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Salesforce's new 'Trusted' AI Cloud may aim for security and extensibility, but real value lies in the pursuit of precision in modern CRM.

It baffles me why the industry is so hung up on data, and Salesforce's Tableau conference was a prime example. Let's look at how the industry is positioning Tableau and products like it, usually focusing on the idea of data.

Oracle has waxed and waned over the years about the benefits accrued using an integrated suite of applications instead of opening up to a slew of best-of-breed apps. They're back now, peddling the idea of a unified suite in marketing.

We can at least prepare for an uncertain economic future if we remove the blinders that lead us to believe that tomorrow will be an exact replay of today. Profitability and more long-term thinking should go hand in hand. It looks like a framework for this is on the horizon.

Generative AI's appeal stems from the potential to lower costs (labor) while maintaining close customer relationships. Hence, CRM vendors are all over it, like junkyard dogs.

Salesforce’s quantum characteristics are largely due to its ability to let its machines generate some of its products, and that will continue.

It's vital to stay ahead of the activists and to act before they force your hand, even if the results will be very similar. Staying ahead means possibly keeping some activists off your board of directors.

Activist investors frequently, but not always, strip a company of its equity, load it with debt, and cast it off, a quivering hulk of a once dynamic company. It's too early to say this fate awaits Salesforce, and it's important to see the process work out because there is some truth in the need for ...

Zoho Desk provides impressive agent productivity and happier customers because its "blended conversations" drive solutions and keep waiting times minuscule.

The model for success in CRM always went through first helping customers do right by their customers, but then also helping the second generation of customers help their customers in turn, and not just customers but stakeholders -- employees, partners, localities -- all of them.

The need for greater spending control in a tough economy, plus bulging inventories of best-of-breed apps, suggests that 2023 might be challenging for smaller CRM vendors.

Implicit in the failure idea is that you succeed now and then, and it’s only to get to the successes that we seek fast failure. If it ain’t gonna work, let’s be done with it and try something else.

Maybe it's time to reinvent the corporate research lab for IT in the 21st century. If Salesforce isn't a good pick to bring back the corporate research lab, I don't know who could. I think Bret Taylor could run it, which might be a greater use of his prodigious talents.

Many employees whose position at Twitter was to take input and register customer concerns are among the recently eliminated jobs. It's as if the message is: we don't want your input.

CloudWorld was a show about the stack and infrastructure, from databases to cloud data centers, as well as the platforms. It was designed to say that Oracle has the goods to support global business with minimal technical debt.

How do they do this? That's all I want to know. On Tuesday at CloudWorld, Oracle introduced MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse, which it says offers 17-fold faster query performance against Snowflake and 6-fold faster than Redshift on a 400 TB workload.

With Oracle Alloy, service providers, integrators, and ISVs working with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) can keep workloads in-country and operate clouds independently -- innovating and customizing as the need arises and taking advantage of new opportunities.

CloudWorld, Oracle's rebranded user conference, kicks off this week in Las Vegas. The venue change during Covid also changed the vibe of the conference that once dominated San Francisco, but it's for the best.

Regardless of how the Twitter acquisition turns out, it looks like the big winner will be CRM, both the industry and the ticker symbol.

Salesforce is reinventing itself. Again. It’s been a long time arriving, but Salesforce is changing by doing its best to change the economy and the ground rules business has been operating under since Milton Friedman’s heyday.