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Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Salesforce Q2 Fiscal Year 2020 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.

Following management’s prepared remarks, we will host a question-and-answer session and our instructions will follow at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded for replay purposes.

pleasure the my Mr. over is it to conference hand to Now, Cummings, Relations. Investor Vice John President, Senior Sir, begin. you may

John Cummings

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Keith Block

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I'll now, off hand to this Mark Hawkins. And

Mark Hawkins

Keith. thanks, Well,

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Operator

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Mark Murphy

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Marc Benioff

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Operator

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Heather Bellini

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Marc Benioff

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Operator

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Kash Rangan

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Bret Taylor

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Kirk Materne

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Jennifer Lowe

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Operator

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Marc Benioff

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John Cummings

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Operator

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Salesforce (CRM) 22 Aug 192020 Q2 Earnings call transcript