Seesmic is focused on social enterprise; Android, iPad Debuts Apps for Salesforce CRM

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Social application developer Seesmic makes a big step in social enterprise and debuting dedicated Android app and iPad app for Salesforce CRM product (Windows phone 7 will also be added soon), called Seesmic CRM. Android app will be published tomorrow morning at Salesforce at the annual Conference, Dreamforce and Seesmic launches iPad app within a few weeks.

For the background of Seesmic, which was founded by a French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur, allows you to monitor and follow up the social web. Seesmic desktop, Internet and mobile clients integrate with Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. Bonus using an application like Seesmic is the ability to combine your streams from a variety of social Web services such as YouTube, Foursquare, Techmeme, LinkedIn, and others.

But lately, Seesmic dabbling in the enterprise and launch more focused business functions. Last fall, Seesmic has deep integration with Salesforce enterprise social network chatter. And then earlier this year, Salesforce 4 million Australian dollars round in Seesmic.

Mostly Seesmic Android and iPad apps CRM lead all the functionality of Salesforce CRM for mobile phones. Users can search their Salesforce.com account from native applications; Search for leads, contacts, accounts, related activities and sets of chatter on the move; Creating and updating leads, contacts, tasks, and activities; Log calls and emails after meetings; and much more. And applications use mobile OS; to map users to their respective leads to their current location; upload photos and more. While prices had not been announced yet, Seesmic may charge a fee of $ 10 per month per user for the application.

Le Meur tells us that he does not compete with Salesforce CRM giant, because currently does not offer in-depth Android and iPad apps. In fact, Seesmic is working "hand in hand" with Salesforce mobile group to develop these native apps. And Salesforce particularly bullish on social enterprise at the end — "Welcome to the social enterprise» is the theme of the Dreamforce this year. As Le Meur said: "we are working with Salesforce, not compete with the company."

Of course it's interesting that Twitter's developer platform is shifting focus from building consumer and focusing on the enterprise. In March, Twitter basically told developers avoid compete with them on their own customers. It's not that Twitter doesn't want developers to build off their platform, they simply do not want developers to create clients that simulate Twitter's own services.

Thus Seesmic found new user base in the area of business. Le Meur explains that the use of mobile and social enterprise of the future for Seesmic. While the startup will not relinquish their Web and mobile applications (Android app company has more than one million users); all efforts of Seesmic now completely focused on attracting social for business users, "said Le million euros.

Seesmic BlackBerry app shuttered a few months ago. You can watch Le million euros in a recent conversation with TechCrunch TV Andrew Kina here.

(Disclosure: TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington was an early investor in Seesmic.)

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Update management platform Vitrue social media for brands with better analytics and much more

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Vitrue, social media marketing company, rolling out version 3.0 platform management of its social media for brands. New features include localization and enhanced analytics and metrics in a single dashboard interface.

As we wrote in the past, Vitrue in SaaS platform allows brands and marketing agencies in the
communicate with fans and consumers through Facebook, YouTube and Twitter account, location based services and mobile applications. The company's SRM (social relationship management) platform is used for a number of high profile brands, including Harley Davidson, Mentos, Dick's sporting goods, Crocs, Eddie Bauer, Maybelline, Purina, McDonald 's, YouTube, Ford, AT&T, Disney and Best Buy.

The latest version of the software Vitrue comes with new dashboard and user interface, allowing marketers to see, access and manage all available functions, tools and modules within a single interface. The company has also added enhanced analytics and metrics give marketers specific indicators on demography and bringing their social pages and users, including understanding traffic sources, the total population of user Top fan profiles, fan growth breakdowns, top snapshot location for the post of publication metrics and statistics of participation by user action (i.e., for example, comment, share, play, etc.) and day of week and time of day.

Other features include the ability to publish targeted content for specific users, the ability to add coupons, quizzes and more campaigns and 24-7 customer support.

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faced with competition from MEDIA buddy.

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Social enterprise company Jive files for IPO of $ 100 m; 2010 Year income totaled $ 46 m

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Social Enterprise giant Jive has just filed its S-1 and increase as much as $ 100 million in hosting.

