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Salesforce announced that the company will change its legal name from salesforce.com, inc. to Salesforce, Inc. This name change is effective April 4, 2022. Salesforce common stock shares will continue to trade on the NYSE as CRM and under the same CUSIP/ISIN number.

During a sales kick off, Salesforce told employees that the company is working on NFT Cloud. NFT stands for non-fungible tokens. They are unique digitals assets that stored using blockchain technology.

Salesforce announced Safety Cloud to help people get together safely. Safety Cloud helps businesses and communities better manage testing, health and entry protocols to create safer in-person experiences at events and in the workplace.

After the deadline of the Multi-Factor Authentication requirement, Salesforce will progressively start to enforce MFA by making it a part of the login process and removing the option for admins to disable it. Dates for the auto-enablement and enforcement of MFA will vary by the product.

All the internal users that are logging in to Salesforce through the user interface must use MFA for every login. There are a few verification methods that satisfy MFA requirements. Salesforce Authenticator is the most popular and most recommended one.

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is a powerful and secure authentication method to force the users provide multiple security factors in order to prove their identities when they login to the system.

Data Loader is a tool to export, import, update, upsert, or delete data in Salesforce. Many users with correct permissions use this tool on a daily basis. However, Salesforce Data Loader utilizes Apache Log4j, which makes it vulnerable to Log4Shell.

Salesforce renamed the existing Architect certifications. The reason is just to better distinguish between Salesforce Architects and Designers.

Product roadmaps is a tool that lets you find the upcoming features across Salesforce products. It can be found on the Architect website.

Gartner Inc. has named Salesforce as a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) Application Suites of 2021.