Salesforce Closes Acquisition of MapAnything
Today, Salesforce, the world’s #1 CRM, signed a definitive agreement to acquire MapAnything, a pioneer in location-based intelligence software built natively on the Salesforce Platform. MapAnything integrates map-based visualization, asset tracking and route optimization to drive efficiency for field sales and service teams and deliver a better customer experience. Customer experience is rapidly overtaking price […]
Salesforce Introduces the First Low-Code Blockchain Platform for CRM
Salesforce Blockchain extends CRM—delivering a fast and easy way to build trusted partner networks that share verified, distributed data Powered by Salesforce Lightning and open source blockchain technology from Hyperledger, organizations can now deploy and manage blockchain networks, workflows, contracts and apps with clicks, not code Trailblazers including Arizona State University, IQVIA and S&P Global […]
Utilities Test Drive Analytics from Oracle to Manage Influx of Electric Vehicles
The use of electric vehicles (EVs) is growing at a record rate, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicting that the number of electric cars on the road will rise from 3.1 million in 2017 to 125 million in 2030. Enabling utilities to intelligently manage this new energy demand on the power grid, Oracle Utilities […]
Salesforce AppExchange Unveils New Ecosystem Insights—Empowering Customers and Partners to Drive Business Transformation
Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), the global leader in CRM, today announced the launch of new ecosystem insights on Salesforce AppExchange—the world’s #1 enterprise cloud marketplace. Rapidly-changing customer expectations in the Fourth Industrial Revolution are accelerating demand for technology expertise and new innovation within Salesforce’s growing ecosystem. These new AppExchange insights bridge this supply and demand—enabling customers to […]
Trailblazer: Salesforce Founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff’s Inspiring New Book Shows How Business is the Greatest Platform for Change
What’s the secret to continuous growth and innovation in a world that is becoming vastly more complicated? According to Salesforce founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff, the answer is building a culture in which your values permeate everything you do. In a new book titled Trailblazer, coming October 15, Benioff points to business as the greatest […]
Unicorns and Airlines Find Agility, Modernization, Growth, and Automation on the Oracle Cloud
Some of the world’s most important companies are turning to agile Oracle Cloud suites to run their people, their supply chains, and their financials. These include a unicorn in the e-commerce platform industry, an award-winning airline, a family-run retail conglomerate, and a logistics and transportation company. Founded in 2010 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Bukalapak […]
How Autonomous Freed the World’s Most Important Resource – People
An increasing number of businesses are turning to Oracle Autonomous Database – the industry’s first self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing database—to gain deeper and more meaningful data insight, faster than ever before. The result has been freeing employees to do more value-added work—in large part thanks to deeper, faster insights into data than has been possible beforehand. According to Hwee-Xian […]
Reaching New Heights on the Fortune 500 List
For the fifth year in a row, Salesforce has climbed higher on the Fortune 500 ranks — the list of the largest U.S. corporations by revenue. Salesforce is now at #240, rising from #285 last year. Since we debuted on this list in 2015, we’ve jumped nearly 200 positions. Few other companies have climbed on […]
Salesforce Announces New Workforce Development Initiatives, Extending Training Opportunities and Accelerating Hiring of the Military Community
New technologies in the Fourth Industrial Revolution are transforming our economies, our societies and our jobs. According to the World Economic Forum, nearly 35 percent of the skills required for jobs will change across industries by 2020. Today, at least 1 in 4 workers in OECD countries is already reporting a mismatch with regard to […]
Western Global grows over 200 percent globally with NetSuite
NetSuite Helps Fueling Solution Provider Reduce Complexity, Integrate a New Acquisition and Drive Global Growth LONDON, UK—May 14, 2019—Western Global, a provider of fuel storage and dispensing solutions, selected and implemented Oracle NetSuite to help support its 220 percent growth over the last five years. With NetSuite, Western Global has been better able to reduce […]