Dreamforce 2016 Recap
This year, I had the incredible opportunity to attend Dreamforce 2016 ( many thanks to Marc Benioff ) Previously, I put together a list of lingering questions around Dreamforce 2016 and the various announcements circulating around Salesforce Einstein, and the Quip and Demandware acquisitions, respectively. I'd like to respond to these questions with insights I learned from the conference as well as my outlook for the future. Overall, I came away impressed with the incredible investments Salesforce has made not with any one solution but in the platform as a whole. Salesforce Einstein: What is it? Why does it matter? First, I would be remiss to not talk about Salesforce's word of the year: Einstein . Einstein is "formally" introduced at Dreamforce 2016 Einstein is Salesforce's grand vision of an applied big data platform underlying all of its solutions. It is the culmination of Salesforce's strategic acquisitions, hiring of exceptiona