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  • Searching for the Ultimate Contact List Solution

    June 14, 2013

    Business
    Business and Economy, Contact list, Email address, Google Contacts, Jigsaw, Rapportive, Telecommunications, Telephone number
     

    I get a lot of email – hundreds of emails a day. My contact list is a mess – many thousands of contacts, many with extremely out of date information and lots of duplication, format errors and the like.…

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  • Salesforce Launches Data.com – Saves D&B to Fight Another Day

    August 31, 2011

    Business
    cloud computing, Jigsaw, Salesforce.com, Software as a Service
     

    When salesforce acquired Jigsaw a year and a half ago, I said at the time that it as the beginning of the end for traditional data service providers like D&B and Hoover’s. I foresaw a situation where, unless they…

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  • Rainmaker – Augmenting Contact Data

    June 1, 2011

    Business
    Data cleansing, Jigsaw, linkedin, rainmaker, Rapportive, Xobni Insight
     

    I’ve written before about Jigsaw, the contact aggregation and data cleansing service that is now owned by salesforce.com. While I was at Glue conference I took some time to meet with Dan Lynn, the co-founder of Rainmaker. Rainmaker is…

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  • Jigsaw Goes Native, and Freemium

    May 10, 2011

    Business
    cloud computing, Jigsaw, marketing, Salesforce.com
     

    A year or so ago when salesforce.com acquired contact data cleansing company Jigsaw, many of us saw it as a natural progression but wondered how salesforce would integrate the product into its own suite and what their approach to…

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  • CrowdFlower–and a Symbiosis of Human/Machine Input

    December 16, 2010

    Business
    Amazon Mechanical Turk, CrowdFlower, Jigsaw, Lukas Biewald
     

    Sometimes in the race towards automation, we lose sight of the fact that there’s times when, by using people, we can avoid a lot of the errors computers make.  The question to ask then is how do we make…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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