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  • in Healthcare IT, News

    Joshua Newman: Salesforce Health Cloud Meets FedRAMP Security Standards

    Salesforce.com‘s health cloud platform has met FedRAMP security standards requirements and has been included on the company’s moderate Authority-to-Operate for the Government Cloud platform, Salesforce said in a post published Monday. Joshua Newman, Salesforce chief medical officer and general medical officer of healthcare and life sciences, wrote the Health Cloud platform has been authorized for deployment on […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Carahsoft to Distribute AdvoLogix Legal Matter Mgmt Services Across Public Sector Markets

    Carahsoft has teamed up with AdvoLogix to distribute the latter’s cloud-based law practice and legal matter management services in the local, city, state and federal government markets. AdvoLogix said Tuesday its software-as-a-service suite was designed to help legal departments in the government update matter management processes, prioritize workloads, focus legal capacity, simplify document/email management and streamline internal and external collaboration. Carahsoft […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Ekuber Ventures to Help Maintain Commerce Dept’s Customer Relationship, Content Mgmt Systems

    The Commerce Department has selected ekuber Ventures to provide lifecycle support for the department’s customer relationship management and Drupal content management systems under a multi-million dollar contract. Ekuber said Tuesday it will maintain a Siebel CRM platform in three ecosystems for the department as well as transition applications to the Salesforce platform. The company will also help the department implement Drupal components, develop Drupal features, move into the Amazon […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Salesforce Taps AWS to Provide Public Cloud Infrastructure; Andy Jassy Comments

    Salesforce has picked Amazon Web Services to provide a public cloud infrastructure to the customer relationship management company as part of Salesforce’s effort to expand its international service infrastructure. Salesforce will migrate its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, App Cloud, Community Cloud and Analytics Cloud to the AWS platform under the agreement, AWS said Wednesday. AWS CEO […] More

  • in Industry News, News, Products & Service

    ID.me-Salesforce Team to Help Manage Applications for Veteran Employment Program

    ID.me has teamed up with Salesforce to manage and assess the eligibility of applicants that look to utilize the latter company’s veteran employment program. VetForce provides free access to IT and business certification courses for members of the military community and works to match transitioning veterans with job positions that fit their respective skill sets and qualifications, Salesforce said […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    Vivek Kundra: Salesforce Releases ‘Cloud Lightning’ Platform for Govt Clients

    Salesforce has introduced a technology platform that seeks to help public-sector organizations build applications intended to connect agencies with their employees, partners, suppliers and customers. Government Cloud Lightning has been developed as part of the company’s multitenant public cloud infrastructure and is designed for organizations at all levels of government as well as federally funded research-and-development centers and contractors, Salesforce said Thursday. Vivek Kundra, […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    MIL Corp Eyes IT Sector Opportunities Through Salesforce Alliance

    MIL Corp. has teamed up with customer relationship management services firm Salesforce in an effort to continue the former company’s push to expand its information technology business. MIL’s partnership with the CRM company has facilitated an increase in the number of workers on Salesforce-based projects and in its customer base, MIL said Monday. The company added it […] More

  • in News

    Peter Sacripanti, Graham Smith Join Citrix Board; Bob Calderoni Comments

    Peter Sacripanti, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, and former Salesforce Chief Financial Officer Graham Smith have joined the board of directors at Citrix. Citrix said Tuesday Sacripanti, chair of the executive committee of McDermott Will & Emery, will serve on the audit and finance committees of Citrix and Smith on the compensation committee. “Both are highly accomplished business […] More

  • in Government Cloud, News

    Report: IT Sector’s Public Cloud Revenues Hit $22B in Q2 2015

    Synergy Research Group reports that information technology companies generated a combined revenue of $22 billion from public cloud platforms and services during 2015’s second quarter. The market research firm said Thursday hardware, software and data center infrastructure accounted for $10 billion of the IT industry’s quarterly public cloud revenue. IT firms collectively sold about $12 […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    Acumen Releases Customer Communication Mgmt Platform for Govt Sector; Jay Tansing Comments

    Acumen Solutions has launched a new platform designed to help government agencies manage customer correspondence in print, on mobile and online. The Correspondence Management-a Salesforce Fullforce Solution for Government works to automatically route citizen service requests to the applicable lines of business, Acumen said July 31. “Public sector organizations spend countless hours managing important correspondence […] More

  • in Mobility, News

    Vivek Kundra: BlackBerry, Salesforce Form Enterprise Mobile Market Partnership

    Salesforce.com and BlackBerry have partnered to develop a mobility product that combines Salesforce’s Customer Success Platform and BlackBerry’s enterprise mobility management tools in an effort to support the productivity, security and collaboration requirements of a mobile workforce. BlackBerry said Thursday its BES12 software works to deliver customer relationship management and device management to deliver mobile end-to-end services across enterprise mobile platforms. “This agreement will allow […] More