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San Francisco, United States - August 24, 2018: Outside Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, located at 415 Mission St. Salesforce is an American cloud computing company with headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Salesforce Sees Surge In $1M+ Deals Powering Record Q1, FY22 Results

By Louis Columbus on June 1, 2021

Salesforce Q1, FY22 revenue was $5.96B, the best quarter in the company’s history.  $1M+ deals hit an all-time high and were up 120% year-over-year.  New $1M+ sales are averaging four or more Clouds, with senior management calling out Service Cloud during the earnings call as gaining strong traction in enterprises. Eight of the top 10 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CRM, Enterprise Cloud Computing, Louis Columbus’ blog, MuleSoft, Multi-cloud, Multi-cloud integration, SaaS, salesforce, Tableau

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LinkedIn Best Companies To Work For In 2021 Dominated By Tech

By Louis Columbus on April 28, 2021

Four of LinkedIn’s top ten companies to grow your career in 2021 are tech leaders. Amazon is the highest rated company, followed by Alphabet (2nd), IBM (6th), and Apple (8th). 15 of the 50 top companies in the U.S. are in the tech industry, including Oracle, Salesforce, and SAP. These and many other insights are […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alphabet, Amazon, apple, AT&T, bank of america, deloitte, EY, ibm, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2021: The 50 best workplaces to grow your career in the U.S., oracle, salesforce, sap, walmart

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FinancialForce’s Spring 2021 Release Shows Why Being Customer-Centric Pays

By Louis Columbus on April 24, 2021

Bottom Line: Customer revenue lifecycles are the lifeblood of any services business, making FinancialForce’s Spring 2021 release timely given the services-first revenue renaissance happening today. The essence of an excellent services business is that it can consistently create expectations clients trust and the business regularly exceeds. Orchestrating the best people for a given project at […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Enterprise resource planning, Financialforce, Louis Columbus' blog, professional services automation, salesforce, Salesforce Einstein, Services ERP

Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.

Salesforce and Slack. Mind the gap.

By Thomas Otter on December 3, 2020

Thank you ! Creative commons: Jeremy Segrott https://www.flickr.com/photos/126337928@N05/ I’m not one to try and get a razor sharp analysis out before I have had my tea and rashers. There is a lot to ponder on this one, and it is rather long to tell. Some context and a bit of a diversion The big enterprisey […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged acquisition, marketing, Product Management, salesforce, Slack

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COVID-19’s Impact On Tech Spending This Year

By Louis Columbus on March 25, 2020

The human tragedy the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted on the world is incalculable and continues to grow. Every human life is priceless and deserves the care needed to sustain it. COVID-19 is also impacting entire industries, causing them to randomly gyrate in unpredictable ways, directly impacting IT and tech spending. COVID-19’s Impact On Industries Computer […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Atlassian, avasant, Box, Computer Economics, Coronavirus, Coronavirus Impact Index by Industry, COVID, COVID-19, CRM, Dave Wagner, enterprise software, erp, Frank Scavo, GoToMyPC, Louis Columbus' blog, Microsoft Office365, salesforce, Slack, Technology / Software, Tom Dunlap, Zoho Remotely, zoom | 1 Response

Salesforce Now Has Over 19% Of The CRM Market

Salesforce Now Has Over 19% Of The CRM Market

By Louis Columbus on July 8, 2019

Salesforce dominated the worldwide CRM market with a 19.5% market share in 2018, over double its nearest rival, SAP, at 8.3% share. Worldwide spending on customer experience and relationship management (CRM) software grew 15.6% to reach $48.2B in 2018. 72.9% of CRM spending was on software as a service (SaaS) in 2018, which is expected […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged adobe marketing, CRM, customer relationship management, HubSpot, Louis Columbus' blog, Oracle CRM, salesforce, SAP CRM

10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales

10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales

By Louis Columbus on January 3, 2019

Sales teams adopting AI are seeing an increase in leads and appointments of more than 50%, cost reductions of 40%–60%, and call time reductions of 60%–70% according to the Harvard Business Review article Why Salespeople Need to Develop Machine Intelligence. 62% of highest performing salespeople predict guided selling adoption will accelerate based on its ability rank potential opportunities […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, Artificial intelligence, Eightfold, HubSpot, Louis Columbus' blog, machine learning, MARKETING ANALYTICS, Marketing Automation, sales, salesforce, Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce State of Sales Survey, selling

The Best Big Data Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2018

The Best Big Data Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2018

By Louis Columbus on May 26, 2018

Employees would most recommend Dataiku, StreamSets, 1010 Data, Reltio, Looker, SAP, Google, Salesforce, Tamr, DataRobot, Domo, Microsoft, Qubole, Attivio and Informatica to friends interested in working for business analytics, data science and machine learning, big data systems and platforms, or data management and integration company in 2018. These 15 companies are the highest rated in their fields of expertise as defined by Computer Reseller News as of May 11, 2018. Nine out of 10 […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged 1010 Data, analytics, Attivio, Big Data, byline=Louis Columbus, Dataiku, DataRobot, Domo, enterprise software, google, Informatica, Looker, Louis Columbus, microsoft, Qubole, Reltio, salesforce, sap, StreamSets, Tamr

Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions

By Tom Raftery on January 14, 2016

We have highlighted often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened cloud companies doing the right thing. Salesforce announced today its second renewable energy purchase agreement. The first announcement, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, power purchase agreements, ppas, Renewable energy, salesforce, vppas, wind energy

The SaaS Billionaires and Naysayers

The SaaS Billionaires and Naysayers

By Anshu Sharma on February 27, 2015

If you are on your journey as an entrepreneur to truly build something new and revolutionary, you will hear a lot of naysayers along the way. Salesforce and Workday both announced their financial results — once again showing that they continue to grow as part of the larger movement to SaaS. Salesforce is now generating almost half […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cloud, SaaS, salesforce, Uber, workday | 1 Response

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