The document discusses socialprise technology which combines social media and enterprise applications. It describes how socialprise applications like Sales Intelligence can help salespeople like Bob by providing insights into prospects from a variety of sources, mapping that information to behaviors and relationships, and delivering the right insights at the right time within the tools salespeople already use. This allows salespeople to prioritize prospects and opportunities more effectively than traditional tools alone. The document provides an example of how Bob uses the InsideView Sales Intelligence application to improve his ability to identify and close deals.

1. Socialprise:
Leveraging Social
Data in the Enterprise
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2. Contents
I. Socialprise: Capturing Smart Insights into Agile Relationships
II. Socialprise Applications: Getting the Who, What and When of
Business Where You Need It Most
III. The New Science of Deal-Making
a. What you know: Casting a Wide Net for Relevant Information
b. Who You Know: Mapping Information to Behaviors & People
c. When You Know: Getting the Right Information at the Right Time
d. Where You Know: Getting the Right Information in the Right Place
IV. InsideView: The Pioneer in Sales Intelligence Applications
V. About InsideView

3. I. Socialprise: Capturing Smart Insights
into Agile Relationships
“It’s not what you know, but who you know.”
You’ve heard that old phrase countless times, no doubt - and it continues to be true for
many aspects of business relationships even today. Having good information that can
lead to good business deals is important, but having the right social connections also
matters. It used to be that executives would spend a lot of time in social activities to
connect with the right people at the right time. Golf and athletic clubs, conferences and
other settings for social activities still bring many executives together today to help them
build business relationships. But for a lot of dealmakers those techniques went out the
window as their primary networking tools a long time ago – as did the business
information systems that supported them.
Take Bob, for example. Bob’s an up-and-coming executive at a major technology
company selling big-ticket solutions to major enterprises as well as to small and medium
businesses. Bob has a pretty good personal network, but oftentimes it’s no match for the
number and caliber of people he needs to reach in his company’s strategic sales efforts.
For Bob, figuring out how to connect with his prospects at dozens of companies takes
more than a game of golf down at the country club. Between trying to update and track
profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook and Plaxo, keeping up with text messages and emails,
news feeds from blogs, his company’s subscription databases and intelligence reports,
Bob is desperately trying to make sense of the ocean of information at his fingertips. As if
that weren’t enough, the people he does know are constantly changing jobs and moving
in and out of his target industries. He hardly has time to know who’s gone where, much
less to understand what their new business needs may be. These agile relationships are
challenging Bob to uncover the fresh insights that can trigger the best business
opportunities.
Put simply, trying to keep up with who you should know and what you should know about
them and their current business priorities is a tough job for Bob these days.
Bob’s got a real problem. His company’s business information services don’t do
anywhere near enough to help him sort through potential deals and dealmakers, His
subscription databases and list building services can give him facts, data and news, but
the filtering they provide is rarely enough to help Bob identify the most relevant prospects
for sales and business development activities. Search engines? Fine for hit-or-miss
information on a few companies, but they don’t offer a real scalable solution across his
territory – and they certainly don’t help him understand all that much about a prospect’s
immediate pain points. LinkedIn, Facebook and other social media portals help Bob keep
tabs on his social and professional relationships, but they don’t really help him
understand what business opportunities would be right for them in any detail.
Maintaining these “parallel universes” of social media for personal relationship
information and of business information services for news, data and research just doesn’t
work for Bob anymore. It’s time-consuming to say the least and oftentimes results in
missed opportunities even when he had the right relationships and the right products.
Bob’s tired. Bob’s frustrated.
Bob needs to try something new.

4. II. Socialprise Applications: Getting the Who,
What and When of Business Where You Need
It Most
Bob’s real problem is that he cannot easily combine the insights from business
information with the relationships most ready for deal-making. The key to solving Bob’s
problem is recognizing it’s not who you know that will make business deals happen but
“what you know about who you know” tightly synched with “when you should know
it”. He needs insights into what is motivating people in his deal flow to help him
understand who to target first on a daily basis. Once Bob identifies the right opportunities
he needs to understand quickly who’s going to be the best person to approach.
To achieve Bob goal’s requires combining the best enterprise-ready information sources
with the best insights into social relationships and buyer behavior. But there’s no one
source which has everything that Bob needs to know. What Bob needs is a service that
will harvest and aggregate intelligence from any and every source that can make a
difference, map that information into actionable insights concerning key events and
behaviors exhibited by his prospects and to integrate all of that into whatever applications
he already uses on a daily basis.
What Bob needs is a Socialprise application.
Socialprise is the natural convergence of social media and enterprise applications,
emerging as a mash-up of both the information and user experience of these previously
separate universes.
Who You Know
+ • Automated discovery of personal and professional relationships
• Aggregated from social networks, contacts lists, and company relationships
What You Know
+ • Actionable insights about opportunities and deal-oriented activities
• Harvested from many different sources of both structured and
unstructured data
When You Know
+ • Pro-active alerts about deal-related behaviors, events and key insights
• Generated by smart agents that continually search for key business events
Where You Know
+ • Delivered within the familiar context of enterprise applications like CRM which
are already used every day to develop and manage business opportunities

