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Data.com Is Just a Big Nothing
So last year Salesforce bought Jigsaw, a cloud-based crowd-sourced data tracking service. Now they are trying to put a pretty face to the whole thing with this week's announcement of Data.com.
How Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM Fits Into the New World of Messaging Platforms
Salesorce.com acquired Jigsaw earlier this year. This past week, Salesforce.com unveiled the integration.
The service integrates Chatter, the Salesforce.com microblogging platform. When a contact is updated through Jigsaw, the subscriber gets an update in their Chatter feed.
Jigsaw for Salesforce CRM is an example of how microblogging services are becoming message platforms for crowdsourcing tools. Microblogging tools are serving as social middleware technologies that surface information from enterprise applications.
SuccessFactors: Another SaaS Player With the Wind at its Back
It's a lot more fun when the winds are blowing your way. You get that feeling when you go to a SaaS users conference like the one today for SuccessFactors.
SuccessFactors is a company that has established its own pillar in the enterprise. Just as Salesforce.com established its pillar for the sales world, SuccessFactors is establishing itself as a pillar in the world of employee productivity, with human resources as the anchor for its expansion.
Salesforce Puts Jigsaw Together
Customer relationship management software company Salesforce has bought Jigsaw, according to an announcement from the company. The San Mateo, CA-based Jigsaw is a crowd-sourced business contact data outfit.
Salesforce delivers its information via cloud computing, as does Jigsaw, so their models match up.
Gritty Entrepreneurs: Jigsaw, a Profitable Web 2.0 Venture
To kick off our new Gritty Entrepreneurs interview series, at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York we sat down with Jim Fowler, the Founder and CEO of Jigsaw, a business information and networking service that we noted in our recent review was a complement to LinkedIn rather than a competitor. As we sat sipping espresso in the Starbucks in the lobby, the CNN screen above us told of market mayhem. Ho hum, just another day in the life of a gritty entrepreneur. Let's find out how this particular web 2.0 company is competing in this climate...
Web 2.0 Gritty Entrepreneurs
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Times are now tougher. Which makes most people head home. The half-hearted entrepreneurs, the wannabes who thought it was going to be easy, the folks with connections to VCs who could get a $5m Series A for a copycat app. Who will be left? The gritty entrepreneur of the old school who knows that it is really, really tough to build a great company. At ReadWriteWeb we celebrate these gritty entrepreneurs and in a series kicking off today we will be writing about them - and for them.
Jigsaw: Alternative or Complement to LinkedIn?
I am a regular user of LinkedIn, using it both for biz dev and recruiting. I am a fan of the service, but still a bit of a skeptic on the business model. I decided to look at alternatives and the one that gave some use was Jigsaw. According to RWW Companies, Jigsaw is "a provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages user-generated content contributed by its global membership." It claims to have 500,000 members and more than 500 enterprises using the product.
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