Last week Salesforce.com (SFDC) hosted its annual Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco, and for the first time, the cloud giant's products could soon have some major implications in the governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) market.
Amidst the chaos of keynotes, partner sessions, guest speakers like Hilary Clinton, wil.i.am, Al Gore, and our very own George Colony, two of SFDC's major announcements demonstrated how its new offerings and future strategy will position the company to compete in the very big business intelligence market:
- SFDC plans to grow from $5.4 billion to $20 billion by competing more directly with BI vendors like SAP.
- SFDC announced its "Wave" Analytics Cloud offering, which helps deliver dashboards and analytics from any data source in its platform.
Implications For GRC
So why are these announcements relevant for GRC? Three reasons:
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