Modeled to offer Facebook such opportunities to enterprises, Jive Software combines computing with social interactions offer full-fledged social networking for business. Suite Help business collaborate on various tasks, including discussions, communication, exchange of documents, blogs, polls, and social networking features and more.

Some of the key information in respect to revenue. For the period ended December 31, 2008, 2009 and 2010, and for the six months ended June 30, 2011, Jive, raising $ 16.9 million income million, $ 46.3 million and 34.0 million, respectively.

The company actually took the loss in 2008, 2009, 2010 and a six-month period ending in June 2011. Loss appears to actually increase — the company lost $ 27.6 million in 2010, and $30,6 million this year. The company says that it continues to invest revenues back into infrastructure, development and sales and marketing and expects that operating expenses increased significantly.

Jive also said that he was switching their clients DATA from third-party service provider for the blend Fund managed by Jive's own network operations, which will require significant capital.

From June 30, 2011, Jive has 635 corporate clients, including Hewlett-Packard Company, SAP AG, T-Mobile and UBS AG, with more than 15 million users. Currently, the company had 358 staff on June 30, 2011 year.

Jive, said that he plans to use proceeds from the offering to repay outstanding loans (20 million United States dollars) and for general corporate purposes, including working capital and potential acquisitions.

From the point of view of the Jive raised total investment 57 million dollars and the company's largest investor Sequoia Capital owns more than a third of Jive (36 per cent). Kleiner Perkins owns 14.24% Jive.

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Accel enhances social entrepreneurship experience, adds creator Salesforce chatter as RBPS

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After you add online payments exec Bill ready as artist in residence, Accel Partners and Foundation to the other areas of knowledge with the addition of former Salesforce.com Executive Chuck Puranic as firms registered entrepreneur in residence. In Puranic Accel, which was the creator of Salesforce to "Facebook for the enterprise" chatter, will focus on developing the company in the space of social enterprises.

Prior to joining Accel, Puranic, served as Senior Vice President of products at Salesforce.com chatter and mobile leading the company's product development efforts in the social enterprise network. Salesforce chatter was not only the first real foray into the social, but the platform has been lauded as the company's most successful product release ever.

During this time, the Puranic led acquiring two companies: Dimdim, real-time collaboration platform and GroupSwim, community platform with semantic filtering technology. He also led the integration of acquired technology and teams from two files, Exchange and cooperation of enterprises, Koral and SlideAware.

Puranic ran Salesforce Automation product sales, sales cloud, which makes one of the largest of the company's income. Prior to his 5 year stint at Salesforce Puranic during 6 years in Siebel systems where he served as founding product manager their first Internet-based Siebel eChannel. He ran the company's ecommerce and order management.

As an entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners Puranic will evaluate and develop new business opportunities created by the intersection of social and mobile technologies in the enterprise.

Puranic obviously has considerable experience in the enterprise software industry and has special attention in the social sphere in recent times. Although Puranic did not reveal any specifics that it would be the establishment in Accel, he shares his views that he believed that social enterprise applications, such as the chatter is only the beginning of a long-term trend.

"Just as we went from a local software to cloud computing, there will be a similar step for social enterprises," explains Puranic. Of course there are a number of more mature and dominant companies that appeared in the space of social enterprises such as Jive and complain, and many social enterprise companies are getting bought. It can be argued that there can be no more room for new players.

But Puranic said that there are certain areas which change and are ripe for innovation, including how to translate conversations conducted in conditions of work performance and switching distribution model in SaaS.

As a social enterprise within Accel long-term strategy? Partner Kevin Efrusy, who attended Stanford business school with the Puranic, explains that one of the cornerstones for venture firms investing strategies of empowerment, based on the social web. Accel bets on social game by Playfish, social commerce with Groupon and more recently, social recruiting with BranchOut.

Now, he explains, is the time for movement in the space of social and mobile enterprise and Accel decided to develop their own ideas. He adds that the Puranic stories and ' technical ' depth made it an ideal person to execute that vision.

And EIR incubation model of success within Accel in the past. Cloudera, start distributing commercially and Apache Hadoop also incubated at Accel. And Couchbase, company data, database NoSQL option has also been developed in-house.

