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Salesforces annual gene fourth conference kicks off today just a few blocks from here in san francisco. Byy open up the summit introducing a new cloud for the internet of things. This way for customers to make sense of all the data coming in from different kinds of devices. Joining me now to discuss all things dream force, executive Vice President at microsoft. And our Senior Analyst for bloomberg intelligence. Cloud . You think of this deal for anyg company right now. Predictive analytics is becoming the way you went to differentiate your offering. Almost every software companies. Etting into...

Within departments and we have to or in many instances individuals need to hire permit expediters to get projects through faster compared to other projects which arent moving quite as fast. But on the other hand we all know that there have been numerous allegations and investigations of whether there have been individuals who have inappropriately influenced the process and no one understands who is actually influencing the process. And from my perspective, the purpose of this legislation really actually is to legitimatize transparent permit expediting. Let me be clear on several points. First ...

Permit. Thats why people come to dpi. They get lost in there trying to get from one place to another. So, it really what conceptual consultants is to be able to navigate, to get a permit quicker because they know who to go to see, what to say with their with the drawings, sometimes the drawings arent correct. You have to go back and [speaker not understood], so forth. Bottom line, though, bottom line, permit consult atctiontion ~ consultants are not lobbyists. They do not deal with elected officials nor appointed officials. So, i urge you to really reconsider the way the legislation is written...

Should not happen. All were saying is that we need some transparency about who is involved. And then we made major amendments in the last couple of months to address the concerns about overly onerous reporting requirements. So, rather than having a monthly requirement we now have a quarterly requirement and it used to be in the original version of the legislation that we required every contact with the city staffer involving the permit expediter to be disclosed and now all were saying is you dont have to indicate every time you interact with the city staff, we just want to know what city staff...

I have been looking for feedback on specific suggestions on what we could do it around this ~ and the challenge we have is on the one hand we know there is a lot of frustration with the process within departments and we have to or in many instances individuals need to hire permit expediters to get projects through faster compared to other projects which arent moving quite as fast. But on the other hand we all know that there have been numerous allegations and investigations of whether there have been individuals who have inappropriately influenced the process and no one understands who is actu...