Cloud Computing
Dreamforce, the world-leading cloud computing conference, is a sweet memory lingering from last week. I’m sure attendants arrived at their desk this Monday morning with a smile and a resolve to instantly instigate discontinuous change in their companies. Starting afresh, more mobile & cloud-enabled. Takeaways from Dreamforce 2014 1 of 6 Wave Dreamforce’s #1 … Read more
Dreamforce 2014, #DF14, the cloud computing business’ largest and most exciting conference, starts today in San Francisco and will last for 4 days. Expect announcements of important strategic developments to lead the business community to mobile and social cloud computing. Dreamforce 2014, Many Superlatives A record 140,000 in-person conference visitors swarming between 18 different … Read more
Salesforce.com launched Sales Cloud1 and Service Cloud1, its re-invented Sales and Service apps, yesterday. Sales reps and service agents now can access a wide range of CRM tools vial their mobile devices, to realize smarter sales and transformative customer service. Last November, Salesforce.com introduced Salesforce1 ~ a major stepping stone in making its CRM tools mobile. Salesforce1 … Read more
This week the sixth annual Cloud World Forum in London, UK, successfully brought together EMEA’s IT world and management to further enterprise cloud migration. Challenges & solutions as well as latest innovation & trends in cloud computing were shared by 300+ speakers from 74 countries and a crowd of 8,000 international IT professionals and business leaders. Cloud World … Read more
Salesforce unveiled the world’s first enterprise cloud computing app for wearables, Salesforce Wear. Leading other enterprise cloud players and customers, it anticipates the near-future introductions of wearables: Salesforce’s initiative precedes the Apple’s iWatch launch, rumored to be this Fall. It also preempts the introduction of other important wearables. Salesforce Wear is Salesforce.com’s effort to stay … Read more
There’s plenty of news trending about the cloud these days. Software giants Microsoft and SAP announced an agreement to expand their global partnership by integrating one another’s cloud-based applications. Meanwhile, Dropbox boosted its desire for photo apps and services with the purchase of photo startup Bubbli. Let’s not forget the Zendesk IPO, which saw the … Read more
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has earned high marks for his first four months at the helm of the software giant. His performance garnered the company’s stock an upgrade Thursday from research firm FBR Capital Markets. FBR analyst Daniel Ives raised his rating on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock to outperform from market perform and hiked his price … Read more
This seminar will cover principles and guidelines of GRC as they apply to cloud computing. Seminar instructor Javier F. Kuong is the President and Principal Consultant of Management Advisory Services& Publications, an organization that for over 30 years has been devoted solely to consulting, training, publications, research and development in Enterprise… This seminar will cover … Read more
Cloud computing is unleashing a “shotgun of innovation” in the public sector, says former federal CIO Vivek Kundra, now executive VP at Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com announced Friday that it has received the authority to operate (ATO) on its new Government Cloud, both for platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS). With the ATO, granted under the Federal Risk … Read more
IBM is offering cloud services to cover patient care, customer data analysis and other specific industry processes May 29 — Hoping to jump out in front of providers of generic cloud services, IBM has launched a portfolio of cloud packages, called IBM Cloud Business Solutions, designed to run specific business processes such as asset management … Read more