Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) is stepping in on the COVID-19 effort by adapting its software for vaccine distribution.
Work.com for Vaccines, announced earlier, will build on the already deployed Work.com to safely and efficiently manage vaccinations at scale – a key challenge ahead, CEO Marc Benioff told Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money.
Organizations are already using Work.com for manual contact tracing, emergency response management and other solutions for safe work, the company says. Now the new initiative adds a Public Health Command Center (a single dashboard for comprehensive views of the vaccine management effort), Inventory Management, Appointment Scheduling, Clinical Vaccine Administration, Outcome Monitoring and Public Health Notifications.
“States like Texas, cities like Chicago … they’re already starting to deploy our vaccination program,” Benioff says.
Cramer also asked Benioff about the company’s passive stake in Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW), and whether he was a stakeholder or just there to “ring the register.”
“Salesforce is so deeply committed to analytics,” Benioff says, pointing to the success of the Tableau acquisition and noting the digital world is all about analytics, data warehousing and automated visualization.
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