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Email Templates in Marketing Cloud

Take your email marketing endeavors to new and amazing heights with Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC), leveraging the prowess of AI-driven personalization and streamlined campaign management. Email Templates in Marketing Cloud are a great tool. Salesforce Marketing Cloud empowers you to seamlessly integrate all your campaigns, from transactional to promotional messages, while efficiently managing your email sender score. With SFMC’s consolidated platform, you can effortlessly select the perfect content for each customer from a centralized library, ensuring a tailored and captivating experience. If you’re new to constructing Marketing Cloud Email templates, don’t worry! Free online resources are available to guide you through the process. Dive into the art of building reusable email templates in Salesforce Marketing Cloud with this comprehensive step-by-step insight: In the space of email marketing, timing is crucial, and SFMC understands this reality and aids you in getting the timing right. Whether it’s sending a timely thank-you note or a birthday greeting, SFMC equips email marketers with the necessary tools to respond promptly and efficiently to their subscribers’ needs. One such tool is the creation of reusable email templates, streamlining the process of crafting personalized and captivating email campaigns. Introduction to Salesforce Email Templates in Marketing Cloud A Salesforce email template serves as a structured foundation for email communications, providing email marketers with a canvas to build upon and personalize. These templates can be customized with brand elements, contact details, and content blocks, facilitating the creation of consistent and visually appealing emails. When digging into the creation of reusable email templates in SFMC, it’s beneficial to visualize the design in three separate layers: Creating Reusable Content Blocks in SFMC Email Studio and Content Builder Before diving into email template construction, it’s crucial to understand the creation of reusable content blocks in SFMC: Creating a Reusable Email Template in SFMC Content Builder: To craft a reusable email template in SFMC Content Builder, adhere to these steps: Modifying a Reusable Email Template in SFMC Content Builder To tweak an existing template: Creating an Email from a Salesforce HTML Email Template in SFMC Content Builder: To generate an email from a template: Saving an Existing Email Message as a Reusable Email Template in SFMC Content Builder Sometimes an email performs so well you want to save it as a reusable template. To preserve an existing email as a template: Mastering email template creation in Salesforce Marketing Cloud is pivotal for efficient and effective email marketing campaigns. By following this insight, you’ll be armed with the knowledge and tools to fashion compelling email templates that foster engagement and yield tangible results. By Tectonic’s Salesforce Marketing Solutions Architect Shannan Hearne Learn about Tectonic’s Marketing Cloud Salesforce Implementation Solutions. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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Salesforce Takes Beyond Inc Beyond Personalized Shopping Experiences

Beyond, Inc., the parent company of renowned e-commerce brands such as Bed Bath and Beyond, Overstock, and Zulily, has unveiled an expanded commitment to leveraging Salesforce’s cutting-edge data and marketing solutions. Beyond Inc leverages Salesforce is to foster customer loyalty and deliver deeply personalized shopping experiences across all its brand portfolios. Beyond will now utilize Salesforce Data Cloud, powered by the Einstein 1 Platform, to unify customer data across multiple brands and enterprise data systems. This unified data will provide invaluable insights into customer behavior, preferences, and engagement patterns across Beyond’s diverse brand ecosystem. Marcus Lemonis, Executive Chairman of the Beyond, Inc. Board of Directors, underscored the company’s commitment to revolutionizing its approach to customer data management, emphasizing the importance of adopting a profit-oriented mindset and investing in customers who demonstrate a propensity for repeat purchases and loyalty. Lemonis previously implemented Salesforce solutions at Camping World Holdings. Lemonis is also the host of CNBC’s The Profit. Beyond Inc Leverages Salesforce Carlisha Robinson, Chief Customer Officer at Beyond, hailed the collaboration with Salesforce as a pivotal moment ushering in a new era of growth for the company. She emphasized the pivotal role of digital technologies in driving Beyond’s growth agenda, highlighting the company’s strategic utilization of the Einstein 1 Platform to unlock the full potential of AI and data-driven insights. Through this expanded collaboration, Beyond aims to execute personalized journeys using Salesforce Marketing Cloud, thereby increasing customer loyalty and spend across its brands. Ariel Kelman, Chief Marketing Officer at Salesforce, lauded Beyond’s adoption of Salesforce’s AI, Data Cloud, and integration technologies as instrumental in fostering deeply engaging and personalized interactions with customers. Kelman emphasized that providing personalized experiences is paramount in today’s customer-connected world, and Beyond’s initiatives will help drive revenue growth and enhance customer relationships in a whole new way. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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New Marketing Cloud Login

