Salesforce ramps up to sell government agencies on its cloud business
June 9, 2014
Grazed from Mohana Ravindranath.
Salesforce.com got its start in 1999 selling software to businesses, helping them manage customer data for sales leads. Fifteen years later, the San Francisco-based company is ramping up to reach a different audience: the federal government. As part of this attempt, Salesforce debuted cloud services for federal agencies before 4,000 business partners and government representatives recently at a company-sponsored conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the District.
Spearheading the public-sector push is Vivek Kundra, an executive vice president at Salesforce who until 2011 served as the United States’ first chief information officer. As CIO, Kundra issued a “cloud first” policy, mandating that federal agencies take advantage of the Internet cloud as a way to reduce costs and develop new applications…
In an interview outside the conference, Kundra said that the shift may have started slowly but that momentum is growing…
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