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3 weeks ago | 
salesforceben.com | Sasha Semjonova |Ben McCarthy
It has recently been announced that Logik.AI, an AI-powered CPQ solution, has been acquired by ServiceNow. This comes not long after ServiceNow stepped into the world of CRM, and Logik.AI’s strong sales and commerce capabilities will allow ServiceNow’s growing CRM presence to be accelerated through greater efficiency and higher productivity.
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3 weeks ago | 
salesforceben.com | Ben McCarthy |Sasha Semjonova
Artificial intelligence has been the buzzword in the Salesforce ecosystem for over two years now. We are being told that if we as professionals and businesses don’t adapt to this new reality, we’re going to be all out of jobs. Whilst I can’t say for sure if this is true, what I can tell you is that ChatGPT saves content creators like me hours, days, and possibly collectively, years of time.
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2 months ago | 
salesforceben.com | Sasha Semjonova |Thomas Morgan |Lauren Westwood |Ben McCarthy
TrailblazerDX, the event for admins, developers, architects, students, leaders, entrepreneurs, and everyone in between, returns on March 5-6, 2025. The sessions have now been announced and are available to view here to start planning your agenda!At the time of writing this, there are 292 sessions listed, and that’s a lot to sort through! That’s why we’ve put together a handy list of what we think some of the top sessions will be to attend. Not able to make it in person this year?
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
salesforceben.com | Sasha Semjonova |Tara Walton |Anastasia Posivets |Chris Mascaro
Salesforce’s growth – particularly over the last decade – has been monumental. Marc Benioff’s insatiable appetite for innovation and change has seen the cloud company accelerate into truly unchartered territory, lifting the ecosystem up right along with it. However, with growth comes both benefits and unfortunate pitfalls. Perhaps the biggest and most brushed-aside pitfall of all? The rise of broken, mismanaged, and downright wrong Salesforce implementations.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
salesforceben.com | Sasha Semjonova |Ben McCarthy
The biggest wish for many of us, no matter what industry we’re in, is to be in a job that we actually enjoy. If you’re working in a volatile industry (like the Salesforce ecosystem can arguably be considered), then your odds can be even less favorable than normal. But, that doesn’t mean employee satisfaction suddenly goes down the drain either.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
salesforceben.com | Sasha Semjonova |Ben McCarthy
In a busy year for acquisitions, Gearset have announced that they have acquired code reviewer analysis platform Clayton. As part of an expansion effort that aims to expand its offering as one of the biggest Salesforce DevOps solutions, this collaboration will hopefully bring the undisputed power of Gearset together with Clayton’s trusted and secure code analysis and configuration to transform DevOps processes going forward.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
salesforceben.com | Ben McCarthy |Christine Marshall |Sasha Semjonova
Over the past 25 years, Salesforce has had a meteoric rise in the world of enterprise technology. They are one of the most successful modern startup stories, having been founded in a one-bedroom flat in 1999, and now supply most enterprise businesses worldwide with the suite of tools they need to succeed. The Salesforce job market has also seen a meteoric rise in recent years from being a relatively unknown career path to becoming one of the most talked about technology ecosystems.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
salesforceben.com | Ben McCarthy |Sasha Semjonova
Salesforce announced yesterday that they were acquiring Own Company, one of the largest Salesforce Backup providers in the ecosystem in a deal worth $1.9B. This deal is the largest since Slack back at the tail end of 2020 and marks an important milestone both for Salesforce and the wider ecosystem. Let’s dig into the details and look at how this shakes things up…Own Company, previously called Own Backup until they rebranded last year, is a modern startup success story in the Salesforce ecosystem.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
salesforceben.com | Christine Marshall |Sasha Semjonova |Ben McCarthy |Jeff Sample
The Salesforce Talent Alliance is an exciting initiative designed to empower job seekers from underrepresented communities as they work towards earning their first Salesforce credential and landing their first Salesforce role. If you’re looking to break into the Salesforce ecosystem and want to be part of a supportive, inclusive community, this program might be the perfect opportunity for you.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
salesforceben.com | Sasha Semjonova |Christine Marshall |Ausra Puniskyte
As we move past the halfway point of 2024, it’s worth examining the latest status of the Salesforce job market. If you’ve been keeping up to date with recent news, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what the landscape looks like already – if you haven’t, you will quickly begin to fill in the gaps. With further layoffs, fluctuating stock prices, saturation, and the drop off of AI hype, it’s evident that the job market hasn’t bounced back to its mighty peak of 2022.
