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
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