Thanks to everyone who attended the ‘Lean Lunch’ at WebVisions in Chicago, and my Lean UX session at InfoCamp Seattle. Every time I have these meetings and discussions, I learn something new about how people are running their UX practices. It was especially heartening in Seattle to see how many people feel like UX is important to their organizations and that they get the respect and authority they need to do a good job.
Hitchcock Fleming & Associates Inc. (hfa), a leading full-service marketing agency in Northeast Ohio drives consumer and business-to-business campaigns for retail, industrial, automotive, medical, travel, building product and government clients.
BloomReach, creators of big data marketing applications, today announced $25 million in a Series C, bringing BloomReach's total funding to $41 million. This round was led by SaaS/Enterprise firm, NEA. With this new influx of capital BloomReach plans to invest in building out their sales and marketing team, along with further expansion of R&D.
Lettuce, recently launched order management solutions provider, announced $2.1 million in seed funding from 500 Startups, Crosscut Ventures, Launchpad LA, Baroda Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Double M Capital and others. Lettuce focuses on the small to medium sized business market and solves the divide between order and inventory management with its simple Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application.
AJ Square Inc, reputed software company announces 25% discount on all its software product enterprise license. Also they announces user license buyers can also upgraded their license to enterprise with discount. Additionally the company offers 375USD worth design package for every enterprise license buyers.
DreamSimplicity has partnered with the Cloud Channel Summit happening Monday November 5 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This is the second year DreamSimplicity is working closely with the event to capture video and tell the story of the cloud as it relates to channel management. Last year DS filmed over 35 videos with the industry's top thought leaders and executives. The videos are deployed on a mircosite dedicated to the event and can be viewed here.
ExactTarget, interactive marketing solutions provider, announced the acquisition of Pardot, a marketing automation provider, for $95.5 million, and iGoDigital, web personalized solutions provider, for $21 million.
It's been almost a month since Dreamforce took over the city here in San Francisco, but the impressions, experiences, and more importantly the relationships developed at the event will carry on for years to come. In some cases, we've developed new business partnerships and friendships which can be attributed to revenue. That's great thing. The folks here at DS TV have put together a video dedicated to the people that attended this year's event. Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments section.
getTalent, a company providing candidate engagement tools for recruiters has raised $2.6 million in funding.
