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

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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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Salesforce.com Announces Site.com Web Site Management: Will Marketing Automation Features Follow?

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Salesforce.com yesterday announced the launch of Site.com , an enterprise-class Web site management system. The news didn’t seem to get much attention, perhaps because Salesforce.com itself pretty much buried it. The move closer as Web sites capture more individual-level information and present more personalized treatments.

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Dreamforce 2011: Salesforce.com Will Leave Marketing Automation Alone. But Revenue Performance Management Might Be Another Story.

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I spent most of this week at Salesforce.com ’s Dreamforce conference. The Chatter group that Salesforce set up for Dreamforce itself struck me as a perfect example: it was filled with largely irrelevant noise that made it nearly impossible to see the useful information.

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SAP Buys hybris e-commerce Software to Build Its Version of Real Time Customer Management

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Fresh on the heels of yesterday''s blockbuster ExactTarget / Salesforce.com deal , SAP today announced acquisition of e-commerce vendor hybris software. During their call, the SAP and hybris managers unfairly implied that ExactTarget does nothing but email (without mentioning Salesforce.com or ExactTarget by name).

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Fliptop: A Customer Data Platform for Predictive Lead Scoring, Pure and Simple

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Like all the others except ReachForce, the company builds a master database of information about businesses and individuals by scanning the social networks, company Web pages, job sites, paid search spend, search engine page rank, and other sources. This model can score new leads and classify existing opportunities in the sales pipeline.

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ICON16: How Infusionsoft Plans To Dominate Small Business Marketing (and Make Life Better For Small Businesses Everywhere)

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ThinkingChat promised "artificial intelligence lead capture agents" engage site visitors and capture contact information. On the other hand, ThinkingChat reports that it more than doubles the rate of capturing contact information on their clients’ Web sites, which is a pretty good deal for as little as $149 per month.

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SalesPredict Offers Highly Automated, Highly Flexible Predictive Modeling

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This is possible primarily because the painstaking work of preparing data for analysis – which is where model builders spend most of their time – is avoided by connecting to a few standard sources, currently Salesforce.com and Marketo with HubSpot soon to follow.