New login process for Salesforce Help On 5/3 Salesforce Help will support the Trailblazer account login for all Marketing Cloud customers. With this update, the current login experience for Marketing Cloud customers will be deprecated.  New Marketing Cloud Login The Trailblazer account unites your experience with SSO across more than 30 Salesforce digital properties. By logging into Salesforce Help with your Trailblazer account, you have a simplified way to create and manage open cases regardless of what Salesforce products you use. Follow these steps to prepare your Trailblazer account and log in to the Salesforce Help portal. This improved log in experience for Marketing Cloud users is a time saver you will really enjoy! From getting started to realizing value to resolving issues, Salesforce Help has the support resources you need to achieve success now. Trailblazer Account Setup for Salesforce Help Page Option 1: Use your Existing Trailblazer Account to Connect your Marketing Cloud accountIf you already use Salesforce Help for product support or Trailhead, you already have a Trailblazer profile, and there is no need to set up a new Trailblazer account. Option 2: Create a Trailblazer account using your Marketing Cloud accountIf you don’t have a Trailblazer account, you can create a Trailblazer account by using your Marketing Cloud account: Salesforce Help Portal Logging in to Salesforce Help using your Trailblazer accountSigning up or logging in to Trailblazer account with an email address means that you never set a password. Instead, you verify your identity with a single-use code sent to your email address. Let’s walk through the steps for using a single-use code. Notes: To keep your account secure, Trailblazer prompts you to verify any unverified email addresses or socials. If you see a prompt to verify them when logging in, or from your Trailblazer.me account settings page, there are some possible reasons. How to submit a Support Case on the Salesforce Help Portal Note: If you logged into Salesforce Help directly, you may be asked to manually input your Marketing Cloud account’s MID. Follow these steps to locate your Marketing Cloud account MID: Tip: If you navigate to Salesforce Help from within your Marketing Cloud account, your Marketing Cloud account MID will automatically be populated within the case submission form. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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Why Use Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect

Mobile Marketing Strategy

In today’s multitasking digital landscape, customers are constantly engaged in various activities like texting, searching with Google, browsing social media, and ordering lunch, all on the same screen. Their usage requires you to develop a Mobile Marketing Strategy. To effectively reach these customers, mobile marketing must seamlessly integrate into their current mobile experience. This requires a unified platform that aligns with their digital habits. According to the Insider Intelligence 2023 Research, email remains the most preferred communication method among customers, with a whopping 93% preference rate. However, customer preferences vary significantly across different channels, presenting a challenge for marketers who need to choose the right channels for each context. To deliver the best customer experience, marketers need to bring together multiple channels by adhering to changing data sources and evolving customer expectations. As data sources for targeting shift towards digital identities and declared preferences, marketers must adapt their strategies accordingly. Here are guiding principles for an effective mobile marketing strategy: Understanding Mobile Channels: Push Notifications: SMS Messaging: Chat Apps: Key Takeaways: Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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Predictive Lead Scoring

Predictive Lead Scoring

Traditional lead scoring relies on predefined criteria and subjective assumptions, whereas predictive lead scoring (PLS) harnesses machine learning algorithms to analyze extensive data and identify key predictors of lead quality. Traditional lead scoring only learns from data if you revise your scoring methodology for it. Predictive lead scoring constantly reworks the machine learning model based on more and newer data. Traditional lead scoring can be impacted by human error and bias. PLS analyzes from historical data eliminating bias and error. PLS employs a machine learning model to assign scores to open leads based on historical data, enabling sales teams to prioritize effectively and improve lead qualification rates while reducing the time spent on lead qualification. Discover how AI can elevate PLS to new heights and transform various organizational functions amidst shrinking budgets and heightened performance expectations across sales and marketing teams. Key Benefits of Predictive Lead Scoring: PLS leverages data science and machine learning to analyze and predict future outcomes based on historical and current data, guiding businesses in identifying high-potential leads and optimizing resource allocation. Implementing Predictive Lead Scoring: AI CRM and PLS: AI-enabled CRM platforms like Salesforce’s Einstein Lead Scoring automate lead scoring processes, leveraging extensive data to predict lead quality and prioritize effectively for sales and marketing teams. Benefits of Predictive Lead Scoring: AI and Machine Learning in Lead Scoring: AI and machine learning enhance lead scoring by analyzing vast data sets, identifying patterns, and predicting behaviors for more accurate lead qualification and prioritization. A data-driven enterprise is a smarter enterprise acting on data and insights. Salesforce’s Intelligent Lead Scoring: Salesforce’s Einstein Lead Scoring automates lead scoring processes within Sales Cloud and Marketing Cloud, providing tailored metrics and insights for informed decision-making. Generative AI and Predictive Lead Scoring: Generative AI streamlines processes like email personalization and content creation, enhancing marketing effectiveness and productivity. Good PLS with AI and machine learning transforms lead management by leveraging data insights for efficient and accurate lead qualification, ultimately driving improved sales and marketing performance. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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Data Cloud and Snowflake Bidrectional Data Sharing