5. III. The New Science of Deal-Making
Socialprise technology is the answer to situation that many companies are finding
themselves in as they search for more effective business information services. After a
decade of watching their staffs use new search tools and consumer applications on the
Web to become more productive in their personal lives, smart enterprises are realizing
that it pays to give their people access to any information or tools that can make them
equally productive in their professional lives.
Though search engines on the web are pretty good at finding basic business information
quickly, “Googling” has never been a particularly good way to sift through thousands of
possible companies and contacts to figure out who was really worth talking to today. It is
a hit-or-miss approach to information gathering that can never scale to build a powerful
business intelligence service. Subscription business information services enable you to
build lists of people who might be worth contacting, but not really who is a likely prospect
today. At best most business information services can give you very rough filtering
parameters such as the size of a company or its current revenues. News retrieval
services offer current news headlines and articles, but the filtering available on these
services doesn’t really help you to focus on the types of activities that are most likely to
yield insights into who’s ready to do business today.
Social networks at least help us identify specific people in trusted relationships, but they
rarely expose their current business activities or needs. The trust, openness and
engagement offered by social networking platforms is useful in evaluating people who are
emotionally accessible for a sales approach on a personal level but they don’t really tell
us where to start evaluating sales readiness any more effectively than traditional
business information services.
A new generation of Sales Intelligence solutions, powered by socialprise technology, can
help businesses to step beyond these limitations by combining the best that each of
these services has to offer, leveraging advanced technologies to discover and aggregate
all of this information and distill it into a whole that’s far greater than the sum of its parts.
What’s more, Sales Intelligence presents the resulting insights within the meaningful
context of existing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications and business
processes – which is precisely the point of need. Sales Intelligence works by answering
the key questions: What do I need to know to make the right calls today? How can I know
who is in what state for deal-making before I even pick up the phone or send an email?
Sales Intelligence, one of the first application categories to benefit from socialprise
technology, can help businesses to step beyond these limitations by combining the best
that each of these services has to offer, leveraging advanced technologies to discover
and aggregate all of this information and distill it into a whole that’s far greater than the
sum of its parts.What’s more, Sales Intelligence presents the resulting insights within the
meaningful context of existing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications
and business processes – which is precisely the point of need. Sales Intelligence works
by answering the key questions: What do I need to know to make the right calls today?
How can I know who is in what state for deal-making before I even pick up the phone or
send an email?

6. What you know: casting a wide net for relevant information
To be able to answer these questions a Sales Intelligence application needs first to be
agnostic about where the information may come from to provide the insights that are
needed. Corporate Web sites, traditional media outlets, blogs, enterprise databases and
portals, subscription information services, social networking sites, sales productivity
platforms – all these and more can be potential sources for your Sales Intelligence
application. Capturing this information is not always as easy as making a query on a
structured database or a search engine. Oftentimes the information that you need to
access has to be harvested from unstructured pages of text on a Web site or in an
enterprise document management system. As information is collected it must be
correlated to specific people and organizations for further filtering and analysis. By
casting a wide net across any and all trusted information sources, much deeper and
relevant insights are revealed. All of a sudden anything could be part of a rich global
intelligence database that will have meaningful structure.
Who You Know: Mapping Information to
Behaviors & People
The second key requirement for Sales Intelligence is the ability to map information
sources to the activities and behaviors of individuals and their organizations.
Sophisticated semantic processing of information is an essential component of these
applications. For example, if a company issues a press release on a routine earnings
announcement, what words are there in the document that would indicate “leadership
changes” or “partnerships” – activities that might act as “alerts” to a sales or business
development team that an opportunity or a threat might be developing? Who are the
people associated with those activities? What relationships do you have that can lead
you to those people? The ability to interpret all of this information and organize it into
meaningful categorizations of behaviors relating to specific people and organizations that
are significant to deal-making is far more important than simply categorizing a press
release under a topic such as “earnings reports”.
When You Know: Getting the Right Information
at the Right time
The third key requirement for Sales Intelligence is the ability to deliver insights in a timely
fashion within the applications that people use regularly. Going to multiple Web sites,
search engines, research databases, and enterprise portals to cut and paste together
reports is OUT. Getting the right key insights automatically presented within the right
applications at the right time is IN. The timeliness of this approach relies as much on the
way that information can be organized as the freshness of the information itself. If your
new information can’t easily be presented into the most commonly used applications,
reports, and search results then it’s as good as being old information. The use of
behavior-oriented “alerts” that categorize key business insights and identify highly
relevant personal and company relationships is the starting point for ensuring relevance,
but it takes the right delivery mechanisms as well.

