Salesforce Wear to bring wearables, cloud-based CRM together

Salesforce took the wraps off its wearables play Tuesday with Salesforce Wearables, a software development pack for the Salesforce1 platform that the company said can help connect IP-enabled devices to business processes. Salesforce said the platform will help businesses provide better customer service, improve product tailoring and critically, monetize Internet of Things devices.With the dramatic explosion in wearable IP-connected devices forecast over the next few years (according to IHS, 50 million will be sold this year alone) Salesforce announced Salesforce Wear, a programme to help software and wearable device makers link their offerings with the Salesforce platform.