SalesForce

If Salesforce is jumping on the AI bandwagon, IBM's Watson is giving it the final shove onboard

Cloudy giant's Einstein sucks on tech behemoth's data hose

AI + ML07 Mar 2017 | 1

Salesforce: Brex-pensive mistake, guys. Your little referendum dented our brilliant results

CEO shoots for $10bn revs, though 2017 will start slowly

On-Prem01 Mar 2017 | 3

Sayonara North America: Insurance guy got your back when Office 365 doesn't?

Read the small print

SaaS21 Dec 2016 | 40

Microsoft promises 'equal access' to LinkedIn to get EC green light for acquisition

Tales from the antitrust crypt

Legal22 Nov 2016 | 16

Salesforce claims it's on track to become a $10bn company next fiscal year

Firm announces third-quarter revenue growth of 25 per cent

On-Prem18 Nov 2016 | 3

Why Oracle's Larry Ellison shelled out $9bn for NetSuite

Analysis Big Red paid nearly another PeopleSoft for cloud provider

On-Prem07 Nov 2016 | 3

Salesforce rules out Twitter bid

That leaves the possible number of interested buyers at … Zero.

On-Prem17 Oct 2016 | 14

If someone can translate Salesforce's $700m cool Krux plan into English, we'd be really grateful

Data slurper slurped is the best we can tell

Software03 Oct 2016 | 9

Salesforce asks Europe to stop Microsoft buying LinkedIn after itself trying to buy LinkedIn

And asked on the day EC competition tsar gave speech on 'Big Data and Competition'

Channel30 Sep 2016 | 8

Mark Zuckerberg and the $3bn cash fling: He's not your father's tech kingpin

History, philanthropy and the Victorian computing age

Legal27 Sep 2016 | 33

Salesforce Einstein: Enterprise AI breakthrough, or CRM Clippy?

Cloud house sets lofty goals for deep learning layer

SaaS18 Sep 2016 | 3

HP Inc dumps Salesforce, adopts Microsoft's cloudy CRM

There is no honour among clouds

SaaS13 Sep 2016 | 6

Deal delays and exchange rate woes batter Salesforce

Going soft in the USA

Channel01 Sep 2016 |

Summer of Salesforce: CRM cloud swallows tiny pattern-recog firm

BeyondCore taken in 'season of M&A'

Channel16 Aug 2016 | 1

Salesforce's US$582m giggle: It buys cloud collaboration biz Quip

Surely Marc Benioff can recite the long list of folk who tried to kill Office, but died trying?

Channel02 Aug 2016 | 1

Salesforce's data-losing NA14 instance is still a bit naughty

It's up and down like the Assyrian Empire! Or at least rather wobbly

SaaS28 Jul 2016 | 1

EMC insiders say Salesforce has ordered $75m of its kit

Forget AWS (sort of): We've still got skin in the game

Channel26 Jul 2016 | 9

Salesforce bins all Android phones bar Nexii and Galaxies

Also cancels support for Nexus Tabs, old iOS devices in future apps

Software14 Jul 2016 | 21

Microsoft and Salesforce strike up Lightning-Outlook love

More, more, more - how do you like it?

Software28 Jun 2016 | 1

Why everyone* hates Salesforce's Marc Benioff

Opinion *Trump followers demand an enemy. Silicon Valley is that enemy

Channel08 Jun 2016 | 73

Salesforce's data centre team 'fought' AWS cloud outsourcing

Analysis The growing cloud platform war takes shape

Channel03 Jun 2016 | 21

Salesforce slurps up Demandware for $2.8bn

Just when you thought it was about to turn a profit...

Channel01 Jun 2016 | 2

Two weeks ago Salesforce had an outage. Now it's outsourced to AWS

International expansion to rely on Jeff B's cut price bit barns

Software26 May 2016 | 7

Salesforce slaps UK Enterprise customers with 40% price hike

Meanwhile Americans enjoy a modest 20% price rise. Eh?

Channel23 May 2016 | 21

Salesforce claims 'record' quarter record at Oracle and SAP's expense

More Salesforce on more AWS promise

Channel19 May 2016 | 7

Salesforce cutting ties to Larry Ellison's database?

