Editor's Pick: Dreamforce Points to New Disruption

Dreamforce Points to New Disruption

Denis Pombriant Dec 4, 2019 4:00 AM PT

There were more than 170,000 people at Dreamforce a couple of weeks ago, and many more watching from afar. Also, there were well over 2,000 sessions. Numerous announcements sprang from the big Salesforce event. Some announcements and sessions, like the Tim Cook fireside chat, stand out. Of the top six, I reckon that five were more about integration and working across vendor boundaries than CRM. [More...]

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