SalesForce

Wipro buys 4C worth of extra Salesforce expertise

Slurps quote-to-cash specialist to boost Cloud business unit that's already big with SAP and Oracle

Software24 Jul 2020 | 2

Leaving Las Salesforce: Paul Smith fashions a new role at ServiceNow

No, not the Nottingham-born designer of natty suits, the former Proctor & Gamble chap who also spent time in the channel

SaaS08 Jul 2020 | 2

Salesforce plans to write Slack integration out of the equation by rolling its own messaging and collaboration app

Salesforce Anywhere beta due to drop in July, full release in Q4

SaaS25 Jun 2020 | 3

Pipped to the post: Google Cloud nabs Salesforce exec to lead UK and Ireland business

Pip White among bunch of new EMEA hires at Chocolate Factory offshoot

SaaS05 Jun 2020 | 1

UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems

We want COTS, industry-standard processes... you know... make yourself replaceable

On-Prem02 Jun 2020 | 18

Workday chops up to $85m off subscription forecast for fiscal 2021 in response to pandemic

Thows arms around Salesforce and Microsoft in cloudy cuddle

SaaS28 May 2020 |

UK housing association Places for People hands £21m to Salesforce to look after CRM and job scheduling

Tender loving care

SaaS15 May 2020 | 6

Contact-tracing is basically CRM so we think we've got it sorted, says Salesforce

Coming real soon now as-a-service. Details on data collection and price? Coming soon, promise

Software05 May 2020 | 3

Salesforce chief Marc Benioff gets clear view of pandemic, 'new balance' from guru pal

Comment Be. Nice. To. People

Bootnotes04 May 2020 | 11

Lars Ulrich threatens to make another Metallica album during web chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff

You know what, Lars? We're OK

Bootnotes30 Apr 2020 | 63

Looks like Benioff will go without new Italian shoes for a month: Details of Salesforce's $5m small biz grant emerge

Need $10k off CRM giant? Read on, though it's not a silver bullet

Legal22 Apr 2020 | 1

Salesforce publishes self-themed activity book to keep your kids ‘Appy

A new use for App Exchange, with that slightly greasy Ronald McDonald vibe

Bootnotes03 Apr 2020 | 3

Salesforce founder Marc Benioff tossed $2.3m in return for bumper company growth

Enterprise cloud rains bonus down on software supremo... that's this year's holiday sorted then

SaaS01 Apr 2020 |

Salesforce's revolving door spins amid shopping spree: Co-CEO out, BT alumnus G-Patz up, Vlocity slurped

Plus: World Tour Sydney event goes online only over coronavirus

SaaS26 Feb 2020 | 1

We sense a great disturbance in the Salesforce: File-slinging feature breaks down for more than 12 hours

It felt as if millions of SaaS customers suddenly cried out in frustration, then headed off for the weekend early

SaaS20 Sep 2019 | 6

UK.gov confirms: Yes, our former DWP perm sec will join Salesforce

No lobbying for at least another five months

Software18 Sep 2019 | 11

10 months of Jeremy Kyle later*, ex-BT boss Gavin Patterson shacks up with Salesforce

Guess it's time to put down the crisps and get off the couch, Gav ...

SaaS05 Sep 2019 | 7

A Pivotal moment for VMware: Software biz gobbled up along with Carbon Black for $5bn

Meanwhile, Salesforce sees profits fall

Virtualization23 Aug 2019 | 7

Salesforce takes the multi-signer DNSSEC ball and runs with it

Extending DNS security protocol to multiple platforms takes root

Networks15 Aug 2019 | 3

Shopaholic Salesforce flashes $1.35bn, sucks up field service biz ClickSoftware into cloudy arm

Greased Field Service Lightning

SaaS08 Aug 2019 |

Salesforce shells out $15.7bn for data viz biz Tableau

Because nobody really likes spreadsheets

Software10 Jun 2019 | 17

Salesforce CEO: Digital transformers, more than meets the eye (Autobots are coining it for you)

Anyone who thinks otherwise should Benioff

SaaS05 Jun 2019 | 1

Salesfarce to Failsforce: Salesforce database blunder outage enters day three as fix falters

El Reg tunes into customer conference calls to hear SVP of engineering apologize

SaaS20 May 2019 | 29

Salesforce? Salesfarce: Cloud giant in multi-hour meltdown after database blunder grants users access to all data

Updated Plug pulled on instances as engineers scramble to protect customer info

Databases17 May 2019 | 45

Do you want salt with that? Salesforce phallus 'shopped out' of Oracle Park calendar cover

Nah, it's just an old photo, claims spokesborg

Software10 Apr 2019 | 16

Humanitarian champ or sex-trafficking profiteer? Fresh sueball argues Salesforce is the latter

CRM biz accused of knowingly helping epic rise of abuse website Backpage

Software27 Mar 2019 | 22

Salesforce has named a chief ethics officer and yes, the job description is appropriately woolly

What's she going to do? 'Engage' with people

SaaS11 Dec 2018 | 12

SaaSy Salesforce's EMEA arm hands over £5m to Brit taxman

Tax efficient biz makes 1.73 pre-tax profit % on £1.508bn local sales in fiscal '18

SaaS06 Nov 2018 | 2

Salesforce dogged by protests, leaked emails, and guerrilla blimps on first day of Dreamforce

Oh, and the last shreds of Metallica's credibility disappearing on stage

SaaS26 Sep 2018 | 48

Salesforce supremo Benioff buys Time magazine for $190m

Are we seeing the rise of a new era of media moguls?

