There are skeptics aplenty about the Apple Watch, but Salesforce is certainly a believer. The enterprise cloud services giant was part of the Apple Watch launch and is promoting Salesforce Wear as a tool for developers to create apps for the device that also sync with the Salesforce Cloud. The company hosted a media event this week in San Francisco to talk about 20 new … [Read more...]
Salesforce Survey Says Enterprise Wearables to Grow 3x by 2017
Salesforce, which has considerable skin in the wearables game, is out with a survey today showing that enterprises are trying out wearables for workplace security, employee time management, and real-time communication. Coming soon, the company says, are pilot projects in business analytics and field service. Salesforce surveyed about 1,500 companies; of those, 500 said they … [Read more...]
will.i.am Intros the Puls Wearable
For an enterprise-oriented show, there sure has been a ton of buzz over what kind of wearable the singer will.i.am will introduce -- and why it's coming out at Dreamforce. The product is called the Puls. It's a cuff-style wristband with a very cool curved screen. Pictures from the initial handout are a little hard to distinguish, but it appears to use a touch screen of some … [Read more...]
will.i.am to Join Wearables Business
The rapper will.i.am, best known from the band Black Eyed Peas, will be unveiling a wearable tech product next week at the Dreamforce conference. Called the i.am+, the device "allows for a sixth sense mentality and represents a new way of being connected." No, we don't know what that means. will.i.am, whose birth name is William Adams, has long been a technophile. He once … [Read more...]
Salesforce Extends Wearables Further Into the Enterprise
A couple of months ago, we wrote about how cloud software company Salesforce had started a pilot program to incorporate wearables into the enterprise. The company is back now with a progress report, having signed on a bunch of particularly interesting companies. Daniel Debow, SVP of Emerging Technologies at Salesforce, told WTI that the Salesforce Wear package now supports … [Read more...]
Salesforce Brings Wearables Into the Enterprise with Salesforce Wear
We've long believed that the most exciting thing about wearables isn't the Quantified Self movement as much as it is how wearables can change the relationship between people and entities. (It's much the same as early personal computers: standalone computer were much less interesting than computers connected to the Internet.) Salesforce -- the world's top CRM platform -- … [Read more...]