?EU?Salesforce?EU?s born-in-the-cloud partner ecosystem is rapidly growing and changing -- partner types are morphing together, new app categories like Lightning components are emerging and partners are increasingly leading digital transformation initiatives with customers,?EU? said Tyler Prince, EVP Alliances and Go-to-Market Innovation, Salesforce. ?EU?With these new enhancements to the Salesforce Partner Program announced today, we hope to continue providing our partners with the right tools and resources to grow, thrive and drive customer success.?EU?
But it is likely the acquisition of Krux that most attendees will be talking about this year. The company, which sells marketing data tools, had already been closely aligned with Salesforce as part of its partner ecosystem. The deal is reported to be worth around $700 million and should help make that integration even deeper.
?EU?Krux will extend the Salesforce Marketing Cloud?EU?s audience segmentation and targeting capabilities to power consumer marketing with even more precision, at scale,?EU? the company wrote on its corporate blog. ?EU?In addition, Krux will feed Salesforce Einstein with billions of new signals, enabling companies to be even smarter about their customers.?EU?
Salesforce has been on something of a buying spree lately. This summer saw the company snatch up business analytics platform BeyondCore, ecommerce platform Demandware, and productivity company Quip. It was also believed to be looking into acquiring LinkedIn before Microsoft bought the professional social network. Salesforce is rumored to be considering an acquisition of Twitter as well.
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