine status to enable them to safely reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership will facilitate the integration of IBM Digital Health Pass with the Salesforce Work.com platform to provide organizations with a single tool for making data-driven decisions as they work to streamline communications, initiate actions and reduce risks.

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Government agencies from across the globe have used Salesforce to manage multiple functions of COVID-19 vaccination programs. Over 15 agencies from all levels of government have adopted the Salesforce platform for efforts to administer these programs, deliver the vaccines and inform the masses, the cloud software company said Wednesday.

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Laura Boufford, former regional vice president of aerospace sales at Salesforce, has been named director of federal civilian sales at Google, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. Her technology industry experience encompasses the areas of cloud computing, enterprise information technology and software as a service.

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The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services has implemented a cloud application that is built on the Salesforce platform and designed to monitor the supply of naloxone, a medication for patients who have overdosed on opioids.

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Copado has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to distribute in the public sector market a technology offering designed to help organizations build and deploy software applications on the Salesforce platform.

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Billy Kliner, a more than two-decade project and program management professional, has been named Salesforce practice lead at Steampunk.

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