If it’s true that your enemies are a good reflection of who you are, then it’s clear that Salesforce is a customer-company dynamo. Three of the world’s most-powerful companies have high hopes of carving into the huge market shares and growth rates that Salesforce has earned over the past decade as the undisputed king of CRM.
Below is a lightly edited transcript of my conversation with CarMax CIO Shamim Mohammad. CarMax is a highly disruptive and fast-growing company that’s committed to providing superb experiences for people buying and selling cars. In Shamim’s six years at CarMax he’s led a variety of strategic business technology initiatives, and recently he and his team have
While many SaaS vendors are performing extremely well these days in the Cloud Wars, the largest of them all by far, Salesforce, continues to execute at a pace and on a scale that others can so far only dream about. Having just closed the books on $13-billion year, and with plans to double that in
Marc Benioff has spent the last 20 years building an iconoclastic company brand and a personal brand, and his unique approach toward engaging with the world was on full-power display at a recent technology-investors conference where he spoke not about cloud, ML and IoT but rather trust, values and culture. Asked if the uneasiness many
As the cloud becomes the most influential enterprise-technology platform in 2019, the mix among the top five cloud vendors of “cloud-native” hotshots and “legacy” veterans underscores not only the rapid rise of the hybrid cloud but also the end of any reasonable claim that the big traditional tech companies are not cloud companies. In today’s