SaaS17 Sep 2018 | 18

Let's get ethical, says Salesforce as revenues rocket 27% – thanks in part to US Border Patrol

Benioff: CEOs just want to spend, spend, spend

SaaS30 Aug 2018 | 10

Salesforce boss Marc Benioff objects to US immigration policy so much, he makes millions from, er, US immigration

Billionaire bashed with 'hypocrisy' stick by activists

On-Prem24 Aug 2018 | 36

Oracle-botherer Rimini Street throws off credit shackles, plans 'aggressive' sales drive

Revenues, clients up in Q2 2018

Software10 Aug 2018 | 2

Salesforce takes leaf out of Oracle's book to forge little co-CEO bromance

Room for another ego at the top, Benioff?

SaaS08 Aug 2018 |

Salesforce cloud glitch blurted customer data at unauthorised users

Put your minds at REST ... there's no 'evidence of malicious behavior'

SaaS06 Aug 2018 | 4

Salesforce slurps up cloudy Israeli AI marketing biz for 'around $800m'

It does cloud, it does AI, it does analytics - how many more boxes d'ya wanna tick?

SaaS16 Jul 2018 | 1

Salesforce ‘Einstein’ now smart enough for customer service

Your software pal who makes call centres less stabby

Software12 Jul 2018 | 19

Oracle? A strategic priority for CIOs? Nope, says Goldman Sachs

Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors

SaaS10 Jul 2018 | 11

Tech firms, come to Blighty! Everything is brill! Brexit schmexit, Galileo schmalileo

Desperate times at Downing Street

On-Prem14 Jun 2018 | 139

SAP hopes to blow the doors off Salesforce with a block of C/4HANA

It's war for biz customers as ERP king eyes up CRM lands

Software05 Jun 2018 | 20

USA needs law 'a lot like GDPR' – says Salesforce supremo Marc Benioff

As his company smashes Q1 FY2019

On-Prem30 May 2018 | 21

Oracle-botherer Rimini Street cuddles up to Salesforce

Just as the $50m returned from Big Red court battles lifts profits

Software11 May 2018 | 2

Nothing more stubborn than a MuleSoft shareholder: Biz sued for taking 'low ball' Salesforce buyout bid

We were better off going it alone, huffs investor

On-Prem06 Apr 2018 | 3

Take the dashboard too literally and your brains might end up all over it

Ooo, pretty colours. But what if the data or interpretation sucks?

Devops28 Mar 2018 | 38

Salesforce saddles itself with MuleSoft for $6.5bn

Prepare for 'deep customer experiences throughout a personalized 1:1 journey’

On-Prem21 Mar 2018 | 6

Salesforce courts the great un-CRMed with 'Essentials'

And buries past flops as it pitches SaaS to slay Outlook and Excel for US$25 a month

Software14 Mar 2018 | 7

Salesforce cracked $10bn in sales for FY'18, but growth slowed

CFO's biggest hassle is keeping up with sales commissions now that it's back in black

On-Prem01 Mar 2018 |

New BFFs Salesforce and Google link arms, er, CRMs with G Suite

Silicon Valley bigwigs giggle to themselves, thumb their noses at Redmond

SaaS08 Nov 2017 | 1

will.i.am's tech tat biz is going enterprise, snags $117m from Salesforce

Deutsche Telekom's got a feeling about i.am+ voice assistant Omega

On-Prem07 Nov 2017 | 13

Oracle's Q1: Cloud, great. Hardware, meh. Mergers, unlikely

Larry previews 'self-driving' database plans

On-Prem14 Sep 2017 | 1

Salesforce CEO: We're doing great because everyone else in CRM sucks

Loafing competitors are 'horrible,' says Benioff

On-Prem23 Aug 2017 | 19

Salesforce sacks two top security engineers for their DEF CON talk

Revealing penetration-testing tool sealed staffers' fate

Security10 Aug 2017 | 63

Wanna write a Cloudflare app? No? Would $100m change your mind?

Like Salesforce, but for sharing widgets

Applications27 Jun 2017 | 5

What's 'amazing', cloudy and splattered in red ink? It's quarterly Salesforce results time

Sales bounce by a quarter for Q1... oh the vanity

SaaS19 May 2017 | 3

Microsoft plans summer CRM war opener against Salesforce

Or is this the start of Microsoft's $26bn LinkedIn writedown?

Software25 Apr 2017 | 22

LinkedIn starts piping sales data to Salesforce and Dynamics

Remember when Marc Benioff said Microsoft buying LinkedIn was dangerous?

Software23 Mar 2017 | 7