7. Where You Know: Getting the Right Information in
the Right Place
Sales Intelligence brings the “who”, “what” and “when” of your prospects together into
integrated results. Call it a “mashup,” call it meta-aggregation, call it a workflow
application – whatever the label, the effective integration of disparate content sources,
distilled down to actionable insights, and delivered at the point of need is a fundamental
promise of Sales Intelligence.
Comprehensive Key Insight Relationship Filtering
Aggregation Discovery Mapping Tools
Sales
Intelligence Yes Yes Yes Yes
Applications
Subscription Mostly licensed
No Rare Some
Databases content
Search Mostly unlicensed
No No Limited
Engines content
Social
No No Limited Some
Networks
Web sites No No No Limited
Sales
No No Limited Some
Portals
As you can see in the above chart, Sales Intelligence applications deliver a unique blend
of comprehensive and source-agnostic content aggregation, powerful event and insight
analysis that alert you of new business deals, connection mapping that allows you to
leverage personal and company relationships, and powerful filtering capabilities that help
continually prioritize your current revenue generating activities.
Typical business information subscription databases focus largely on selling collections of
licensed content: they may have some useful features available to access that content
but in general they fail to integrate Web, enterprise and user-generated content
effectively. Search engines can be powerful tools to locate basic business or personal
information quickly but they do not provide access to licensed content and lack the ability
to effectively aggregate, analyze, and present information in an actionable format.
Social networking databases are generally strong on relationship mapping but rather thin
on applying that relationship data to broader business opportunities (much less
identifying those events, insights, or opportunities). Going directly to corporate Web sites
can be informative but extremely time intensive and un-scalable, resulting in wasted time
and attention that would be better spent working real opportunities. And CRM and sales

8. force automation (SFA) applications have lots of great tools for storing and sharing
contacts and basic company information for existing deals (pipeline management), but
lack the content aggregation and analysis capabilities needed to discover, prioritize, and
drive new opportunities (pipeline development.)
The result of pulling all of the right information together into Sales Intelligence
applications is the ability to make more deals - and better deals - more quickly than ever
before by discovering the right insights and the right relationships at the right time.
Understanding not only your connections to people but their readiness to hear your story
will let you concentrate on the prospects who are most interested in hearing it. Sales
Intelligence applications hold a lot of promise for sales and marketing professionals, and
will accelerate the efficiency of deal-making as no other business information service has
been able to deliver.
Let’s get back to Bob and see how he’s doing now.
Hmm, looks like Bob got smart – he started using SalesView, the new on-demand Sales
Intelligence application from InsideView. SalesView harvests relevant business
information from subscription databases, enterprise and social media content sources
and mashes them up with his Salesforce.com desktop. Now Bob has fresh and complete
intelligence derived from company information, business connections, breaking news,
and key business events, giving him detailed insights into sales readiness and
relationship networks all in one place. Now every day Bob can automatically find and
prioritize the prospects who are ready for him to make contact. SalesView smart agents
make it easy for him to get the right information at the right time wherever he needs it. His
social network information from LinkedIn and Facebook fits right in, too. He can find the
people who he knows and who his team knows much more easily – all without having to
leave his Salesforce.com desktop.
Bob is calling on the right people at the right time with the right information about what
they need and why they need it. Bob amazes his customers – it seems like he reads their
minds. Bob’s friends are glad that he called them when he did. Bob closes more deals.
Bigger deals. Better deals.
Bob is happy that he tried something new from InsideView.
IV. InsideView: The Pioneer in Sales
Intelligence Applications
Leading organizations that use InsideView have experienced measurable returns on their
investment, enabled by closing the kinds of deals that you’re probably seeking today.
InsideView has helped them gain fresh, complete insights into the agile business
relationships that are essential to their deal flows - more effectively and more efficiently
than any other data aggregation or business information services.
Sales Intelligence, fueled by the Socialprise revolution, represents a very significant trend
towards far greater efficiencies in sales and business development management. Sure,
you’ll probably still pay some of your deal makers to tee up at the golf course now and
again. But with Sales Intelligence applications, like those from InsideView, you’ll find
them spending more time teeing up deals that will pay for those swings around the links.
That’s a trend worth investing in – today.

9. V. About InsideView
InsideView is a Sales 2.0 leader, bringing insights gained from traditional editorial
sources and emerging social media to the enterprise to increase sales productivity and
velocity. The San Francisco-headquartered company was founded in 2005 by pioneers of
the SaaS, Content and CRM industries to take advantage of the convergence of social
media and enterprise applications. InsideView’s unique socialprise technology
intelligently aggregates relevant personal, professional and corporate data in real time
from thousands content sources to uncover new customer engagement opportunities.
InsideView’s Sales 2.0 applications deliver fresh and complete intelligence within CRMs
and to mobile devices to maximize sales productivity and accelerate sales cycles. The
company is privately held and venture-backed by Emergence Capital Partners,
Greenhouse Capital Partners and Rembrandt Venture Partners. InsideView's sales force
automation partners include Landslide Technologies, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com,
and SugarCRM InsideView's customers include Ariba, Borland, IBM, John Hancock,
Omniture and SuccessFactors. For more information, visit www.insideview.com