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Fuze Nets $30 Million, Zendesk Acquires Outbound, More News
Cambridge, Mass.-based Fuze got one step closer to an IPO after closing on its latest round of venture capital this week — this time, for $30 million.
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eZ Systems Rebrands Offerings, Adobe Spark Updates, More News
Porsgrunn, Norway-based eZ Systems adopted a new motto earlier this year: simplify. The open source content management system provider has taken the motto to heart and simplified its product names for clarity. And that begins with some new names for eZ Systems. Commercial open source content management platform eZ
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Apttus Nets $88M, Pushes Machine Learning With New Intelligent Agent 'Max'
Investors have made another large bet on Apttus and its Quote-to-Cash solution — this time for $88 million. The Series D funding, announced today, brings the San Mateo, Calif.-based software provider's total funding to $274 million.
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Apttus Prepares for Public Offering, Workfront Hires CEO, More
San Mateo, Calif.-based Apttus, a quote-to-cash solution provider, has named Sydney Carey as chief financial officer to prepare for its forthcoming initial public offering. Carey brings experience with public companies and pre-IPO organizations to the role, and will report to Apttus CEO and co-founder Kirk Krappe.
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Salesforce (Finally) Commits to SteelBrick in the CPQ Space
Salesforce Ventures has invested in both Steelbrick and its main competitor over the years.
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Apttus Gets Another $108M to Grow
JMP Securities Analysts Patrick Walravens and Peter Lowry predicted Salesforce will realize 100 percent revenue growth from its partner Apttus this year. Now Salesforce itself is helping to make that prediction come true. Salesforce Ventures, Salesforce's investment arm, is taking part in another funding round today for San Mateo,
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Apttus Embraces Its Salesforce Connection #AccelerateQTC
It's no surprise that Salesforce had a prominent role at the the Apttus Accelerate 2015 conference in San Francisco this week. In February, the San Francisco-based cloud software company led a $41 million investment round for Apttus, which makes Quote-to-Cash software on the Salesforce1 platform.
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News You Can Use: NetBase, Apttus, Bynder, More
The latest in funding, quoting, enhancing, competing and updating from Saint Matthew, The Swinging City and Venice of the North, the Middle of the Mittenand Triple D. Money, Money, Money NetBase, a social media analytics company, announced today that it has completed a new round of growth funding.
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How Salesforce Builds Its Ecosystem, 1 Company at a Time
John Somorjai was the corporate counsel at Oracle 18 years ago when an opening popped up in the corporate development group. He's never looked back. Starting as a manager, he found he had a knack for spotting good companies and cutting deals.
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Salesforce Makes Another Bet on E-Commerce
Hoping to extend its presence in e-commerce, Salesforce has invested millions of dollars in SteelBrick — the cloud software giant's second bet on the fast-growing Configure Price Quote (CPQ) market this week. SteelBrick said today San Francisco-based Salesforce joined its $18 million Series B funding round, which was led by
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Salesforce Arms Apttus with $41M
When it comes to venture investments, Salesforce backs its allies. Case in point: The San Francisco-based cloud software company today led a $41 million investment round for Apttus, which makes Quote-to-Cash software on the Salesforce1 platform. The latest investment followed first-round funding of $37 million in September 2013 that
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Bing/Yahoo Tramples Google in Paid Search
Google is losing ground in the paid search market to the Yahoo/Bing partnership, according to new report by IgnitionOne (IO) a cloud-based digital marketing technology provider. The IO Q4 2014 Digital Marketing Report calls the growth in Yahoo/Bing share “historic.” It jumped to 26.3 percent of U.S.
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Don't Leave Money on the Table With Sales Slipups
Are sales inefficiencies costing your company millions? A recent survey by Apttus and Adobe found many organizations polled admit to profit-eroding problems ranging from flawed sales processes, inaccurate quotes and inexact sales forecasts.
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How 'Quote-to-Cash' Might Cause the Dinosaurs of Enterprise Software to Dance
Just how exciting can a contract management, pricing and sales quoting vendor be? Turns out it might just shake up the enterprise software industry. Software user conferences are annual homage-paying events. It doesn't matter if it’s a mega-event like Salesforce’s DreamWorld or a small vendor’s.
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