Salesforce.com Will ‘Open The Door’ For Customer Success Startups Like Gainsight


Gainsight is a company that fights churn. It does that by helping its clients like Adobe, Box and EMC keep tabs on their own existing customers. Know how happy a company is with your software and you...

Helping Sell Ice to Eskimos – Salesfusion Raises Series B


In the old days marketing consisted of taking out an advertisement in a newspaper or on the wireless. Oh for those simple times. We now have a massively complex set of tools aimed at automating...

Wearables And Marketing IPOs: Why A Top Forrester Analyst Jumped Ship For StrongView


When Oracle shelled out $1.5 billion for cross-channel marketer Responsys last month, it seemed a clear response to Salesforce.com’s own $2.5 billion ExactTarget acquisition in June, but I called up...
    






With $1.5B Responsys Buy, Oracle Aims Right At Adobe, Salesforce In War For Cloud


On Thursday, Oracle announced positive quarterly earnings results that beat Wall Street estimates. The next day, it declared war. Oracle’s announcement Friday that it’s acquiring cross-channel...