http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2010/04/21/salesforce-enters-data-services-market/ Jeff Nolan's take on investment, innovation, entrepreneurship and the technology industry Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:44:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2010/04/21/salesforce-enters-data-services-market/comment-page-1/#comment-339092 Wiring the Web StockTwits Tech Blog Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:04:45 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2010/04/21/salesforce-enters-data-services-market/#comment-339092 [...] We’ve also seen the less-covered but very strategic acquisition of Jigsaw by Salesforce.com ($CRM) – allowing Jigsaw’s crowdsourced contact data services to be directly integrated into Salesforce’s cloud-based applications and Force.com platform.  The capability to integrate data into Salesforce and other sales/CRM tools is not necessarily new (Jigsaw and competitors including OneSource ($IUSA) and Hoovers ($DNB) have been part of Salesforce’s AppExchange for quite some time) but the acquisition gives Salesforce the ability to tie the services even more closely together and create some new productized offerings that are a no-brainer upsell for their customers.   Those wondering what Salesforce would be doing with the $500M they raised earlier this year now have their answer – and AppExchange should provide plenty of candidates for the company’s acquisition machine.  Fellow Enterprise Irregular Jeff Nolan wrote a great post on Salesforce’s acquisition earlier this week. [...] [...] We’ve also seen the less-covered but very strategic acquisition of Jigsaw by Salesforce.com ($CRM) – allowing Jigsaw’s crowdsourced contact data services to be directly integrated into Salesforce’s cloud-based applications and Force.com platform.  The capability to integrate data into Salesforce and other sales/CRM tools is not necessarily new (Jigsaw and competitors including OneSource ($IUSA) and Hoovers ($DNB) have been part of Salesforce’s AppExchange for quite some time) but the acquisition gives Salesforce the ability to tie the services even more closely together and create some new productized offerings that are a no-brainer upsell for their customers.   Those wondering what Salesforce would be doing with the $500M they raised earlier this year now have their answer – and AppExchange should provide plenty of candidates for the company’s acquisition machine.  Fellow Enterprise Irregular Jeff Nolan wrote a great post on Salesforce’s acquisition earlier this week. [...]

]]> http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2010/04/21/salesforce-enters-data-services-market/comment-page-1/#comment-339090 Wiring the Web | Selland Capital Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:58:30 +0000 http://jeffnolan.com/wp/2010/04/21/salesforce-enters-data-services-market/#comment-339090 [...] We’ve also seen the less-covered but very strategic acquisition of Jigsaw by Salesforce.com – allowing Jigsaw’s crowdsourced contact data services to be directly integrated into Salesforce’s cloud-based applications and Force.com platform.  The capability to integrate data into Salesforce and other sales/CRM tools is not necessarily new (Jigsaw and competitors including OneSource and Hoovers have been part of Salesforce’s AppExchange for quite some time) but the acquisition gives Salesforce the ability to tie the services even more closely together and create some new productized offerings that are a no-brainer upsell for their customers.   Those wondering what Salesforce would be doing with the $500M they raised earlier this year now have their answer – and AppExchange should provide plenty of candidates for the company’s acquisition machine.  Fellow Enterprise Irregular Jeff Nolan wrote a great post on Salesforce’s acquisition earlier this week. [...] [...] We’ve also seen the less-covered but very strategic acquisition of Jigsaw by Salesforce.com – allowing Jigsaw’s crowdsourced contact data services to be directly integrated into Salesforce’s cloud-based applications and Force.com platform.  The capability to integrate data into Salesforce and other sales/CRM tools is not necessarily new (Jigsaw and competitors including OneSource and Hoovers have been part of Salesforce’s AppExchange for quite some time) but the acquisition gives Salesforce the ability to tie the services even more closely together and create some new productized offerings that are a no-brainer upsell for their customers.   Those wondering what Salesforce would be doing with the $500M they raised earlier this year now have their answer – and AppExchange should provide plenty of candidates for the company’s acquisition machine.  Fellow Enterprise Irregular Jeff Nolan wrote a great post on Salesforce’s acquisition earlier this week. [...]

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