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Two days into this year’s Dreamforce conference and we’re noticing that data is a big trending topic.

And we’re ecstatic.

Quality of data is the key to the sales intelligence business and we pride ourselves in being able to deliver smart, fresh and complete information to sales people all around the world in real-time. BNET’s David Weir wrote an in-depth article today from Dreamforce on the changing landscape of sales intelligence industry and the increasing importance of data gleaned from social media. Weir gives InsideView’s Sales 2.0 business model a strong endorsement in the piece, noting, “Meanwhile, the legacy biz-intel companies are still out there, trying to adapt, but disruptive technology companies like InsideView look to me to be poised to eat their lunch.” To read the full article, please click here.

As we noted in our announcement earlier this month, the constantly increasing sources of data now available on the Web have led to the rapid abandonment of traditional editorial providers like Hoover’s and OneSource for Sales 2.0 solutions like SalesView, which are able to quickly aggregate relevant information from across the Web and deliver it immediately.

Throughout the #DF09 expo floor this year, you’ll see folks working in the “better data” realm left and right. Everything from ensuring accurate account views to monitoring sentiment information to the real-time aggregation end like we work in — and this all of course validated by the huge announcement from salesforce.com yesterday on their new Chatter launch — it’s becoming all about the data.

Just what we like to see!

Are you headed to DreamForce next week? The InsideView team will be there, demoing, speaking, and most importantly helping attendees learn more about using social data to drive ROI in their businesses. The show this year is packed with interesting companies, sessions and even fun contests. If you’re interested in the confluence of social media and the enterprise and how it all mashes together at Dreamforce, we’ve gone ahead and picked some of the more interesting ways to fill your Dreamforce dance card.

  1. Sales 2.0 Night – Get cocktails and network with Sales 2.0 leaders Thursday, November 19th, 6pm – 8pm at the Sculpturesite Gallery – RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/y8nfbec
  2. Attend InsideView’s panel “How to Tap into Social Media to Drive Sales Results” Wednesday, Nov 18th @ 3:30 PM, at West Mezzanine 254
  3. Follow the #DF09 hashtag on Twitter
  4. Check out some of these cool vendors’ booths: Genius, Xactly, BlueWolf
  5. Party in the Cloud Tuesday 8-10pm at Two Bar. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/2pCMjV
  6. Get on the Napa Valley Wine Train: Dreamforce attendees get a special deal
  7. Enter our contest to win an Aston Martin for the weekend: Register here
  8. Join the mosh pit at the Black Crowes concert
  9. Share InsideView’s James Bond-themed Dreamforce video:
We want to share an exciting opportunity for you, our loyal blog readers, to join and invigorate the conversation about CRM. InsideView is participating in the Dreamforce conference (sponsored by Salesforce.com) ”panel picker,” where potential speakers submit ideas and the community votes on what panels they would most like to see at the conference in November. Our proposed panel “Translating Social Media into Sales Intelligence,” aims to foster a discussion about the enormous potential within social media to enhance CRM applications. We think more people deserve to understand the socialprise and we can’t think of a better way to get people talking about it.

So, let’s get social about socialprise — please vote. (We tell you how below.)

To Vote:
1. Go to http://dreamforce.ideas.salesforce.com/, and click “Login” in the top left.
2. Log In–if you have a Salesforce.com account, use that. If not, make a free trial account (it takes about 30 seconds, and you will receive your user name and password via email.)
3. Read and reflect on the glory that is four pages of ideas and comments, all about CRM and sales–and how professionals can adapt the latest technology and practices for a more “with it” CRM.
4. Vote: We titled our contribution “Translating Social Media into Sales Intelligence.” Right now it’s the first one you’ll see on the page.

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