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Hacked LinkedIn post puts further pressure on Salesforce over attitudes to race in the workplace

SaaS pusher says it has locked up social media account after 'unauthorised access'

Off-Prem05 Mar 2021 | 7

Rude awakening for SaaS giants Salesforce, Workday as both find 20% growth isn't good enough for market

Yeah, you did great, but you should have done better

SaaS26 Feb 2021 | 7

Uncle Sam's Department of Justice isn't Slacking over $28bn Salesforce merger

Hold up, just a few more questions...

SaaS17 Feb 2021 | 4

Salesforce: Forget the ping-pong and snacks, the 9-to-5 working day is just so 2019, it's over and done with

54k staffers can WFH permanently, come in 1-3 days a week for meetings - or if they must - use vendor's 'immersive workspaces'

SaaS10 Feb 2021 | 41

Salesforce likes to play the diversity nice guy in public – Black ex-employee claims the reality is quite different

Resignation letter posted to LinkedIn accuses cloudy CRM biz of 'countless micro-aggressions and inequity'

SaaS09 Feb 2021 | 47

$13m funding for Scratchpad – a data input startup whose sole strength is pointing out Salesforce's weaknesses

Huh, where's our $13m then?

Software04 Feb 2021 | 1

Salesforce relieves Republican National Committee of its tools citing 'risk of politically incited violence' across the US

See that horse disappearing over the horizon? Time to close the stable door

SaaS12 Jan 2021 | 125

Slack serves up out-of-order messages, shaky comms as world goes back to work

Updated Where are the documents? I'm waiting! Fancy a coffee? Happy new year!

Software04 Jan 2021 | 17

Salesforce's Dreamforce shindig hits new levels of nauseating online as... Oh god. Is that James Corden?

An event we will never forget, says dreamweaver-in-chief Marc Benioff

SaaS03 Dec 2020 | 22

Salesforce to buy Slack for $28bn in cash, shares – and vows to make it the new face of Customer 360

If shareholders like the somewhat small-ish premium offered

Software01 Dec 2020 | 29

Salesforce reportedly poised to scoop Slack for billions

Which rather kicks a hole in the planned debut of Slack-like Salesforce Anywhere

Software26 Nov 2020 | 18

Revenues are up, the boss is about to give his keynote, and results are due. Time to sell shares, says Salesforce CFO

$2.5m worth – 1,000 pairs of Nike Air Mag sneakers or a second-hand Pagani? Decisions, decisions

SaaS25 Nov 2020 | 11

Salesforce pinches Accenture tech veteran to head up UK & Ireland operations

Cloudy CRM monster's veep merry-go-round keeps spinning

SaaS05 Nov 2020 |

Tableau continues to pursue monogamish marriage a year after Salesforce nuptials

Analysis Sure, Salesforce is our main squeeze but we're open to suggestions

SaaS08 Oct 2020 | 3

Salesforce, Deloitte try to flog contact-tracing wares to a UK public sector that's already got a £12bn test-and-trace system

... which Deloitte helped build

Software01 Oct 2020 | 16

Remember those Salesforce layoffs after that bumper Q2? Yeah, forget that, SaaS player set to hire 12,000 staff

What goes up must come down. Or is it the other way round?

SaaS21 Sep 2020 | 6

Never mind record revenue and profit, the churn must go on: Salesforce trims workforce day after bumper results

Thanks for raising the share price 25% *checks HR playbook* now get lost

SaaS26 Aug 2020 | 2

If you're having a hard time of it, we advise you to look away now: Salesforce is palpably chuffed about its Q2 figures

'Totally bummed out' that Dreamforce isn't happening, though

SaaS26 Aug 2020 |

Oracle and Salesforce targeted in €10bn GDPR lawsuit backed by profit-making litigation fund

Case to be filed in the Netherlands and London

Security14 Aug 2020 | 16

Dreams feel real while we're in them, don't they Salesforce? 'Critical' virtual event Dreamforce faces the axe

'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion

SaaS11 Aug 2020 | 1

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