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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