Changes afoot at Salesforce after activist investor Elliott takes a decisive slice It is 'never a good sign when Elliott shows up' says analyst of fund manager whose reputation precedes it SaaS23 Jan 2023 | 12
Security tech chief quits Salesforce as list of top-table departures grows CRM slinger's annus horribilis continues as 'father of SSL' departs for VC fund SaaS12 Jan 2023 | 2
Salesforce: There's no more Slack left to cut Opinion SaaS CRM slinger blamed the pandemic for 10% workforce cull, but scattergun M&A strategy hasn't helped SaaS10 Jan 2023 | 23
Salesforce to chop 10% of workforce in $1.4 billion restructuring blueprint CRM specialist to 'reduce operating costs, improve operating margins' as pandemic catches up with tech industry SaaS04 Jan 2023 | 6
Salesforce's new hires are less productive, says CEO Benioff Founder and bossman asks if WFH freedoms to blame SaaS19 Dec 2022 | 34
Salesforce ends CEO job share – again. Marc Benioff back as sole boss Bret Taylor returns to entrepreneurial roots after losing his gig as chair of Twitter SaaS01 Dec 2022 |
Salesforce trims workforce as growth slows post-lockdowns The COVID-era hiring spree which saw thousands onboarded comes to an abrupt end SaaS09 Nov 2022 | 2
ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending SaaS27 Oct 2022 |
Salesforce set to hire thousands in India after hitting brakes on US recruitment Headcount in subcontinent quadruples in 3 years thanks to CFO's 'measured approach' to recruitment SaaS27 Sep 2022 | 9
Salesforce lets Genie out of the bottle Integration tooling might work for those with multiple installs, but check the budget first – analyst SaaS21 Sep 2022 | 1
Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier Move over, GitLab, this purge begins in October Devops25 Aug 2022 | 15
Deals are being 'inspected by higher levels of management,' says Salesforce Customers 'more measured' and this will continue, says CRM giant, but Snowflake lifts forecasts SaaS25 Aug 2022 | 4
Slack leaked hashed passwords from its servers for years Users who created shared invitation links for their workspace had login details slip out among encrypted traffic Security08 Aug 2022 | 11
Salesforce to let two-thirds of space in SF high-rise Office-space-as-a-service suits this cloud giant to a T On-Prem14 Jul 2022 | 4
Alibaba spins out a biz to productize home-grown data tools Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies Software30 Jun 2022 | 1
Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?' SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 72
Cisco dials back on hiring, cool winds blow through economy 'I think it is a time for everyone to be prudent' says networking giant's CFO Networks16 Jun 2022 | 3
Microsoft CRM tool to pull sales data from email, Teams calls, Office 365 Out-of-the-box integration with Salesforce and Dynamics: SAP, Oracle CRM customers must wait Applications16 Jun 2022 | 5
Salesforce touts Google Ads, ecommerce, social media integration for Customer 360 Meanwhile, NFT Cloud pilot will allow companies to mint, manage, and sell the controversial web tokens SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 1
Salesforce faces diversity audit from activist investors CRM slinger set to be challenged on lack of progress at investor meeting SaaS09 Jun 2022 | 3
Renegotiating a Salesforce software agreement? It could take up to two years Salesforce complexity can be 'difficult and expensive to govern', especially for multicloud, warns Gartner SaaS31 May 2022 | 8
Salesforce staff back an end to its relationship with NRA Texas school shooting should prompt a rethink in commercial ties with powerful gun-lobby group, workers urge management SaaS30 May 2022 | 134
Communication around Heroku security incident dubbed 'train wreck' Users claim lack of transparency following compromise of Github tokens Security04 May 2022 | 5
US judge dismisses Republican efforts to block release of Salesforce emails Probe into Capitol attack must wait for appeal before data can be accessed SaaS03 May 2022 | 62
Activist investors attempt to push through racial diversity probe at Salesforce The move follows lack of progress in equality and two resignations, campaign group says Legal17 Mar 2022 | 10
Salesforce sued in attempt to block release of Capitol riot info CRM giant pleased to be named yet again on World's Most Ethical Companies list SaaS16 Mar 2022 | 51
Veeam to productise in-house Salesforce backup tools - private beta already under way Major update has passed quality control and will catch up to platform and app updates Off-Prem20 Dec 2021 |
Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning Software01 Dec 2021 |
Workplace surveillance booming during pandemic, destroying trust in employers At the same time, Brit MPs call for tighter regulations on AI snooping Networks12 Nov 2021 | 32
Freshworks trains sights on startup market as it puzzles over enterprise conundrum Indian challenger looks to exploit common platform but could struggle to win bigger customers Software11 Nov 2021 | 1
Google Cloud UK boss boomerangs back to Salesforce to run freshly acquired Slack's EMEA ops Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in Applications05 Oct 2021 | 1
Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous Comment Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie SaaS22 Sep 2021 | 7
Salesforce gets into the vid-streaming with original content caper, promises digital inspriation Netflix and friends are probably safe as only shows revealed so far are fronted by staff or streamed from its own conference Bootnotes12 Aug 2021 | 3
Salesforce follows application rivals into the RPA market with Servicetrace purchase Replacing swivel-chair integration is not a market that independent vendors will get to themselves Software03 Aug 2021 | 1
Cut us some Slack: $27bn+ later, collab tool officially belongs to Salesforce Cloud apps giant sets off to invent the future of work and beat Microsoft Teams Off-Prem22 Jul 2021 | 20
Salesforce's Patterson blazes a trail for humble-braggers everywhere UK & I shindig has everything: Olympians, Bake-Off stars, and the ever-rising former BT boss SaaS08 Jul 2021 | 12
In-person Dreamforce returns: Real people, real lanyards, real sandwich platters... and no James Corden Not the first plane trip you wanted to do post-lockdown, but there you are SaaS28 May 2021 |
That Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by one engineer trying a quick fix 'We feel bad about what happened' Networks19 May 2021 | 68
Salesforce beats banks to top UK exec salary survey while Microsoft drops out of league Come for the 'ohana', stay for the massive piles of cash SaaS23 Apr 2021 | 3
Brit Salesforce exec Gavin Patterson becomes transfer target for controversial European Super League Ex-BT boss is familiar with the football lifestyle – being paid millions for doing very little Bootnotes19 Apr 2021 | 19
Salesforce's get-back-to-work strategy starts with 'Volunteer Vaccinated Cohorts' on designated floors Sounds kind of like a vaccination passport for California offices SaaS13 Apr 2021 | 12
Think tank report names and shames 'stakeholder capitalist' Salesforce for paying no corporate income tax in the US 'Improving the state of the world'... by not paying the government SaaS06 Apr 2021 | 36
Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media' Cloud giant manages to dismiss only part of lawsuit brought against it SaaS26 Mar 2021 | 19
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