Boston was buzzing this week, as the Salesforce World Tour took over. Packed with powerful customer stories, exciting announcements, and inspirational leadership discussions. We had fun, gave back, and drank some awesome lemonade...let us explain.
We joined Salesforce Vice Chairman, President and COO, Keith Block for our Boston Salesforce World Tour keynote, "Become A Trailblazer." Check it out on demand for updates to our corporate vision, exciting new announcements, and special guests.
Salesforce.org partnered with Boston Partners in Education and the Timilty Middle School to help teach kids STEM and entrepreneurship skills to tackle 21st century challenges. Attendees visited their lemonade stand for a refreshing drink and to learn more about their project. $1 for each lemonade distributed was donated to Boston Partners in Education as well as the Timilty Middle School.
The kids of Timilty Middle School distributed a whopping 715 glasses of lemonade! Watch the interview with some of the hard-working kids of Timilty Middle School here.
Did you know that one-third of the average company’s revenue comes from partners? We think it's time to apply more innovative technology to such a critical business practice. We were thrilled to announce Sales Cloud Lightning Partner Relationship Management (PRM) in Boston. The new app that brings the world’s #1 CRM directly into a turnkey PRM app to make it fast and easy for companies to provide partners with everything they need to sell--all in one place. Sales Cloud Lightning PRM arms every manufacturing partner, distributor and reseller with the personalized tools and information they need to sell smarter and faster. This means that whether you’re an OEM manufacturer, a production supplier, or a distribution and aftermarket supplier, you can use Sales Cloud PRM to communicate and deliver solutions to your supply chain partners. Read more about Sales Cloud PRM here.
Funding the future is more important than ever. Announced at Boston Salesforce World Tour is Salesforce Ventures announced the $50 Million SI Trailblazer Fund. Aimed at investing in cloud startups to get them up and rolling in the tech world. Salesforce Ventures is committed to partners who will provide consulting that will help grow Salesforce solutions. Learn more here about the $50 Million SI Trailblazer Fund here.
Neeracha Taychakhoonavudh, SVP of Partner & Industry Innovation, Salesforce, and Matt Garratt, VP, Salesforce Ventures, discussed the new fund, live from the the center of the Customer Success Expo in Boston. Check it out:
Build modern engaging applications that people love. Attendees in Boston learned a lot from the Salesforce for Developers keynote including how to create apps that are faster, smarter, and together with your team. Watch the full keynote below. Pssst...Want to learn even more? Register for TrailheaDX by 6/1 and get two free Salesforce certification vouchers: http://sforce.co/trailheadx
We were so happy to meet the attendees who joined us in person in Boston, and were just as excited to be joined by so many of our ohana online.