Salesforce acquires field-service company ClickSoftware for $1.35 billion

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The deal could help Salesforce compete with Microsoft, whichacquired field service software company FieldOne in 2015.

The deal comes two months after Salesforce announced its biggest deal ever, buying data visualization software companySalesforce already offers tools for dealing with field service, which involves keeping track of employees heading out to perform maintenance for customers.

"Salesforce Field Service Lightning, built on Service Cloud, harnesses the latest in dispatching, mobile workforce empowerment and IoT technologies to empower companies to connect their entire service workforce on a single, centralized platform.

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So does that decrease this quarter's earnings by a billion from the acquisition?

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