Data Cloud and Snowflake Bidrectional Data Sharing

Salesforce Data Cloud and Snowflake are excited to announce that bidirectional data sharing between Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, and Salesforce Data Cloud is now generally available. In September, we introduced the ability for organizations to leverage Salesforce data directly in Snowflake via zero-ETL data sharing, enabling unified customer and business data, accelerating decision-making, and streamlining business processes. Today, we’re thrilled to share that customers can now also share Snowflake data into the Salesforce Data Cloud, using the same zero-ETL innovation to reduce friction and quickly surface powerful insights across sales, service, marketing, and commerce applications. Data Cloud and Snowflake Bidrectional Data Sharing. Data Cloud and Snowflake Bidrectional Data Sharing Enterprises generate valuable customer data within Salesforce applications, while increasingly relying on Snowflake as their preferred data platform for storing, modeling, and analyzing their full data estate. This integration between Salesforce and Snowflake minimizes friction, data latency, scale limitations, and data engineering costs associated with using these two leading platforms. The Snowflake Marketplace also offers customers the opportunity to acquire new data sets to enhance or fill gaps in their existing business data, driving innovation. By combining enterprise data and third-party data from Snowflake Marketplace with valuable customer data from Salesforce applications, organizations can unify their data and build powerful AI solutions to surface rich insights, driving superior and differentiated customer experiences. “Zero-ETL data sharing between Salesforce Data Cloud and Snowflake is game-changing. It has opened up new frontiers of data collaboration. We’re excited to see how customers are powering their customer data analytics and developing innovative AI solutions with near real-time data from Salesforce and Snowflake, generating incredible business value. Now that this integration is generally available, this kind of innovation will be broadly accessible,” says Christian Kleinerman, SVP of Product, Snowflake. Power Personalized Experiences with Salesforce and Snowflake Data sharing between Salesforce Data Cloud and Snowflake brings together holistic insights, empowering multiple customer-facing departments within any organization to create a truly robust customer 360. As Snowflake’s Chief Marketing Officer, Denise Persson, often states, a true, enterprise-wide customer 360 is the beating heart of a modern, customer-facing organization. The applicability of this integration spans various industries and unlocks new growth opportunities. For example: The bidirectional integration enables data sharing across business systems, Salesforce clouds, and operational systems, facilitating data set analysis and future action planning. This brings actionable insights and drives actions, unleashing a new level of customer experience and business productivity. Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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WhatsApp Integration Brings Service and Marketing Together

WhatsApp Integration Brings Service and Marketing Together

Salesforce has announced the general availability of Unified Conversations for WhatsApp, transforming one-way marketing promotions and service requests into dynamic, two-way conversations from a single WhatsApp number. WhatsApp Integration Brings Service and Marketing Together. Now, instead of managing separate threads for promotions and support, customers can receive personalized opt-in marketing promotions and individual support all within a single WhatsApp chat. This unified approach allows companies like Agibank to leverage Salesforce data from over 900 hubs within WhatsApp to deliver personalized loan proposals, resolve issues faster, and better support customers in a single conversation. Why It Matters A significant 79% of customers expect consistent interactions across departments, and 75% prefer to communicate with brands through messaging. However, businesses often fail to meet these expectations, with disconnected experiences being a top customer frustration. Salesforce Perspective “With over two billion people using WhatsApp, Salesforce’s Unified Conversations for WhatsApp enables brands to connect with customers in a unified, trusted manner,” said Steve Hammond, EVP and GM of Salesforce Marketing Cloud. “This helps brands break down internal barriers and build stronger relationships throughout the customer journey, ensuring personalized engagement at the right time and context.” Go Deeper Unified Conversations for WhatsApp is powered by Salesforce Data Cloud, allowing companies to consolidate data into Salesforce and create a unified customer profile. This shared profile provides marketers and service agents with the relevant context to deliver trusted experiences in a single chat thread. Innovation in Action Unified Conversations for WhatsApp combines marketing and service conversations, enabling: Customer Perspective Matheus Girardi, Chief Marketing and Customer Officer at Agibank, shared, “Our customers rely on WhatsApp to engage with us. Unifying our data in Salesforce for WhatsApp has improved our user experience by personalizing loan proposals, resolving concerns, and supporting customers. Salesforce’s previous integration with WhatsApp tripled our digital sales, and we are excited to do more.” Roberto Maia, Chief Information Officer at YDUQS, added, “WhatsApp is the preferred messaging app for our students across Brazil. We look forward to utilizing Unified Conversations to better engage and serve them and convert leads faster.” Availability Unified Conversations for WhatsApp is now generally available. More Information Like Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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Why Use Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect

