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BWhatt's avatar

"Salesforce...because all businesses are kind of the same, and so is information management." That's a shallow person's dim view of the details of business. I've long been skeptical of anybody who would recommend Salesforce (except for salespeople, a class of people for whom I have great forgiveness).

And I claim this: I personally decreed and initiated the phase-out of Lotus Notes in a large enterprise. For years prior, we'd ask, "Why did we do it that way?" And the answer was, "Because we use Lotus Notes." Notes was like being locked into an engineering nether world. It took years to untether from that quirk-ridden beast.

And AI, because even machines can now mimic the depth of lazy human thinking. "I think it's true...I read it on the internet."

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Michael David Cobb Bowen's avatar

I have personally heard my boss's boss tell the room: "If it's not in Salesforce, it didn't happen." I really had to quit that job.

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Winkfield Twyman's avatar

Loved the Star Trek episode. You're going to have a lot of material to work with over the coming five years, I suspect.

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