USA – Tanium, an Emeryville, Calif.-based provider of unified endpoint management and security built for demanding IT environments, signed a strategic partnership with Salesforce (CRM), supported by a new round of funding led by a strategic investment from Salesforce Ventures.
This brought the company’s valuation to $9 billion. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the partnership and strengthen its market leadership in unified endpoint management and security. Through the partnership, Salesforce will leverage the Tanium platform to help IT teams gain comprehensive visibility and control of their employees’ endpoints. Tanium’s data and unified endpoint management and security capabilities, in connection with Salesforce’s development platform, workflow capabilities, and third-party ecosystem, will support a new way of delivering employee service management in an increasingly remote-working world. Using Tanium, joint customers will have the ability to: – Reliably manage IT assets – Proactively remediate incidents – Help IT leaders make decisions using real-time, accurate, and comprehensive endpoint data – Improve productivity for employees and help desk engineers Led by David Hindawi, Co-founder & Executive Chairman, Orion Hindawi Co-founder & Co-CEO, and Fazal Merchant, Co-CEO, Tanium offers a unified endpoint management and security platform that is built for the world’s most demanding IT environments. It is used by many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated organizations, including more than half of the Fortune 100, top retailers and financial institutions, and four branches of the US Armed Forces. 26/06/2020
