"Slack looks like the natural fit for Salesforce to beef up its collaboration and messaging footprint and keep pace with [Microsoft]."
The deal “could provide businesses and customers with more support for interactions that occur on Facebook and its other apps."
"Our results, amidst this global crisis, demonstrated our ability to execute at speed, innovate at scale and the strength of our business model."
The $1.33 billion deal "signals the importance of making industry capabilities even more a part of the [Salesforce] platform offerings."
Trafficking survivors allege Salesforce's CRM tools helped the Backpage website to facilitate prostitution and sexual exploitation.
The ERP market is in great flux as 2018 winds down, positioning some ERPs in unaccustomed positions as market leaders.
Qualtrics says its "experience management" solutions represent a “vast, rapidly growing, and underpenetrated market opportunity.”
“We grew faster than every ‘best-of-breed’ cloud [competitor] out there,” CEO Bill McDermott says.
Few CFOs take the time to forecast their balance sheets, preferring to rely on their P&Ls to monitor their cash levels.
The growing popularity of best-of-breed applications plays into the hands of data integrators like Talend.
While no one can look into the future, a smart CFO can use predictive analytics to understand the market and use that insight to generate growth.
The software firm has been expanding into cloud-based apps amid increasing competition in its core CRM business.