CRM-cloud floating free with Project Sayonara

Databases16 May 2016 | 1

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells Reg data loss 'minimal'

Not because Salesforce is an ops genius but because sales people can sleep at night

Channel15 May 2016 | 12

Salesforce parks its planned IoT cloud on... shocker! AWS

CRM floater breaks with precedent, jumps aboard bandwagon

Edge + IoT11 May 2016 | 5

Marc Benioff apologizes as Salesforce NA14 instance goes TITSUP

Downtime approaches 12 hours and irate customers stop selling online and start satirising online

SaaS11 May 2016 | 29

NetSuite CEO: 'It will be $99 forever for every user'

Commits to permanent per-user price freeze

Channel09 May 2016 | 3

Sage cheerfully pours £10m over Salesforce partner Fairsail

Minority stake buys them a board seat

On-Prem05 May 2016 |

Gwyneth Paltrow and Richard Branson will lead Sage's 'sexy accounting' shtick

Ashton Kutcher breaks up with pizza slice for spreadsheets

Channel26 Apr 2016 | 11

Salesforce takes AIM, hits bullseye in enterprise integration

While IBM sings the blues in Gartner's report

Channel14 Apr 2016 | 1

Shareholder rage freezes Salesforce boss Marc Benioff's package

Don't sweat, Marc: $33m/yr is still enough for a Pot Noodle and a cuppa

Channel12 Apr 2016 | 15

Salesforce acquires AI startup MetaMind

Machine fancier founder comes in as Chief Scientist

AI + ML05 Apr 2016 | 2

IBM snaps up small Bluewolf for reported $200m

CRM-as-service-acquisition strategy plays out

Channel01 Apr 2016 | 3

Look who just joined Salesforce... it's former European commish Neelie Kroes

It's an honour, says Steelie

On-Prem22 Mar 2016 | 10

IBM buys CRM SaaS firm – no, not Salesforce

Microsoft Dynamics UK Gov gateway

Channel18 Mar 2016 |

Life's three certainties: Death, taxes and Salesforce losing money

Perhaps we could add the CEO's charity work to that too

Channel25 Feb 2016 | 9

SAP buys 'all the pretty data' firm Roambi

Massive data processing deserves a spot of warpaint

Channel19 Feb 2016 | 2

Former Oracle man Block fills Salesforce's COO slot

Ascending steadily into the fluffy white stuff

Channel03 Feb 2016 |

Salesforce forks out $360m, slips SteelBrick in its Christmas stocking

Might need to wait until Easter to open it though

Channel24 Dec 2015 | 2

Box announces Salesforce integration, SDK for developers

Cloudy storage meets cloudy CRM

Software17 Dec 2015 | 1

Microsoft's CRM chief defects to Salesforce

On-prem heavyweight floats to cloudy Analytics

Channel19 Nov 2015 | 4

Major Salesforce discounts. If you renew early ... and big

But beware the small print, source says

Channel05 Nov 2015 | 2

Salesforce slaps down $100m fund for cloudy European upstarts

Cloudy folk open wallet, shout 'reach in' to cloudy SMEs

Channel13 Oct 2015 | 1

Silicon Valley fights European Court of Justice ruling with small print

I think you’ll find we can still take your data, actually

Channel07 Oct 2015 | 46

Whoops, there goes my cloud: What to do when AWS foresakes you

Comment Multiple providers? Hybrid approach? Or, just take the hit?

Storage28 Sep 2015 | 18

Microsoft puts arm round Salesforce, pair skip gaily into the cloud

Lightening CRM comes to Skype, OneNote, Office Graph and Delve

Channel17 Sep 2015 | 10

SAP pitches Cloud Foundry real-time customer service

It's a lot of Hybris and open-source PaaS middleware for HANA fans

Software15 Sep 2015 |

Here they come: Salesforce unleashes Wave analytics tools

New apps on their way in realtime with an ERP twist

Channel14 Sep 2015 | 1

Like paying huge amounts for Salesforce? Don't read this

Endless possibilities – and endless traps

On-Prem14 Sep 2015 | 8

Salesforce's developer push on receiving end of big cloud reboot

App Cloud rolls

Channel10 Sep 2015 |

Salesforce back in the red, reviews future black ink orders

But hey, at least overall profit ratio is up to 0.1 per cent of sales

Channel21 Aug 2015 | 6

Salesforce plugs silly website XSS hole, hopes nobody spotted it

Web development 101: Thou shalt stop thy users from inputting JavaScript

Security14 Aug 2015 | 4

Salesforce unleashes red-tape-as-a-service for regulation-heavy users

Compliance-conscious folk get SmsSaaS: Slightly-more-secure-software-as-a-service

Security15 Jul 2015 | 2