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 […]
AI boot camp aims to draw more teen girls into computer science
As an engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Didem Un Ates was one of only five women in a graduating class of 180. Today, she’s on a mission is to drastically change those numbers. Un Ates is part of a Microsoft team that launched “Alice envisions the future,” a boot camp […]
Microsoft and General Assembly launch partnership to close the global AI skills gap
Microsoft Corp. and global education provider General Assembly (GA) on Friday announced a partnership to close skills gaps in the rapidly growing fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and data engineering, machine learning, data science, and more. This initiative will create standards and credentials for AI skills, upskill and reskill 15,000 workers by 2022, and […]
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 […]
Cultivating the next gen of coders – ninja style
Strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” suddenly fill the Denver dojo. The song drowns out the merry din of bells, whistles, dings and dance beats that usually flow from freshly built computer games. The ninjas all pause their work. The song signals that one of their own is the first to reach a coveted milestone, yellow […]
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 […]
Leading Pharmacy Extends 100 Year Legacy with Oracle
Farmatodo, a leading Venezuelan self-service chain of pharmacies, has specialized in providing medicine, personal care, beauty and baby products to help consumers care for themselves and their families for more than 100 years. Through a seamless shopping experience, the company offers approximately 8000 products in more than 200 stores and online in Venezuela and Colombia. […]
Colleges and universities team up with Microsoft to address the technical skills gap by building global talent pipelines for AI, data science, computer science and cybersecurity
Microsoft Corp. announced new partnerships with global higher education institutions to align and integrate Microsoft’s technical skills programs and credentials to help address the growing 21st century talent gap. The skills programs will help students prepare for the jobs of tomorrow with in-demand technologies in fields like artificial intelligence, computer science, cybersecurity and data science. […]
New NetSuite partner initiative meets global demand for Cloud ERP
To meet growing customer demand for cloud ERP systems that has seen strong growth for Oracle NetSuite in the last year, NetSuite today announced SuiteLife, a new partner engagement initiative. SuiteLife represents the largest investment NetSuite has ever made in its partner ecosystem and encompasses a number of the NetSuite Partner Programs, which include more […]