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Securing cloud services remains a challenge for enterprises. That’s why several companies have been working on security solutions that specifically address that need. In the latest example of that, Odaseva…

Odaseva raises $54M to secure Salesforce users

Salespeople live and die by commissions. It’s no surprise, then, that Salesforce paid a premium to buy a platform that simplifies managing commissions.

Filing shows Salesforce paid $419M to buy Spiff in February

Nothing gets us going like a big M&A rumor, and history has shown where there’s smoke there has often been fire — but that’s not always the case. Last week…

Informatica makes a point to say it’s not for sale — to Salesforce or anyone else

Equity discusses the latest market news, upcoming earnings, IPOs, and what impact — if any — the recent bitcoin halving had on its value.

Salesforce’s silly deal dies, Rubrik’s IPO, and venture capital in space

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Wall Street doesn’t seem too keen on a potential Salesforce-Informatica pairing

Amid rumors that Salesforce is interested in buying Informatica, investors aren’t taking kindly to the potential pairing.

Wall Street doesn’t seem too keen on a potential Salesforce-Informatica pairing

One of the primary reasons that Slack joined forces with Salesforce in 2021 in a $28 billion deal was to give the communications company the clout to compete with Microsoft.…

As Microsoft unbundles Teams, it might not have the impact on Slack you think

Microsoft has introduced new versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription services that exclude its business collaboration chat offering Teams following scrutiny from the European Union regulator and complaints…

Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism

Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen…

Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines

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Slack’s new CEO looks to bring stability after a turbulent period

Slack’s newest CEO is the third in less than a year, and she’s looking to bring stability to a division that has dealt with a lot of changes.

Slack’s new CEO looks to bring stability after a turbulent period

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What a long, strange year it’s been in enterprise tech news

Looking back at the top enterprise news stories of the year, it’s clear that generative AI dominated, but it wasn’t the only news.

What a long, strange year it’s been in enterprise tech news

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Salesforce escaped from the jaws of activists to find stability in 2023

Salesforce started the year with an unusual level of turbulence, but after escaping activist investors, it ended up having a good year.

Salesforce escaped from the jaws of activists to find stability in 2023

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Spiff, a platform that automates commission management for sales teams. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2017, Spiff serves up a…

Salesforce acquires automated commission management platform Spiff

As promised last week, Salesforce announced the replacement today for Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who stepped down last week after 10 months on the job to become CEO at dating…

Salesforce names Denise Dresser to succeed Lidiane Jones as CEO of Slack

It was a whirlwind kind of day at Salesforce and Slack as the company learned that Slack CEO Lidiane Jones would be leaving at the end of the year to…

Sources confirm that Salesforce intends to announce new Slack CEO next week

Salesforce has announced plans to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform that helps e-commerce companies build AI-powered customer service agents. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 2017, Redwood…

Salesforce to acquire Airkit.ai, a low-code platform for building AI customer service agents

Today at the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced Einstein Copilot Studio, a tool that lets customers customize the Salesforce base Einstein GPT and Einstein Copilot offerings. Einstein…

Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI

Salesforce introduced its AI layer called Einstein back in 2016 to provide predictive AI services across the Salesforce family of products. In March, just months after the release of OpenAI’s…

Salesforce embeds conversational AI across the platform with Einstein Copilot

Salesforce had a better quarter than expected, but it’s reporting and forecasting those results based on prior work, to a real degree.

Lowering costs nets Salesforce a profitable quarter, but can it keep it up?

Like most software, Slack developed over time adding a slew of new features like Huddles, Canvas and workflows. But like any piece of software that is over a decade old…

Slack gets interface makeover with a more unified approach including dedicated DMs

Salesforce introduced its AI layer, dubbed Einstein, in 2016. More recently, at the Salesforce World Tour event in NYC in May, all the company talked about was generative AI and…

Salesforce Einstein Studio lets you bring your own model, starting with Amazon SageMaker

Google’s venture capital arm Gradient Ventures has made another foray into Europe, investing as part of a $3.2 million seed round in two-year-old German startup Weflow. Weflow is the latest…

Google’s Gradient Ventures backs Weflow to bring greater hygiene to Salesforce data

A new company is emerging out of stealth today with $35 million in funding and a plan to acquire and consolidate startups within the Salesforce ecosystem. Unaric, as the company…

Unaric exits stealth with $35M to buy and consolidate Salesforce-ecosystem startups

Showing it’s playing for keeps in the generative AI race, Salesforce today announced that it’s growing its Generative AI Fund, the part of the company’s Salesforce Ventures VC off-shoot backing…

Salesforce pledges to invest $500M in generative AI startups

Salesforce is launching a new suite of products aimed at bolstering its position in the ultra-competitive AI space. Called AI Cloud, the suite, which includes tools designed to deliver “enterprise…

Salesforce launches AI Cloud to bring models to the enterprise

Salesforce and Google Cloud are teaming up to help businesses leverage data and AI via a new strategic partnership. Announced this morning, the partnership will allow companies to use their…

Google Cloud and Salesforce team up to bolster AI offerings

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After investing $28B in Slack, Salesforce bets on one of its own as new CEO

We sat down one on one with the new Slack CEO Lidiane Jones to learn more about what it’s like taking over for a charismatic founder-CEO.

After investing $28B in Slack, Salesforce bets on one of its own as new CEO

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Salesforce could be repositioning itself as a data company

As Salesforce delves deeper into AI, the data exhaust from its core products could eventually be its most valuable asset.

Salesforce could be repositioning itself as a data company

Salesforce is betting that generative AI will be at the center of its enterprise strategy, and it can fuel LLMs as a trusted data source.

Salesforce is betting that its own content can bring more trust to generative AI

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With mandate to improve acquisitions integration, Salesforce CIO went to work

When CIO Juan Perez started at Salesforce last year, he was given a mandate to more tightly integrate acquired companies, and he went to work.

With mandate to improve acquisitions integration, Salesforce CIO went to work

Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having to resort to dreaded task switching. Today, at the…

Slack updates aim to put AI at the center of the user experience