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Radian6 takes social media monitoring platform for Mobile with new iOS Salesforce App

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Radian6, which was acquired by Salesforce 326 million dollars earlier this year, has offered some of the world's largest brands, Web social media monitoring platform. However, the company has not offered a mobile component clients monitor brands to go far. Today, Salesforce Radian6 announces its first mobile presence with new application iOS.

Radian6 helps clients like Dell, GE, Kodak and UPS to monitor, analyze, and participate in the "hundreds of millions of" conversations in social media. User interface is similar to the Radian6 Web platform, and agencies and marketers can now control the overall volume, share of conversation, geographical distribution and more data from your application on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. You can filter, the keyword, type, date range, and more to view conversations.

You can also create a custom listening "stacked" based on certain topics, lists, user assignment, and mood. Managers can actually post classification and assign tasks to staff from the application. And users are able to respond to Tweets, posts, threads or blog comments straight from your application.

The application itself is free for users of Radian6. It is actually surprising that Radian6 not iPhone app considering that a large part of social media monitoring for brands takes place in real-time and mobile applications helps marketers keep track of conversations on the go. The company claims that the Android application is on the product roadmap. "

It should be interesting to see how Salesforce integrates with own products like Radian6 chatter. In the past, told CRM giant ' combination will create a bridge between public conversations and chatter "and" raise the Salesforce's sales and service cloud products with social intelligence that can respond to clients. Developers based on Force.com will also have the opportunity to unleash the power of Radian6, implementing everything that they build the social web. "

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NEA and Sequoia put $ 18 m in socially oriented brand social media platform for hearsay

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Rumors social, SaaS dashboard for national enterprises and their local offices to manage Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter pages, raised $ 18 million in new funding led by new Enterprise Associates (NEA) participation by existing investor Sequoia Capital. In connection with the financing of NEA partner John Sakoda joins the rumored Social Board of Directors. To date, hearsay social raises $ 21 million in funding.

The social rumour, which is open to the public in February, is designed to help big brands that have local offices (i.e., Starbucks, BestBuy), manage Facebook, Twitter and other social media pages. From the highly distributed nature of some of the companies that have the local offices of the Office of the social media pages for shops or offices, which is still in accordance with the decision of the company is a complex process.

Rumors of a social enterprise has been optimized for enterprise/local "allow local representatives, agents, advisers, franchisee or store managers to manage social media pages, while ensuring that local representatives to remain in line with the brand guidelines and content rules. SaaS applications makes compliance, workflow, content management and analytics on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

The central panel for the communication functions of brands, archiving, keyword flag and workflow and approval capabilities of filtering. Users can also suggest taking the campaign to the local offices and reps and analysts access to Facebook, Twitter and Facebook pages for regions or subregions.

In the opinion of the local branch of the hearsay social invites heads of proposed content, and 360-degree view of Facebook fans and friends, LinkedIn, and twitter followers. The platform will also allow local branch post updates and checks their updates page (that is, filter profanity) in accordance with the policy of the chain of social media. The company also signed a contract with LinkedIn to collaborate on sales and marketing efforts, as well as full integration between social hearsay and LinkedIn, Messaging API.

Today rumors also adds several new features to its software. Integrated social campaigns allows marketing package Facebook tabs, posts and ads in campaigns that local representatives can run with a single click. Targeting and timing may also be predefined so that companies can deploy phase campaign that reps can easily run on a local level.

One of the social rumour came to when helps companies manage local shops that many company heads of district and regional operations that manage local offices. This run included her administrator access to the district level with a custom hierarchy, roles and privileges.

Furthermore rumours social now define pages rogue social media, which represent the company's brand, but are outside of corporate control. Any violations or correspondence on these pages is also captured by hearsay.

Hearsay social was founded by a former employee of Google and Salesforce Clara Shih and former Microsoft employee Steve Garrity. Shi said she wrote the Facebook era, she saw that there was a market for a better local service for corporate brands.

Rumours have convinced some financial services company and is already in use by State Farm and farmers insurance group of companies (as well as fitness chain 24 hour fitness). Shea tells us that the new funds would be used twice the number of the company for 80 staff by the end of the year.

Hearsay social provides the first comprehensive SaaS social media for brands with local branches and representative offices. Hearsay social helps these organizations ' corporate/local "centrally measure, manage, and deploy the content.

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