XANT, the enterprise sales engagement leader, announces an integration enhancement for their platform, Playbooks. With this integration, Playbooks and Highspot customers can now insert Highspot pitches directly into Playbooks emails, pull content from Highspot, and create custom experiences for each prospect. In July, XANT and Highspot released the first version of the integration to solve a serious sales problem: the struggle of centralizing email sales collateral. Now, customers using Highspot's revenue enablement…

XANT announced its partnership with Cision, an industry-leading earned media communications management and media advisory platform, to enable their move to opportunity-based selling and provide customers with the best solutions. Marketing Technology News: Dun & Bradstreet Enters Into Agreement to Acquire Bisnode Cision serves more than 75,000 clients through their public relations platform and their vision remains focused on their customers. The decision to partner with XANT was inspired by their desire to pivot…

XANT, the leading Enterprise Sales Engagement Platform, was recognized in the recent Forrester Wave™: Sales Engagement, Q3 2020 report with the highest scores in the AI and automation criteria. XANT also received the highest possible score in the category vision criteria which reflects XANT's strong point of view on revenue generation and differentiated approach. The report gave XANT the highest possible score in eleven other criteria, including CRM integration, email/calendaring integration, dialer integration,…

XANT, the leading Enterprise Sales Engagement Platform, announces Mark Novakovich, former Chief Financial Officer of Control4, as new CFO. Novakovich has a record of driving performance to meet and exceed growth and financial objectives. He spent the last 15 years at Control4, where he helped to scale the company from pre-revenue to $300 million. While at Control4 he helped take the company public in 2013, increased shareholders' value during the six years as a publicly-traded company, and aided in a $700 million all-cash…

Industry veteran with greater than 30 years of Sales experience at Anaplan, Domo, SAP Ariba, Acxiom, and Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) joins XANT to accelerate growth in the Enterprise market XANT, formerly InsideSales.com, the leading Enterprise Sales Engagement platform, announces the appointment of Peter Black, former VP of Sales at Anaplan, as Chief Revenue Officer. Most recently, as VP of Sales, covering the largest area business unit for Anaplan, Black played a key role in their rapid growth, which included a…

Leader in modern engagement solutions announces first-ever initiative aimed at benefiting sales teams on-the-go Revenue acceleration cloud company XANT announced the industry's first fully mobile sales engagement solution of its kind: Playbooks Mobile. Building on the XANT flagship product Playbooks, this innovative mobile experience provides sales reps all the proprietary buyer intelligence benefits of the full Playbooks platform wherever they go. "The future of sales engagement is mobile, and our new Playbooks Mobile…

XANT, the revenue acceleration cloud platform, announced the speaker lineup at the company's inaugural NEXT 2020 conference. The event will bring together customers, thought leaders and industry experts in the XANT network in order to provide attendees new insights, valuable connections and unique experiences all within the world of sales and marketing. Marketing Technology News: Malvertising: How It Ruins a User’s Day, and Destroys Their Trust in Digital Advertising Throughout the conference, attendees will hear from…

Inaugural customer conference will bring together XANT users and industry experts XANT, formerly InsideSales.com, announced it will host its inaugural customer conference, NEXT 2020, in Salt Lake City on February 25-28, 2020. NEXT 2020 will bring together the XANT network of customers, partners, and industry thought leaders to discuss the challenges facing revenue teams, reveal best practices by winning sales teams, and how to ultimately accelerate revenue in today's transformational environment. "As NetApp has engaged…

Sales Solution from XANT Singled out for Market Presence and Customer Satisfaction XANT, formerly InsideSales.com, announced it has been named the enterprise leader in the latest G2 Grid® report for Outbound Call Tracking platforms. The XANT Playbooks product ranked first in the Grid, receiving the highest scores for market presence and customer satisfaction. XANT Playbooks achieved an overall user score of 90, beating out every other sales acceleration vendor in the market.  In addition to Outbound Call Tracking, XANT…

XANT Helps Leading Enterprise Companies Build Closeable Pipeline and Expand Customers InsideSales.com announced its corporate rebrand to XANT. Under the new name, XANT will continue to build upon the company's innovative foundation and customer adoption for its intelligent sales engagement solutions. A play on the word cognizant, XANT embodies how its data and platform make sales organizations "all-knowing."  This new brand name reflects the hyper-aware, informed sales organization that XANT solutions enable. Along…

