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Salesforce - why we’re truly hybrid working now

The new head of Salesforce in the UK and Ireland has laid out her view on how the company is well-placed to deal with the new world of hybrid working.

Speaking at the company’s Salesforce Live UK & Ireland event, Zora Bahrololoumi highlighted the work done by the software giant and its many customers across the region over the difficult past 18 months.

“While businesses all over the UK and Ireland have focused on surviving, technology has been evolving,” she noted, “...if we continue to lead by rethinking the possible, we can find new ways to grow as a community.”

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Salesforce has been quick to adapt to the hybrid working world, with the company announcing it will allow most of its employees to work from home permanently, even after the pandemic has officially ended.

“We really believe, and we've proven, that we can work and be successful from anywhere, Bahrololoumi noted. “we're working in a hybrid model (and) we're still navigating our way through this...we're going at a huge pace, we're adapting and we're still learning.”

Salesforce has released several major expansions to some of its key products, including a significant recent update to Work.com that supports employee well-being, along with improving and accelerating learning and career growth.

The company also recently launched its Salesforce Anywhere platform, allowing improved online collaboration between workforces looking to adapt to the new way of working. The Salesforce Anywhere app allows users to collaborate with teams, stay productive in their workflow and keep up to date on their customers from anywhere with chat, alerts, comments and video embedded directly into the Salesforce experience.

Bahrololoumi also noted how Salesforce has issued millions in grants to help small businesses across the region, with 2020 seeing 770,000 new small businesses start in the UK and Ireland alone.

She added how most customers Salesforce has spoken to had digital transformation as part of their plans before the pandemic, but these plans have now been accelerated as companies of all sizes aim to evolve and keep track with the competition.

“We didn't anticipate we'd be moving at the pace we are, but here we are,” Bahrololoumi noted.

“The values we lead by have allowed us to be successful,” she concluded, “that's allowed us to be adaptable and work with (our customers)...their success is our success.”

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07 Jul 2021

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Microsoft’s Black Friday bargains include up to £580 off Surface devices
If you’re looking to buy a Surface device, then there are a bunch of Black Friday deals now live on Microsoft’s own store, and also with partner retailers like Amazon and John Lewis.

These offers range across the board from the high-end Surface Book 3, which has reductions of up to £580 on the boil right now, through to the affordable Surface Go 2 which has still had £190 slashed off the asking price, so you can now get the version with 8GB of RAM and 128GB storage for just £339.

That’s quite a deal indeed considering that the entry-level Go 2 normally costs £399 with half that RAM and storage.

As well as all this, there are discounts on accessories at Microsoft’s online store, with up to 30% off, and price cuts on Surface hardware that Microsoft has refurbished (which includes savings of up to £180 on already cheaper prices).

These deals run through until at least December 3 – while stock lasts – or later, with one exception, the aforementioned offer on the Surface Go 2, which finishes on December 2 and is picked out below. Check out that and the other top discounts we’ve highlighted below, or head to the Microsoft store to peruse bargains on the Surface Laptop 4 (saving up to £220), or the Surface Laptop Go (again, with up to £220 off), plus the Surface Go 2 (up to 15% off).

(Not in the UK? Scroll down for deals in your region).

Surface Go 2, Intel Pentium Gold 4425Y, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD: ~~£529~~ £339 at Amazon
The Go 2 is a seriously affordable Windows tablet, and this is the model above the base version equipped with double the memory and storage. With £190 knocked off the price, it’s even more of a bargain, and this is a deal that likely won’t hang around for long.

Surface Laptop Go, Core i5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD: ~~£699~~ £499 at Amazon
In our review, we enthused that the Surface Laptop Go redefines the budget laptop, and this super-slick portable will trouble your wallet even less with this £200 discount. It’s a beefier model which avoids the slower eMMC drive on the entry-level option, and doubles up the RAM into the bargain. Microsoft also has this model on offer at £559, but Amazon’s deal is even keener than that.

Surface Laptop 4, Ryzen 5, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD: £899 ~~£699~~ at John Lewis
The Surface Laptop 4 is a superb notebook with a top-notch keyboard, among other benefits, and a £200 discount on this entry-level model – which still offers plenty of power, yet remains nicely portable – is another great bargain for Black Friday. Remember that John Lewis also provides a two-year guarantee.

Surface Book 3 15-inch, Core i7, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD: ~~£2,699~~ £2,125 at Microsoft
There are some major price cuts on the Surface Book 3 hybrid at Microsoft’s store, and one of the choicest is this Core i7 15-inch model with a whopping 32GB of system RAM, which is reduced by £574. If you need more storage, the 1TB version has been knocked down by a similar amount, but runs to a slightly pricier £2,319. Neither machine is anything like cheap, of course, but these are still serious savings.

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