AI Sales Leader InsideSales.com Expands Partnership with Microsoft

AI Sales Leader InsideSales.com Expands Partnership with Microsoft Ahead of Accelerate 2018

Sudipto Ghosh

January 22, 2018

InsideSales.com and Microsoft Re-evaluate Efforts and Strategies to Deliver Next-Gen Guided Selling and Unprecedented AI Capabilities to Customers

InsideSales.com, a leading AI-growth platform for sales, has announced its plans a or continued partnership with Microsoft. The renewed partnership will focus on technology integrations that empower sales organizations with modern, predictive business applications. The latest announcement is a forward step in a growing and increasingly prosperous relationship that started three years ago.

The company is expected to reveal more details about this strategic partnership with Microsoft and much more at the annual executive growth summit, Accelerate 2018 at Snowbird Utah, March 5-7, 2018.

The latest announcement follows key technology integrations delivered last year from both companies, including Playbooks integrations for Microsoft Dynamics 365, and Predictive Playbooks integrations for LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

AvePoint and FIS are among the many leading global enterprises that have chosen InsideSales.com and Microsoft as their AI growth platform for sales.

Dave Elkington, the CEO of InsideSales.com, said, “Microsoft is a perfect partner for InsideSales.com to continue supercharging sales teams. The unique combination of Microsoft’s data graph across its productivity and business applications, together with our AI platforms, creates an unmatched solution for sales teams to be successful.”

Tom Lin, corporate vice president, AvePoint, said, ‘We are long-standing customers and partners with both InsideSales.com and Microsoft. Our team sees significant business value in building more pipeline using their sales acceleration software. We believe the combination of InsideSales.com and Microsoft data can bring even more value to our sales teams who are constantly looking for increased predictive power around who to engage and how to engage them.”

According to Steve Brain, a former senior leader at Amazon and CTO of InsideSales.com, “Leveraging the unique Microsoft social, email and business solutions, along with Microsoft Azure and the Common Data Service, will accelerate our AI robustness and product innovation, and bulletproof our infrastructure.”

James Phillips, corporate vice president, Microsoft Business Applications Group, said, “Our continued partnership with InsideSales.com will advance integrations already underway that deliver proven AI and demonstrable impact to enterprise sales teams. We believe technology integrations with InsideSales.com and Microsoft’s leading cloud services for business — including Dynamics 365, Office 365 and LinkedIn Sales Navigator — create a uniquely valuable toolset for sales teams across the globe.”