Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 4, 2013

Author: Phil Fernandez Today, Salesforce.com announced plans to buy ExactTarget. This is the future, and it’s why we are proud to be the leading independent marketing software company today working with ALL leading CRM solutions, including salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, Netsuite, and SugarCRM.

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Biznology

JANUARY 23, 2013

Internal databases populated from billing systems, lead management systems, and website registration systems. LevelEleven provides a cloud-based platform where sales managers can create fresh and compelling sales contests within Salesforce.com. How LevelEleven took its prospecting to the next level.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 30, 2009

David is the author of the new Prentice-Hall book, " Salesforce.com Secrets of Success ," which covers the people, policy, and process issues surrounding effective CRM solutions. But busy-ness doesn't lead to business: the fact you had 150,000 "impressions" this month doesn't help any sales rep make his number. Average time to convert.

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ANNUITAS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Observation 1: Salesforce.com is not going to acquire a Marketing Automation Vendor anytime soon. While many were eagerly awaiting an acquisition announcement during the keynotes, nothing of consequence was announced. As he has the last few years, Marc Benioff focused on Salesforce.com’s social capabilities.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2008

For example, Ken points out that both salesforce.com and Netsuite took over $100M in venture capital before going public. However, one trap that companies run into is investing in marketing automation that is not as fast, nimble or flexible as tools like salesforce.com or WebEx.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JANUARY 4, 2012

This would translate to around $7 million revenue, for a price of just over 1x revenue, compared with 4 to 5x revenue in other recent acquisitions. Callidus isn’t a sales automation system like Salesforce.com , but it does provide a range of other systems that help sales departments. This is why Callidus is a good buyer.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

The lead management automation market, about which I blogged previously , continues to attract new players at a rapid rate. The main problems targeted are keeping the pipeline full of marketing-qualified leads and automating the process of nurturing demand not yet ready to buy.

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