The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Today it has been announced that I'm leading a $15 million funding round in Tact, a new generation of Enterprise Software company along with other investors including Microsoft Ventures and previous investors Accel and Redpoint Rather than just waxing lyrically about how great the company is I thought I'd provide some context about why I invested and also about a fundamental change I see in the coming years in the way enterprise software is used. Tact was founded by Chuck Ganapathi, who was formerly the SVP of Products at Salesforce.com having led initiatives like their chat product, CRM and mobile. For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. But more importantly I worked with Chuck 10 years ago when I was at Salesforce.com and have kept a relationship over the past decade. Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software -- voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design.