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Alphabet Walks Away From HubSpot DealAlphabet Walks Away From HubSpot Deal

Alphabet Walks Away From HubSpot Deal

Not interested. Alphabet reportedly opts not to make an offer for HubSpot to bolster CRM and cloud position

9 months ago
Alphabet Mulls Offer For Marketing Software Firm HubSpotAlphabet Mulls Offer For Marketing Software Firm HubSpot

Alphabet Mulls Offer For Marketing Software Firm HubSpot

Amidst antitrust scrutiny, Alphabet reportedly plans on making an offer for HubSpot to bolster CRM and cloud position

12 months ago
Global IT Spend To Rise Amid Automation Focus, Says GartnerGlobal IT Spend To Rise Amid Automation Focus, Says Gartner

Global IT Spend To Rise Amid Automation Focus, Says Gartner

Economic uncertainty and ongoing struggle with skills shortage, will not impact IT spending for businesses, Gartner finds

2 years ago
Salesforce Invests $4 Billion In UK Amid AI PushSalesforce Invests $4 Billion In UK Amid AI Push

Salesforce Invests $4 Billion In UK Amid AI Push

CRM giant Salesforce confirms it will invest $4bn in its UK business over the next five years, in the face…

2 years ago
Freshworks Valued At $12.2 Billion After Nasdaq IPOFreshworks Valued At $12.2 Billion After Nasdaq IPO

Freshworks Valued At $12.2 Billion After Nasdaq IPO

Business software provider Freshworks, which seeks to challenge Salesforce in the CRM space, enjoys successful Nasdaq debut

4 years ago
Salesforce Launches Platforms For Manufacturing, Consumer GoodsSalesforce Launches Platforms For Manufacturing, Consumer Goods

Salesforce Launches Platforms For Manufacturing, Consumer Goods

Offerings link to companies' existing sales and operations systems, bringing data together and giving both sides a '360-degree view' of…

6 years ago
Salesforce Acquires ClickSoftware For $1.3bnSalesforce Acquires ClickSoftware For $1.3bn

Salesforce Acquires ClickSoftware For $1.3bn

US cloud services provider snaps up Israeli maker of workforce management and service solutions

6 years ago
Adobe, Microsoft, SAP Demonstrate First Open Data SystemAdobe, Microsoft, SAP Demonstrate First Open Data System

Adobe, Microsoft, SAP Demonstrate First Open Data System

The Open Data Initiative, announced last autumn to create a common data model for customer data, could pose a competitive…

6 years ago
Zendesk Targets Sales, Launches ‘Sunshine’ Application PlatformZendesk Targets Sales, Launches ‘Sunshine’ Application Platform

Zendesk Targets Sales, Launches ‘Sunshine’ Application Platform

Relate 2018: Zendesk Sell integrates salesforce automation into Zendesk's customer service tools, while Sunshine targets developers and Explore adds data…

6 years ago
Microsoft, SAP, Adobe To Back Common Data ModelMicrosoft, SAP, Adobe To Back Common Data Model

Microsoft, SAP, Adobe To Back Common Data Model

Ignite 2018: The proposed standardised model could make it easier to carry out large-scale analytics on customer data drawn from…

7 years ago
Salesforce Targets SMB Market With Essentials OfferingSalesforce Targets SMB Market With Essentials Offering

Salesforce Targets SMB Market With Essentials Offering

Entry-level offering...simplified sales and customer service software that can scale as small businesses grow

7 years ago
AS Roma Seeks Technological Revolution In Bid To Become Football SuperpowerAS Roma Seeks Technological Revolution In Bid To Become Football Superpower

AS Roma Seeks Technological Revolution In Bid To Become Football Superpower

Roma Chairman Jim Pallotta has started a tech revolution at the club to make it a European superpower and to…

7 years ago
Benioff Says Web Giants Must Consider Tech’s Affects For Good Or IllBenioff Says Web Giants Must Consider Tech’s Affects For Good Or Ill

Benioff Says Web Giants Must Consider Tech’s Affects For Good Or Ill

ANALYSIS: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says tech giants, particularly Facebook & Twitter need to take full responsibility for ensuring they…

7 years ago
Dreamforce 2017: Salesforce Adds Predictions & Chatbots To Einstein AIDreamforce 2017: Salesforce Adds Predictions & Chatbots To Einstein AI

Dreamforce 2017: Salesforce Adds Predictions & Chatbots To Einstein AI

The Einstein artificial intelligence platform gets predictive models and automated chatbots, which can be set up in a few clicks

7 years ago
Salesforce Rolls Out Einstein AI For Social MarketersSalesforce Rolls Out Einstein AI For Social Marketers

Salesforce Rolls Out Einstein AI For Social Marketers

Salesforce's Einstein artificial intelligence can now be used to help marketers identify products and brands that appear in images posted…

8 years ago

Salesforce Targets Einstein AI Developers With Updates

Feel the love...CRM giant steps up effort to woo developers for its Einstein AI platform

8 years ago

Salesforce, IBM To Combine Einstein And Watson AI Tools

The deal means Salesforce users will become the latest to have IBM's Watson AI technology available in their workplace

8 years ago

Oracle Says It Won’t Change NetSuite Product Prices, Structure

After Oracle completed its acquisition ofNetSuite, executives from both companies detailed what’s in store for customers

8 years ago

Benioff Says Salesforce Betting Big On The Success Of Einstein AI

Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff calls the company's artificial intelligence push a game changer, but is the hype at Dreamforce conference…

8 years ago

Salesforce And Slack Integrate Messaging And Cloud CRM

Salesforce has teamed up with Slack with the aim of integrating features from each other’s services over the coming months.

8 years ago

Oracle Buys NetSuite For £7bn

In one of Oracle's largest ever acquisitions, it will position ERP seller NetSuite in a complimentary role

9 years ago

Salesforce Closes E-commerce Gap With £1.9bn Demandware Deal

E-commerce software maker Demandware snapped up by Salesforce in its biggest ever acquisition

9 years ago

Salesforce Strikes Cloud Services Deal With AWS

Salesforce moved software onto AWS cloud in the hope of expanding its international services with minimal infrastructure spend

9 years ago

Salesforce Appoints Ex-European Commissioner Neelie Kroes To Board Of Directors

Neelie Kroes is third woman to join board of directors at Salesforce, hopes to provide experience across both public and…

9 years ago

IBM Breaks Into UK Public Sector With Optevia Acquistion

Microsoft Dynamics CRM specialist Optevia scooped up by IBM for an undisclosed sum

9 years ago

Jive Updates Intranet And Customer Collaboration Platforms

Jive World 2016: Jive adds new content creation options for internal and external collaboration software, teases Jive 9

9 years ago

IT Life: NetSuite Asks ‘Why Not Cloud?’

Mark Woodhams, EMEA MD for NetSuite, talks us through cloud, Bill Gates, and Apple fandom

9 years ago

Data Centre Firm Interxion Leaks Customer Data

The security breach enabled unauthorised access to Interxion's customer and prospect contact details

9 years ago

Capgemini Acquires Oinio To Boost European Salesforce Power

Munich's Oinio to help Capgemini offer Salesforce-based agile innovation to enterprise customers at scale

9 years ago

What Should Sales Managers Ask Their IT departments For This Christmas?

Christmas is a time for giving, so perhaps IT teams will give their sales managers a bit of extra help…

9 years ago