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Microsoft Buys LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion: Get Ready for Software Vendors as Data Owners

Customer Experience Matrix

This is fascinating since Microsoft intersects with LinkedIn in several areas: Dynamics CRM software, Office productivity software, and Bing online advertising. Done correctly, integration of LinkedIn with Dynamics CRM could provide a major boost to that product’s utility while creating a new barrier to competition.

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Demand Generation Vendors Offer Few Social Media Applications

Customer Experience Matrix

CRM vendor RightNow offers something similar under the label of Cloud Links. - These can be loaded into sales and CRM systems to make them easily accessible. InsideView is already integrated with major CRM vendors and with the Marketbright demand generation system. add social media data to prospect profiles.

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Most Exciting Marketing Technologies to Adopt in 2017

Leadspace

The real-time CRM and Marketing Automation data vendors (including Leadspace) should have another big year based on the growing acknowledgement that this type of service dramatically enhances the performance of these massive CRM and MA investments companies have made. It’s beautiful when it’s that simple, and this one is.

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Marketo Sales Insight Expands Salesforce Access to Marketing Data

Customer Experience Matrix

Marketo today officially launched “Sales Insight”, an application that makes prospect activity history directly available to sales people from within Salesforce.com. This can be integrated with Demandbase and Jigsaw to download the names of contacts at those firms. An average Salesforce.com seat is around $100 per month these days.

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Lessons for Sales and Marketing from Cloudforce San Jose

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Yesterday, over 1,000 people came together in San Jose (plus 10K more on a live video feed) for the launch of Chatter at a Salesforce.com Cloudforce event. Marc Benioff, Chairman & CEO of Salesforce.com, set the stage with a video explaining how the world now majorly communicates using social media. The Internet took 4 years.

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Marketing Automation System Trends: What We Found in the Raab Guide

Customer Experience Matrix

This contrasts with traditional demand generation pricing on database size and/or activity volume, but is the way sales automation systems like Salesforce.com are usually sold. Even though the modules clearly trespasses on the CRM vendors turf – inviting a potentially devastating counter-invasion – the opportunity seems irresistible.

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2010 Will Bring New Features to Demand Generation Systems

Customer Experience Matrix

On the other hand, there are still plenty of new entrants; few pioneering vendors have failed or consolidated; and related software vendors (in this case, CRM, email and Web site management systems) haven’t yet introduced me-too products. So much for the rear view mirror. me-too products. external data.