Ex-Microsoft Exec Bob Stutz is Joining Salesforce.com | Re/code

tbd if it's a scouting mission...

"Stutz will be joining Salesforce as its chief analytics officer, reporting to President of Products Alex Dayon. “Bob not only has deep enterprise software experience, he’s also a proven leader who’ll drive the vision and execution for the Analytics Cloud as we build it into a billion-dollar business for Salesforce,” Dayon said.

[...]  Stutz is an ex-Army intelligence specialist who landed at Microsoft in 2012. He spent seven years as a group VP at Siebel Systems, a CRM software outfit, ending in 2005 after it was acquired by Oracle. He then spent five years at SAP as an executive VP in its industry solutions group, and then 16 months at Hewlett-Packard."

Ex-Microsoft Exec Bob Stutz is Joining Salesforce.com | Re/code