YES BANK has partnered with Salesforce to power its retail lending business and deliver intelligent personalized customer experiences through the Salesforce platform capabilities.

The private lender is the first bank in the country to collaborate with Salesforce for loan origination and processing With this new partnership, the internal and external ecosystem of the bank will also be empowered

Big news: Salesforce is acquiring Slack!! Together, they deliver the operating system for the new way to work

Prior to Slack, Salesforce’s biggest deals were the $15.3 billion purchase of Tableau last year and the $6.5 billion acquisition of MuleSoft in 2018.

Slack will be deeply integrated into every Salesforce Cloud. As the new interface for Salesforce Customer 360.

Every Salesforce Developer must check out apex-recipes. Very useful & I love everything about this but here are some cool things:

1) trigger framework pattern
2) apex REST with reusable code
3) How to check FLS in code And many more.

Apex Recipesis a library of concise, meaningful examples of code for common use cases following best practices. They reflect enterprise patterns that can be utilized for real world solutions. The code is intended to reflect clarity while trying to maintain brevity. 

https://developer.salesforce.com/blogs/2020/10/introducing-apex-recipes.html

Salesforce : Named one of the World's Best Workplaces for the fourth year in a row!

#salesforceohana #bestplacestowork

Salesforce.com Inc. announced an alliance with Okta Inc. that will connect key employee data with contact-tracing technology, expanding Salesforce’s effort to develop software for businesses dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

The tools track employee shifts, handle emergency management and offer manual contact-tracing features in the event of a potential Covid-19 outbreak.

Source: Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/salesforce-okta-partner-to-help-businesses-with-contact-tracing

Under the plan, Tableau CRM will provide an integrated analytics and AI experience within Salesforce's CRM workflow and be a key part of Salesforce Customer 360. The argument is that digital transformation is also a data transformation.

Salesforce is launching four industry clouds for communications, media, utilities and public sector courtesy of its Vlocity acquisition.