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in Industry News, NewsSalesforce, IBM to Merge Cloud, AI Offerings as Part of Partnership Expansion
Salesforce and IBM will combine their cloud and artificial intelligence offerings and expand their strategic partnership to help companies connect and boost collaboration with client organizations. IBM said Friday the companies will merge the IBM Cloud and Watson services with Salesforce Quip and Salesforce Service Cloud Einstein to create new IBM WatsonQuip Live applications designed to […] More
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in Healthcare IT, NewsPhilips, Salesforce.com Alliance to Offer Healthcare Tech Platform; Marc Benioff Comments
Royal Philips and salesforce.com have formed a partnership to combine their respective medical technology, clinical informatics, cloud computing and customer engagement offerings to develop an open source, cloud-based healthcare IT platform. The parties said Thursday the platform will be designed to enable personal health management and remote health monitoring and support the Philips Hospital to Home programs. “We have entered […] More
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John Roos, Robin Washington Join Salesforce.com Board of Directors
John V. Roos, a former CEO of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and Robin Washington of Gilead Sciences, have joined the board of directors at Salesforce.com. Their appointments took effect Sept. 10 and they succeed former VeriSign CEO Stratton Sclavos and former General Motors Corporate Vice President Shirley Young, Salesforce.com said Sept. 12. Roos worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & […] More
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in CloudSalesforce, Oracle Forge Cloud Computing Alliance; Marc Benioff, Larry Ellison Comment
Salesforce.com and Oracle have formed a partnership to combine their applications, platforms and infrastructures in an effort to help customers implement cloud-based services. Oracle will also power Salesforce’s applications and platform while the latter will use Oracle's Fusion HCM and Financial cloud applications, Oracle said Tuesday. Salesforce will integrate Linux operating system, Exadata engineered systems, […] More
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Salesforce to Buy Cloud Marketing Firm for $2.5B; Scott Dorsey Comments
Salesforce.com has agreed to acquire cloud marketing firm ExactTarget for about $2.5 billion cash, or $33.75 per share, in a move to bolster its portfolio of customer relationship management products. Salesforce expects to close the deal late in its fiscal second quarter, which ends July 31, Salesforce said Tuesday. The transaction aims to create a […] More
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in NewsSalesforce Aims for Data Center to Grow Cloud Services Portfolio; Marc Benioff Comments
Salesforce.com has selected an NTT Communications subsidiary to build a data center intended to help Salesforce customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa adopt cloud computing services. NTT Europe will build the center in the U.K. and is scheduled to complete work by 2014, Salesforce said Thursday. Marc Benioff, Salesforce chairman and CEO, said […] More
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in NewsSalesforce Promotes George Hu to COO
Salesforce.com has promoted George Hu to the chief operating officer post, effective immediately. Hu was previously executive vice president of platform, marketing and operations He will continue to report to Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff. In his new role, Hu will be responsible for the company’s major shared operational functions, including information technology, corporate development, strategic […] More
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in Cloud, Industry NewsSalesforce.com Acquires Assistly; CEO Marc Benioff Comments
Salesforce.com has announced its acquisition of Assistly. The firm enables small companies to deliver social customer-service in minutes. The acquisition will expand the Service Cloud to reach millions of small and emerging businesses. “Salesforce has spent over a decade democratizing enterprise applications in the cloud,“ said Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer, salesforce.com. “The […] More
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Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff to Deliver Keynote Speech at Dreamforce 2011
Salesforce.com announced today that its chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will deliver the keynote address for the opening of Dreamforce 2011, a cloud computing conference scheduled from Aug. 20 to Sept. 2 in San Francisco. According to Salesforce.com, Benioff will outline the company’s vision for the social enterprise during his speech. “Each year at Dreamforce, […] More