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Salesforce Shifts Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure in Surprise Partnership

Salesforce moves its Marketing Cloud infrastructure to Microsoft Azure while integrating Teams with its CRM platforms. The deal highlights how enterprise giants set aside rivalries to collaborate in the modern cloud era.

14 Nov 2019 • 1 min read

Salesforce announces a major shift by moving its Marketing Cloud from its own data centers to Microsoft Azure in the coming months. The two companies also integrate Microsoft Teams directly with Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud. This unexpected partnership demonstrates how modern enterprise software giants navigate complex, overlapping relationships.

This migration represents a significant win for Microsoft as it competes fiercely with AWS for cloud market dominance. Analyst Brent Leary notes that Salesforce chooses to deepen its ties with Microsoft over Amazon, showing that Microsoft prioritizes Azure growth over protecting its own Dynamics 365 CRM tool. The deal signals a strategic willingness by Microsoft to partner broadly to achieve its core business goals.

The complex history between Salesforce and Microsoft evolves from the era of dueling lawsuits under Steve Ballmer to a renewed friendship under Satya Nadella. This Azure deal follows a separate Salesforce partnership with AWS announced just yesterday regarding the Cloud Information Model. These seemingly conflicting agreements illustrate that tech competitors still collaborate seamlessly when mutual benefits exist in today's interconnected cloud landscape.

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