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Salesforce launches ‘Manufacturing Cloud’ to help align sales with operations

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Salesforce has launched a new service called “Manufacturing Cloud”, which the company says enables companies to align their sales activities with their manufacturing operations.

Salesforce is one of the world’s leading customer relations management platforms, and the company says its new industry offering allows manufacturers to strategically plan to meet customer commitments and better react to market changes.

Salesforce has collaborated with major manufacturing and sales companies through the product pilot program, including Kawasaki Motors, Hitachi Chemical, CF Industries, Mipox, Gelita and more. [Read more…] about Salesforce launches ‘Manufacturing Cloud’ to help align sales with operations

Commentary: Exponential growth of IoT becoming the next tech revolution

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MarketNewsUpdates.com news commentary

Global internet of things markets are poised to achieve significant growth through the use of sensors, widgets, cameras, and platforms that are used to help implement precision digital control and send alerts for all manner or management of devices and machinery.

Visualization and digitization are permitting a growing number of companies and individuals better control of any device or mechanical thing while present a diversity of uses for digital tracking devices in industry, healthcare and consumer markets.

The market is growing at a rapid pace because of increasing popularity and integration in various consumer markets.  [Read more…] about Commentary: Exponential growth of IoT becoming the next tech revolution

Salesforce signs up machine learning company PredictionIO to its empire

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salesforce tower, san farancisco
Salesforce’s billion-dollar tower in San Francisco is set for completion in 2017

Salesforce has signed a “definitive agreement” to buy startup company PredictionIO, which owns an open source machine learning server for developers and data scientists to build and deploy predictive applications.

“We couldn’t be more excited to join Salesforce,” writes Simon Chan, co-founder and CEO of PredictionIO, on his blog.

Just over six months ago, UK-based PredictionIO raised $2.5 million in seed funding from a number of investors, including Stanford University’s StartX Fund. [Read more…] about Salesforce signs up machine learning company PredictionIO to its empire