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Intuit / Salesforce.com Alliance Is No April Fool's Joke

Customer Experience Matrix

Am I the only one who missed the April 1 announcement of a strategic alliance between Salesforce.com and Intuit ? Given our industry's endless nattering about whether Salesforce.com will move into marketing automation, this should have attracted more attention (or, at least, enough attention that I would hear about it sooner than I did).

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PowerViews with Andrew Gaffney: Tipping Points & Differentiators

ViewPoint

Merger & Acquisition Activity in CRM & Marketing Automation Expected to Increase. While some of these spaces are still being defined where marketing automation plays with CRM, he believes we’ll see M&A activity in 2012. And Andrew says that getting better measurement is a real competitive differentiator.

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

Customer Experience Matrix

In this case, the main technical differentiator is extreme automation: SalesPredict imports customer data, builds models, scores current records, and deploys the results with virtually no human intervention. Results appear as lists in a CRM interface or as scores on a marketing databaset. User interface is a second differentiator.

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My Take: Salesforce Acquires ExactTarget, Continues Marketing Automation Industry Consolidation

Customer Experience Matrix

I''ve been in meetings all day and just emerged to hear that Salesforce.com purchased ExactTarget. Frankly, of the two, entry into B2C marketing seems more important because it''s such a large business and Salesforce.com needs to know where its next several billion dollars in revenue will come from. -

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Salesforce Reports Strong Growth in Commerce Cloud Sales

Valasys

On the 25th of August 2020, the leading provider of cloud-based e-commerce, CRM, and other popular business software solutions, Salesforce revealed that their revenue from Marketing and Commerce Cloud software increased by 21% for the second quarter of the fiscal that ended on July 31. billion in the first half of the fiscal.

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How to take a contacts-only approach to CRM

Capstone Insights

How do you actually mechanize a contacts-only approach to CRM? Ideally, it’s from the start on the first day you activate your CRM. of us, don’t have an opportunity to set up a new CRM from scratch without legacy data. Most of us, all right, pretty much 99.8% They will put this post in context. However, for some of you it isn’t.

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Reborn AutoPilot Aims to Simplify Multi-Channel Marketing

Customer Experience Matrix

These include Salesforce.com for CRM, InsideView and FullContact for data enhancement, Twilio for text messaging, Lob for postcards, Segment for event tracking, and GoodData for reporting. But from Autopilot’s own perspective, its real differentiator is simplicity. The difference is in the details.