Why Use Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect

Understanding Mobile Connect in Marketing Cloud: Why Use Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect Why Use Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect? Mobile Connect serves as Marketing Cloud’s SMS and MMS messaging tool. It enables the sending of mass text messages either to its standard Mobile Contact list or through established Data Extensions. For Data Extensions, ensure the presence of a Phone field and a Locale field. How does Mobile Connect Work? Mobile Connect simplifies the user experience by verifying the end user through their mobile phone number. This process allows users to confirm their identity online and authorize transactions, sharing only essential personal data required for completing the transaction securely. Getting Started with Mobile Connect: Guidelines and Resources for Mobile Connect: MobileConnect Features: Why Use Marketing Cloud Mobile Connect SMS is the most underrated channel. If we consider the success rates of SMS deliverability, open rate and click rate over the past years you would understand why. Countless companies are going back to SMS in order to maintain a high frequency of engagement with their customers and reach tough geographic markets. Even with the promising future of SMS, the questions are always the same: is it easy/budget-friendly to use this channel in my marketing campaigns? Which use cases are best suited for my business objectives? Is an SMS a medium that can deliver commercial benefits, or just a transactional one? MobileConnect doesn’t actually send messages directly to the subscriber’s mobile phone, however. In order to send messages, MobileConnect pushes a message to partners, known as Aggregators, who then push the message out to the local phone Carriers via their SMS gateways, for the final delivery to the subscriber’s mobile phone. Like1 Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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Case Study: Healthcare Health Cloud Marketing Cloud Large Childrens Hospital

Large children’s hospital needs a usable data model and enhanced security to deliver excellent patient outcomes. Healthcare Health Cloud Marketing Cloud Large Childrens Hospital. Industry: Healthcare Client is a large children’s hospital with pediatric healthcare offering acute care. Problem: Implemented : Our solution? Results: In order to improve operations, provide physician-facing services, and move data—including PHI and PII—to the cloud, we have assisted healthcare providers in overcoming these obstacles. Salesforce offers all-inclusive solutions specifically designed to meet the demands of payers (insurance companies) and providers (healthcare organizations). Better health outcomes, more operational effectiveness, and increased patient engagement are the goals of these solutions. Salesforce solutions for the health and life sciences are tailored to the particular requirements of the medical industry. Salesforce offers digital transformation technology for health and life sciences industries. If you are considering a Salesforce healthcare implementation, contact Tectonic today. Like2 Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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Marketing Cloud Engagement

Salesforce Distributed Marketing Content

Salesforce Distributed Marketing Content empowers you to extend dynamic content to dispersed teams, fostering safe and efficient interaction with that content. Integrate one or more Distributed Marketing Content Blocks seamlessly with standard or custom content areas to facilitate collaborative moments within branded email messages. For instance, enable users to personalize holiday cards with personal notes and images or provide context to market update messages. Leverage Distributed Marketing alongside AMPscript to enable users to craft customized SMS messages. Salesforce Distributed Marketing Content While marketing teams retain control over message structure, ensuring coherence, brand alignment, and compliance, collaborative content augments this framework, granting distributed teams flexibility within set parameters – a concept Salesforce refers to as “flexibility within a framework.” The usage of Distributed Marketing content is flexible and can adapt over time. Since each message is independently configurable, you can initiate with existing assets and introduce collaborative elements as needed. Please note that Distributed Marketing employs JavaScript ES6 for message personalization, requiring the disabling of Prevent Cross-Site Tracking in Safari and third-party cookies in Chrome. Enable Email Personalization with Distributed Marketing Content Blocks Utilize Distributed Marketing Content Blocks within Marketing Cloud to create personalized sections of content for Distributed Marketing users. Enable Custom SMS Messages Incorporate AMPscript into SMS messages to empower users to compose and dispatch custom SMS messages through Distributed Marketing. Personalization Data Extension Distributed Marketing establishes personalization data extensions in Marketing Cloud to store user-entered personalization data for email messages. A personalization data extension is automatically generated when connecting a journey to a campaign or enabling a journey for quick send. Custom SMS messages are not stored here but are accessible in the journey’s event data extension. Legacy Personalization While Legacy Personalization options like Introduction, Conclusion, and Greeting are available, their usage will be supported until End of Support is announced. Like1 Related Posts Salesforce OEM AppExchange Expanding its reach beyond CRM, Salesforce.com has launched a new service called AppExchange OEM Edition, aimed at non-CRM service providers. Read more The Salesforce Story In Marc Benioff’s own words How did salesforce.com grow from a start up in a rented apartment into the world’s Read more Salesforce Jigsaw Salesforce.com, a prominent figure in cloud computing, has finalized a deal to acquire Jigsaw, a wiki-style business contact database, for Read more Health Cloud Brings Healthcare Transformation Following swiftly after last week’s successful launch of Financial Services Cloud, Salesforce has announced the second installment in its series Read more

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