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At Salesforce, Arundhati Bhattacharya bullish on new tech, demand

Currently, Salesforce has offices in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Gurugram and Mumbai with more than 2,500 employees

Arundhati Bhattacharya. (Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)
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Salesforce is among the first global employers to take the no-layoff pledge owing to Covid-19 crisis. (Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)

Debasis MohapatraBibhu Ranjan Mishra Bengaluru
Former SBI chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya (pictured) joined Salesforce to head its India unit at a time when the firm was facing multiple challenges.
 
On April 1, when she took over as chairman and CEO of the US-based software major, the country was under a lockdown. Business sentiment, too, was quite low. A couple of months later, she is now more optimistic than before regarding the adoption of newer technologies, even though she acknowledges there could be short-term challenges owing to the pandemic.
 
“In the short term, it is going to be challenging (due to the pandemic). However, the