Today’s Daily MarTech Roundup covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience, AI, and ML announcements from Tethr (Customer Experience), Miva (E-commerce), XANT (Sales Engagement), Cohley (Content), Revcontent (Content Marketing). The Northridge Group and Tethr Announce Strategic Partnership The Northridge Group, Inc., an industry leader in contact center and customer experience consulting, and Tethr, the market’s most advanced conversation intelligence platform, announced the formation of…

Today’s Daily MarTech Roundup covers the latest in Cloud, Marketing Analytics, Automation, Customer experience, AI, and ML announcements from Infosys (Customer Experience), ManyChat (Customer Service), Dun & Bradstreet (Analytics), XANT (Sales Engagement), and Adverity (AI/ML). Infosys to Acquire Blue Acorn iCi Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Blue Acorn iCi, Adobe Platinum partner in the US, and a leader in digital customer…

Outreach, the number one sales engagement platform, announced hiring Leslie Pendergrast to the new role of Chief People Officer. Pendergrast brings more than 20 years of experience driving global technology growth and has held senior Human Resources leadership roles in both public and private companies. "As Outreach grows its employee base and expands into new markets, we searched for a talented global human resources executive with a track record of bringing startup technology companies to scale, while ensuring employees…

Experienced Product Leader Joins Leadership Team Committed to Delivering Powerful, Differentiated Value to Customers Mavenlink, the leading provider of cloud-based software for the modern services organization, announced it has appointed Jared Haleck as its new senior vice president of product. Haleck will oversee the Mavenlink product management, product design, and quality assurance functions. Haleck, who will report directly to CEO Ray Grainger, brings deep experience leading product development for organizations in the…

Acuant, a leading global provider of identity verification solutions, announced the company is on track for a record year in revenue generation for 2019. The company marked another consecutive year of impressive milestones speaking to the growing demand for identity verification. Acuant was most recently named in the Gartner Modernizing IAM Architecture With Machine Learning report (Gartner subscription required), published December 3, 2019 by VP Analyst Mary Ruddy. "We have seen an increase in demand for omnichannel…

Series E funding round is led by Coatue with participation from existing investors Tiger Global Management and Battery Ventures Kustomer, the SaaS platform reimagining enterprise customer service, announced today it raised $60 million in Series E funding. This latest round of financing was led by Coatue with participation from current investors Tiger Global Management and Battery Ventures. Over the last 18 months, Kustomer has raised $161 million of funding across four rounds, bringing the company's total funding to $173.5…

Digital Marketing Expertise from Mitsui to Accelerate Factual’s Entry into the Japanese Market Factual, the location data company, announced a strategic partnership with Mitsui & Co. (“Mitsui” head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Tatsuo Yasunaga) to bring Factual’s location data-based offerings to Japan. Mitsui, which has also made a strategic investment in Factual, will assist with the integration of Factual data into local programmatic ad buying, social and publisher platforms, and will also drive…

Customer Success Leader from Brightpearl and Channeladvisor Will Build Customer Success Organization at Fast-Growing Online Gallery Provider ShootProof, a leading global provider of online gallery software and services for professional and semi-professional photographers, today announced the hiring of James Scott as Vice President of Customer Success. Scott brings more than a decade of customer success experience to ShootProof, where he will lead the customer success and customer support teams. ShootProof announces…

Customers Give Looker’s Data Platform a 100% Recommendation Score Looker, a leading data platform company, announced that it received top-rankings and a perfect customer recommendation score in its second appearance in The BI Survey 19 from the Business Application Research Centre (BARC). Looker received top-rankings and a perfect customer recommendation score in The BI Survey 19 from the Business Application Research Centre The report provides feedback from over 3,000 respondents across 95 countries using 36 BI…

Doubles Number of ANZ Agency Partners While Ramping Investment in Australia’s Local and WordPress Communities WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform (DXP), announced it is now the largest WordPress DXP in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). As part of that growth, WP Engine’s customer base is now over 4,000 and the number of Australian and New Zealand (ANZ)-based agencies in the company’s Agency Partner Program (APP), the largest in WordPress, doubled its growth year-over-year. ANZ customers leveraging WP…