E-Commerce Minute

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E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- May 5, 2017

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Reinventing Online Marketplaces in the Cloud
AI Is Still in Its Formative Years
Ecosystem Two-Dot-Oh
Salesforce Rejiggers Enterprise Apps Partner Plan
Microsoft Aims to School Google With Education Onslaught
Congress Probes United Airlines' Customer Mishandling

Today's Story Highlights

Reinventing Online Marketplaces in the Cloud
In the cloud, showcasing the partner ecosystem in an online marketplace
has become an imperative. Salesforce has been in the vanguard of this
trend. Since its inception in 2005, the AppExchange has grown to include
more than 3,000 partner solutions that augment Salesforce's growing
portfolio of cloud services. AppExchange has strengthened significantly
Salesforce's position in the marketplace.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84510.html

AI Is Still in Its Formative Years
The convergence of algorithmic advances in multilayer neural networks,
the evolution of PC graphics processing units as massively parallel
processing accelerators, and the availability of massive data sets
fueled by the Internet and widely deployed sensors -- big data -- has
enabled a renaissance in software neural network modeling techniques
commonly referred to as "deep learning," or "DL."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84505.html

Ecosystem Two-Dot-Oh
Salesforce this week announced significant enhancements to its
AppExchange Partner Program, including a $100 million Salesforce
Platform Fund to encourage developers of AI-driven solutions. Salesforce
arguably was the first kid on the block with a partner program of this
kind in which buyers could access a large community of apps based on a
single standard from a single store.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84508.html

Salesforce Rejiggers Enterprise Apps Partner Plan
Salesforce on Tuesday launched the AppExchange Partner Program, or APP,
for developers, independent software vendors and startups, as a
replacement for its current ISV Partner Program. The APP will cost much
less. Its baseline percent-net-revenue model for all new APP partners
has been slashed from 25 percent to 15 percent. Current partners will be
eligible for the new PNR terms on contract renewal.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84506.html

Microsoft Aims to School Google With Education Onslaught
Microsoft on Tuesday launched a major effort to bulldoze its way into
the educational computing space carved out by Google, with the
introduction of a streamlined operating system called "Windows 10 S," a
range of new collaborative programs for K-12 schools, and two new
Surface laptops aimed at the college student market. The Surface laptop
runs on the Windows 10 S operating system.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84500.html

Congress Probes United Airlines' Customer Mishandling
United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz on Tuesday apologized to the United
States Congress for his company causing a passenger to be dragged off a
UA flight last month. United failed its customers and failed as a
company in that incident, and this has to be a turning point for the
airline, Munoz told the U.S. House of Representatives Transportation
Committee at a hearing into airline industry practices.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84498.html

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