Salesforce Leans on AI Acquisitions, not Headcount Growth

Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM) recently announced first quarter results that soared past market expectations. The company recently made a few acquisitions to continue its growth trajectory.

1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner at Priven Advisors (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. My thesis also is that the defensible businesses are domain knowledge heavy in AI. The layers of abstraction to some extent are already in place, and there’s going to be more. Just to give you a feel for my framework, I look a lot at the parallel with the cloud computing infrastructure

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Salesforce’s AppExchange Accelerate Webinar

Sramana Mitra was a panelist during Salesforce’s webinar this week discussing The Enterprise App Market and Incubators. You can listen to the recording here.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Elizabeth Cholawsky, General Manager of IT Support Product Line, Citrix (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The part of the market I was referring to as the broader support market includes products like Assistly, for instance, which is inside of Salesforce.com, Zendesk, and a variety of startups and other companies that have come up with products in that space. Those are not what you compete with?

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Markos Symeonides, EVP, Axios Systems (Part 5)

Sramana: So, it’s the usual adoption cycle. I think we’re still at that early adopter phase of these technologies. Markos: Yes, definitely. People get concerned. They say, “Wait a minute. We don’t want the business being disturbed by all these things.” So, they don’t have to be disturbed, but it’s a case of you need

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jesse Lipson, Founder and CEO, ShareFile by Citrix (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you look at cloud computing in general, where do you see startup opportunities? For example, in 2005, you identified file sharing as one of the opportunities. What do you see today from your vantage point? Jesse Lipson: I think a lot of customers, especially on the enterprise side, still have not adopted

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Bernardo de Albergaria and Tommy Ahlers of Citrix Online (Part 4)

SM: From your perspective, what is the state of the union, in terms of the connectors, that would allow you to realize the vision of deeper integration? BdA: I would say newer, contemporary, agile services like Podio are built on connectors. Podio is itself is built on its own APIs. So, new services are already

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Singh, CEO of Concur (Part 1)

Business travel can be a pain, especially when it comes to knowing you can and can’t include on your expense account when you return. Concur is one company that will help you remain compliant with your company’s policies and still enjoy your trip as much as possible. Founded in 1993, Concur is a leading provider

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