TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Spiff, a platform that automates commission management for sales teams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

After laying off 8,000 staffers in January, Salesforce is now planning to hire at least 3,300 employees. In August, Salesforce released a new no-code , interface-based AI and generative AI model training tool, dubbed Einstein Studio , as part of its Data Cloud offering. The plan includes rehiring some of the former employees.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

The enterprise is about to get hit by the generative AI hype train, as Salesforce prepares to invest in startups developing what it calls “responsible generative AI.” It has also previously launched a dedicated AI fund , targeting startups building AI smarts on top of Salesforce.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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CIO

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Salesforce is updating its Data Cloud with vector database and Einstein Copilot Search capabilities in an effort to help enterprises use unstructured data for analysis. The Einstein 1 platform , in turn, is a data engine with a low code and no code interface that is designed to let enterprises connect data to build AI-based applications.

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CIO

MARCH 2, 2023

The results helped boost Salesforce’s total revenue for financial year 2023 to $31.4 Despite the revenue gains, Salesforce posted a fourth-quarter loss of $98 million, compared with a loss of $28 million in the same quarter last year, due mainly to restructuring costs that included layoff-related expenses.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Cloud-based CRM software provider Salesforce has become the latest technology company to announce mass layoffs, cutting at least hundreds of jobs from its 73,000-person workforce. Unfortunately, that can lead to some leaving the business, and we support them through their transition,” Salesforce said in a statement confirming the layoffs.

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CIO

JULY 25, 2023

Salesforce is adding new features to its Commerce Cloud that will help organizations embed digital commerce capabilities into sales, service, or marketing processes to drive more revenue, the company said on Tuesday. The Reorder Portal can be used by organizations to offer their customers personalized buying opportunities, Salesforces said.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Generative AI will soon be everywhere — including in Salesforce’s Net Zero Cloud environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting tool. Net Zero Cloud uses data held within the Salesforce platform to help enterprises report on their carbon footprint and manage other social and governance metrics.

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DevOps.com

APRIL 25, 2024

Copado's genAI tool automates testing in Salesforce software-as-a-service (SaaS) application environments.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Proving that there’s an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to retrieve and update data across Salesforce’s various systems. and others prior to the Salesforce purchase. Troops managed to raise $19.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

News that Salesforce is interested in buying Slack , the popular workplace chat company, sent shares of the smaller firm sharply higher today. Inversely, shares of Salesforce are trading lower on the news, falling around 3.5% TechCrunch reached out to Salesforce, Slack and Slack’s CEO for comment on the deal’s possibility.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2023

CRM giant Salesforce today said that it would commit $250 million to investments in startups focused on generative AI, even as the company warned of the dangers of the technology. Yet, Salesforce warns, there are real downsides to slapdash or careless development of generative AI systems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

He is a Salesforce DevOps specialist focused on the next generation of DevOps on the Salesforce platform. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 70% of enterprise applications will be built on low-code and no-code platforms such as Salesforce and ServiceNow. These are the super user permissions for Salesforce. MAD and VAD.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2023

Salesforce previewed new capabilities for its Field Service application suite on Tuesday, giving an early look at a new mobile application powered by the company’s EinsteinGPT generative AI engine. AI-generated work summarization can include contextual information, images and text.

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CIO

AUGUST 2, 2023

Salesforce has made its customer relationship management (CRM) suite, dubbed Starter, generally available in an effort to garner more market share in the small and medium businesses (SMBs) segment as it faces stiff competition from rivals such as Zoho. So, what is Salesforce Starter?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental data gap in Africa, has raised $4 million in seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and the Female Founders Fund.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One of those changes is that I’m now leading Perficient’s Salesforce business unit as the Managing Director. I’ve had the opportunity to work in the Salesforce ecosystem for 8+ years with top-notch talent. I’m eager to inspire and guide our team through our #growthera and drive adoption of Salesforce globally.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Six-year-old Bangalore-based fintech Razorpay, which was valued at $3 billion in a financing round in April this year, has courted one more high-profile investor: Salesforce Ventures. ” Monday’s deal is Salesforce Ventures’ second investment in the Indian startup ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Aiming to lighten the development load around Salesforce’s ecosystem in particular, Sweep today emerged from stealth with a no-code toolkit for building sales playbooks in Salesforce’s CRM software. Sweep’s visual editor for sales funnels in Salesforce software. Image Credits: Sweep.

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CIO

JANUARY 4, 2023

Almost two months after cloud-based CRM software provider Salesforce announced it would be cutting around 950 jobs , the company has announced it will lay off about 10% of its workforce, roughly 8,000 employees, and close some offices as part of a restructuring plan. Salesforce said these costs consist of up to $1.4 billion and $2.1

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

AutoRabit , which provides CI/CD tools for Salesforce customer dev teams, today announced that it raised $26 million in a Series B funding round led by Full In Partners, bringing the startup’s total raised to $52.5 ” There’s certainly an appetite for tools and services built on top of the Salesforce ecosystem.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2022

For years, auto makers and dealers have used Salesforce for CRM — but it’s involved a hodge-podge of company-specific customizations. Now Salesforce is hoping to sweep that away with Salesforce Automotive Cloud, a dedicated platform for the auto industry that sticks close to industry standards on data exchange.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Salesforce skills are among the most sought-after in the IT industry and demand is soaring. The most performant CRM system today, Salesforce is a core technology for digital business, and its associated applications and ecosystem help make it in a leading platform for those seeking a lucrative IT career.

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CIO

JULY 13, 2023

Salesforce, according to a company blog post published on Tuesday, said that it would be increasing prices across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Industries, and Tableau by an average of 9% from August, after seven years of no price hikes. How will customers deal with the Salesforce price hikes?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

The new round — a Series C — for the Hyderabad-headquartered startup was led by Salesforce Ventures, the venture arm of the American enterprise giant. This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia. Salesforce Ventures is exploring more investment opportunities in India, he said.

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2023

Generative AI has become a top priority among businesses even though IT leaders are expressing concerns about potential ethical issues posed by the technology, according to a new Salesforce survey. It also precedes the launch later this week of the company’s EinsteinGPT, which Benioff said will complement the company’s Einstein technology.

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Perficient

MARCH 5, 2024

Enter Salesforce Blockchain, a revolutionary technology integrated into the Salesforce platform, offering new possibilities for business transformation. What is Salesforce Blockchain? Salesforce Blockchain lets you securely share data with partners. It uses a distributed ledger and works with Salesforce.

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Perficient

MARCH 6, 2024

Where performance and use cases become really powerful in healthcare is when the organization has a solution like Salesforce Data Cloud or Health Cloud with integration to the electronic medical record. We have an amazing team of Marketing Cloud Personalization Accredited Professionals ready to help!

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CIO

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Enterprises worldwide are not tapping the potential of their data when making critical business decisions and navigating uncertain macroeconomic conditions, according to a Salesforce survey. Salesforce acquired visual analytics software provider Tableau in August 2019.

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CIO

JUNE 7, 2023

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has made a number of changes to the company’s management team, six months after the company’s co-CEO Bret Taylor announced he was leaving the organization. Before joining Celonis in 2020, Milano held the role of president of Salesforce in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

When the three founders of Faros AI were working at Salesforce , they helped develop the company’s artificial intelligence, known as Einstein. Faros AI CEO and co-founder Vitaly Gordon said that despite Salesforce’s vast resources, they still suffered from a dearth of data and a lack of adequate tools for collecting it.

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