Salesforce

Salesforce is the world’s No. 1 seller of customer relationship management (CRM) software. Its applications help revenue teams manage data for their sales, customer service and marketing efforts.  

What is Salesforce?

For marketers and marketing technology professionals, the most familiar Salesforce applications include Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Customer Engagement and Customer Data Platform.

These applications help identify prospects and customers to target with campaigns and help marketers conduct outreach and track the results. Because Salesforce applications are popular with sales teams, many marketing organizations use Salesforce applications for customer support and marketing in order to maintain consistency and make integrations easier. 

Why we care about Salesforce

Salesforce is a dominant vendor in the martech and sales tech landscape. Thousands of applications are built on the Salesforce platform by independent software vendors and are available through its AppExchange marketplace.

Countless martech and revenue operations professionals build a career around being a Salesforce administrator. The company’s Trailblazer community provides education for Salesforce administrators, developers and users. And its Dreamforce event attracts thousands of users and partners annually, making it one of the largest gatherings in the industry. 

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MarTech Today: Nielsen adds multi-touch attribution provider Visual IQ, Taboola adds a third-party data marketplace & Salesforce opens up its second-party Data Studio

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: Nielsen buys multitouch attribution provider Visual IQ Sep 27, 2017 by Barry Levine The new purchase improves Nielsen’s ability to handle large datasets and offers new data from advertisers, publishers and […]

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MarTech Today: RevJet’s ‘creative operating system,’ Salesforce enhances Sales Cloud & futuristic ad channels

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: RevJet launches a ‘creative operating system’ with point solutions as installable apps Sep 19, 2017 by Barry Levine The company says that the browser-based Orora and its AppXchange, for desktop […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce’s ‘State of Marketing’ report, Pega’s Unified DMP & AMP for WordPress

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: Salesforce’s ‘State of Marketing’ Report: Customer experience takes center stage Jun 16, 2017 by Barry Levine This 4th annual survey also shows AI as a leading tech because it can improve […]

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MarTech Today: TurnTo’s ‘first open network’ for brand reviews, Salesforce’s new Partner application & rethinking data management

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: TurnTo Networks enters review syndication with ‘first open network’ May 31, 2017 by Barry Levine Its Open Review Syndication network is designed to lower the barriers for brands to distribute user […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce smartens Commerce Cloud, Skimlinks gets more granular & Google I/O roundup

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: Salesforce makes Einstein a bit smarter in its Commerce Cloud May 17, 2017 by Barry Levine The company has enhanced its customer-based Predictive Sorting, plus updated Order Management to better support […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce’s Einstein adds velocity, trends in voice search and AI, & Android takes first place

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: Salesforce’s Einstein adds velocity to its Sales Cloud Apr 4, 2017 by Barry Levine The CRM-based company boosts features to help salespeople close deals — including on-board predictive scoring. Voice search […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce integrates Krux, Demandbase’s survey on AI in marketing & Amazon’s first drone delivery

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: Salesforce moves beyond first-party data with Krux integration Dec 15, 2016 by Barry Levine CRM/marketing giant unveils several new features for its Marketing Cloud that incorporate its recent purchase of the […]

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MarTech Today: Conductor’s Insight Stream, the hottest martech tools & a conversation with Salesforce VP Leslie Fine

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech Today, MarTech and other places across the web. From MarTech Today: Conductor adds Insight Stream to its Searchlight platform Oct 24, 2016 by Barry Levine The new insight engine culls recommended actions from the platform’s streams of data, part of a marketing […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce buys Krux, featured snippets & a new kind of ‘augmented reality’

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Salesforce buys DMP Krux Oct 4, 2016 by Barry Levine The company’s latest acquisition brings in-house the data needed to conduct large-scale audience segmentation and targeting. Google Home responding with featured snippets […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce’s Commerce Cloud, Google AMP bug & newest Google My Business API

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Salesforce launches its Commerce Cloud Sep 27, 2016 by Barry Levine The newest cloud, based on the recent Demandware acquisition, positions the tech giant for handling transactions in physical stores as well […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce’s Einstein, chatbot authoring tools & top SEO platforms

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Salesforce introduces Einstein — an AI layer for all its clouds Sep 19, 2016 by Barry Levine The company is going beyond its previous integrations of computer intelligence, making embedded predictive and […]

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MarTech Today: Marketo adds native ABM, AdBlock Plus’ new ad exchange & Salesforce’s new portal templates

Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Marketo adds native ABM capabilities to its platform Sep 13, 2016 by Barry Levine The company says the new account-oriented offerings are the most complete native functions by any major marketing platform. […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce boosts Wave Analytics Cloud, Apple purges apps & automated insights for Google Analytics App

Here’s our recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Salesforce boosts its Wave Analytics Cloud with new applications Sep 2, 2016 by Barry Levine The updates, from the company and ISVs, increase the utility of data from Salesforce and external sources. Apple […]

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MarTech Today: Salesforce’s evolution, Placed’s enticement & the event marketing data problem

Here’s our recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on MarTech and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Next stop in Salesforce’s evolution: Becoming the platform for customer experience Aug 19, 2016 by Barry Levine A Salesforce exec points out how the Demandware acquisition and all those clouds can fit together. […]