Marc Benioff and Parket Harris, co-founders of San Francisco-based cloud computing company , revealed that the company has come to working on a blockchain product that could soon be listed in the company’s product offering.
Thinking of blockchain technology and ways to use it for Salesforce purposes came to Marc Benioff during his participation in the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. He recognized an opportunity to expand Salesforce in a meaningful manner after a conversation with a conference attendee.
In the interview (see the video above), Benioff said: “I had been thinking a lot about what is Salesforce’s strategy around blockchain, and what is Salesforce’s strategies around cryptocurrencies and how will we relate to all of these things. He is actually a big believer in the power of serendipity, and he said just by having that conversation, it started him down the road to thinking more seriously about Salesforce’s role in this developing technology. He said the more he thought about it, the more he believed that Salesforce could make use of Blockchain. Then suddenly something clicked for him and he saw a way to put blockchain and cryptocurrencies to work in Salesforce. That’s kind of how it works and I hope by Dreamforce we will have a blockchain and cryptocurrency solution.”
He added: “That’s kind of how it works and I hope by Dreamforce we will have a blockchain and cryptocurrency solution.” This year Dreamforce, Salesforce’s annual customer conference, is scheduled to be held in San Francisco from September 25-28.
Salesforce has always been a company that is remaining up-to-date with evolving big technology. Founded in 1999, Salesforce is the world’s number 1 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform in the cloud which replaced traditional desktop CRM software. Salesforce services are accessible anytime from anywhere. As all Salesforce products run entirely in the cloud, there’s no expensive setup costs, no maintenance and employees can work from any device with an internet connection – smartphone, tablet or laptop.
CRM can be easily used by both small businesses and large scale enterprises. Used by more than 150,000 companies, Salesforce generated an annual revenue of $8.40 billion in fiscal 2017.
Blockchain technology is becoming more and more popular. One of the most blockchain-friendly states Arizona just advanced its ranking, , or the Corporations/Blockchain Technology bill, as an amendment to the Arizona Revised Statutes, which “signatures and records secured through blockchain technology and smart contracts.” With the amendment, data that’s stored and shared by corporations on the blockchain also becomes valid.
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2018 is shaping up to be the year of bitcoin in academia as more and more institutes for higher education enter the field. The latest example comes from a number of top ranked business schools in the US that are expanding their offering due to student demands.
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Competitive Advantage
Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business will offer a full-time cryptocurrency course beginning this May. The new class came about following a coordinated campaign by MBA students who see the innovative concept as vital for their future careers. “Many of us will have to discuss blockchain at our jobs. It makes sense to teach it,” explained second-year student Itamar Orr. “It gets you a competitive advantage; it’s an extra hammer in your toolbox.”
A group of students petitioned the school’s leadership to add the full-time class as before it only covered the field on a pop-up basis. Once Stanford opened the class to registration the wider demand was confirmed as it was closed with over fifty candidates on the waiting list.
Susan Athey, the technology professor who will teach the new class, commented to : “The fluctuations in the prices have everyone mesmerized: Just how did this happen? Many people have gone boom or bust and that’s, of course, exciting, attracts a lot of interest and motivates people to understand what’s going on.”
Critical Mass Achieved
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania will also offer a cryptocurrency class this fall for the first time. Professor Kevin Werbach said: “We’re at the point where there’s a critical mass to teach this domain. There will be a real phenomenon in business for the foreseeable future, and five years down the road there won’t be too many major business schools that don’t offer similar classes.”
It’s not just students that are asking for more classes but industry as well. John Jacobs, executive director of Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, revealed he is “constantly” getting calls from Wall Street and consulting firms’ recruiters saying, “You need to train them. We need people to understand how to apply blockchain technology.” He added that: “Any world-class program is going to have to equip students in this field to compete. It’s everywhere we turn around.”
As we previously reported, other universities located in financial centers are such as and , have also recently begun responding to students’ demands for bitcoin education.
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