SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - May 27, 2010) - InsideView, a Sales 2.0 leader, today announced that Heidi Tucker has joined its executive management team as vice president of business development and alliances. Heidi joins InsideView from Hoovers, where she was the VP of business development. Previously she was the SVP of enterprise sales at First Research, a Dun & Bradstreet Company.
InsideView's flagship product, SalesView, has rapidly become the new, de-facto standard in the sales intelligence market. More than 500 thought-leading companies are using SalesView to achieve new levels of sales productivity, powered by highly relevant company and executive intelligence delivered within their sales workflow. InsideView's existing partnerships with Oracle (Oracle CRM Inner Circle), Salesforce.com (top three highest rated and most often downloaded application on AppExchange), NetSuite (Premier Suite Cloud partner), Microsoft and SugarCRM have been an integral part of InsideView's success in reaching a user-base of more than 30,000. Tucker will not only focus on strengthening and deepening existing CRM relationships, but also on extending the existing partnerships with social media companies, social networks and user-contributed marketplaces.
"We saw unprecedented enthusiasm and response to this role, with more than 200 applicants," said Umberto Milletti, CEO and founder of InsideView. "Heidi stood out from that extensive talent pool because of her passion for our product and business model, and her ability to build long-term relationships with partners and colleagues. As our first ever VP of business development and alliances, she will have the opportunity to extend our existing partner ecosystem, and chart a path to sales intelligence ubiquity."
"From the first time I saw the SalesView product, I recognized InsideView as the new leader in the rapidly expanding sales intelligence market," said Tucker. "I am energized by the opportunity to be part of a company that is bringing the new world of social media to enterprises. With all the buzz about Social CRM and Sales 2.0, it is great to be with a company that is growing so rapidly and helping tens of thousands of enterprise users leverage social intelligence to dramatically increase their productivity."
About InsideView
InsideView is a Sales 2.0 leader, bringing intelligence gained from social media and traditional editorial sources to the enterprise to increase sales productivity and velocity. InsideView's award-winning sales intelligence solution, SalesView, continuously aggregates and analyzes relevant executive and corporate data from thousands of content sources to uncover new sales opportunities. SalesView delivers this intelligence natively within CRMs and mobile devices for optimum usability. The San Francisco-headquartered company was founded in 2005 and is venture-backed by Emergence Capital Partners, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Greenhouse Capital Partners. InsideView's products are used by more than 30,000 sales professionals and over 2,000 companies worldwide, including Adobe, BMC, CapGemini, EMC, IBM and VMWare. InsideView's CRM partners include Oracle, Salesforce.com, NetSuite, Microsoft and SugarCRM. For more information, visit http://www.insideview.com/.
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