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
28 May 2021 |
SaaS
Fortunate Son: Softbank chief took 50 per cent pay cut in 2020, but that's not the worst of his worries
He remains fabulously wealthy, for now
27 May 2021 | 5
Back to the office: Workday hiring 20% more Workdayers in anticipation of postponed projects opening up
The desk and chain awaits those extra 2,500 people... the lucky blighters
27 May 2021 | 2
Autoforwarding in Exchange Online falls over due to a problematic spam rule deployment
Updated If only there were an AI to do what Microsoft's engineers don't seem to be able to
26 May 2021 | 8
What you need to know from today's Google IO: Chatty AI, collab tools, TPU v4 chips, quantum computing
Google IO Great, another tech thing that sounds like 'lambda'
18 May 2021 | 7
Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page
Updated It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS
12 May 2021 | 29
Microsoft reassures Teams freebie fans: We're not going to delete all your data, honest
The bug: IF Tier = Free THEN PRINT "Can we offer you an upgrade?"
05 May 2021 | 11
Some stayed in Croatian castles. Some hid in cars. We speak to techies who experienced lockdown in very different ways
Covid Logfile II Tales from less-conventional bunkers at the height of the pandemic
05 May 2021 | 30
Philippines national ID registration portal opens, glitches out in first hour
2FA hasn’t kept pace with registration and real-world biometric capture
04 May 2021 | 3
Feel like you've been sucked through your vendors' pipes? ServiceNow's marketing has you in mind
Violet, you're turning ... to our digital workflows!
30 Apr 2021 |
Not as many $1m customers as last quarter? Sorry, we're out: ServiceNow shares fall despite soaring revenues
Not a good look for company 'at the epicentre of the workflow revolution'
29 Apr 2021 | 4
Court snubs Microsoft, US govt's request to throw out Amazon's complaint against JEDI cloud contract decision
Updated Yes, AWS is still fighting for this $10bn deal
28 Apr 2021 | 22
State of Maine lays off 15 independent consultants on $13k a month amid efforts to implement troubled Workday system
Vendor claims government failed to provide 'clear direction' for the project
27 Apr 2021 | 27
Where meetings go to die: Microsoft Teams outage lets customers skip that collaboration call they've been dreading
Updated Another month, another Teams TITSUP*
27 Apr 2021 | 26
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
23 Apr 2021 | 3
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Something for the Weekend, Sir? Get with the disruptive app design, granddad: meaningless errors are cool
23 Apr 2021 | 132
Adobe shareholders sign off on exec raises, with CEO Shantanu Narayen winning a plush $7m pay rise
Once again, the cloud makes it rain
22 Apr 2021 | 7
Microsoft renews cloud contracts with UK.gov amid ongoing legal spat with on-prem licence reseller
Lawyers, say hello to the Digital Transformation Agreement 2021
21 Apr 2021 | 7
Element rolls out bridge for Microsoft Teams to cross into Matrix's encrypted comms land
Exclusive For a small fee, of course – and no video or voice yet
14 Apr 2021 | 2
State of Maine says Workday has shown 'no accountability' for farcical $56.4m HR upgrade
It takes two to tango, says SaaS vendor
14 Apr 2021 | 22
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
13 Apr 2021 | 12
State of Iowa approves $17m in budget for Workday project after bid to use coronavirus relief funds was denied
Questions raised about procurement process but, gosh, they badly need a replacement HR system
09 Apr 2021 | 5
Vietnam reveals state-run Alibaba-and-Amazon alternative, aims it at the EU
Government hopes to cash in on free trade agreement with B2B e-commerce
09 Apr 2021 | 16
Website maker Wix embarks on weird WordPress-trashing campaign, sends 'influencer' users headphones from 'WP'
'Creepy' videos liken CMS giant to 'absent, drunken father' – but its market share is only rising
08 Apr 2021 | 30
UK government rings £1.5bn dinner bell for software design and implementation, 54 vendors come running
Though framework agreement 'cannot guarantee any business'
08 Apr 2021 | 9
AWS straps Python support to its automated CodeGuru tool, slashes prices – just don't go over 100,000 lines
Or the cost triples, which is one way to encourage concise programming
07 Apr 2021 | 9
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
06 Apr 2021 | 36
If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage
Updated It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS
01 Apr 2021 | 37
State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation
Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement'
31 Mar 2021 | 40
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
26 Mar 2021 | 19
Microsoft 365 tries again at filtering swearing, bad behavior: Classifiers for seven languages offered
Meanwhile, Outlook on Windows gets magical email completion powers
26 Mar 2021 | 64
Can you imagine Slack letting people DM strangers in another org? Think of the abuse. Oh wait, it did do that
Updated Chat app that was supposed to save us from unsolicited email warms to unsolicited messaging. Now it's kinda walked that back
24 Mar 2021 | 19
Workday bets big on staff coming back to the office by splurging $172.5m on HQ and five more Bay Area buildings
This from the CEO who says 'five days is too much family time'
24 Mar 2021 | 18
Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services
Updated Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond
23 Mar 2021 | 4
SQL now a dirty word for Oracle, at least in cloudy data warehouses
Python still welcome, though
18 Mar 2021 | 33
Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API
Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you
17 Mar 2021 | 9
