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Powering your Apps with Data.com (Dreamforce 2011)
1. Secret Sauce: Powering
Your Apps with Data.com
Developers
Deepa Krishnan, Dir. Business Development, salesforce.com
Matthias Zeller, Sr. Dir. Product Management, salesforce.com
Bastien Vidal, COO, Seesmic
2. Agenda
!! Data.com
!! API Overview
!! Contribution API
!! Seesmic
!! ScanBizCards
!! Input/Q&A
3. Why Are Data.com’s APIs Exciting for Developers?
Power Your Apps and Enable
Users With Data Inside
Newly Released Contribution
API Makes It All Easier
Earn Referral and Reseller
Dollars
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5. We Have Data
You Have Ideas
Deepa Krishnan, Director of
Business Development, Data.com
7. The Most Complete Source of Accurate Business Data
Social
Name
Title # of Employees
Phone
Address
SIC/NAICS
Dept
Email Blog
Company Corporate
Name Hierarchy
8. Today, Succeeding in Business Requires Good Data
Top Salesforce
Customer Request
“ “ “ “
Source: MarketTools May 2011
Salesforce Customer Survey
12. The Most Complete Source for Accurate Business Data
Companies
People
13. Jigsaw: The Fastest Growing Business Contact Database
Accurate Contact Data
30 million crowd-sourced contacts
1 million new contacts a month
Socially Powered by the Crowd
2 million community members
40% sharing by corporate customers
•! Target with a Broad Range of Titles
•! Take Action with Real-Time Updates
14. D&B: The Leader in Accurate Company Data
Accurate Company Data
200 million company records
90+ unique elds of information
Leading the Industry for Decades
170 years of business insight
•! Segment with Accurate Company Data
•! Prepare with In-Depth Research
•! Penetrate and Increase Up-Sell and
Cross-Sell with Family Trees
16. Gathering Contact Data from the Crowd is More Effective
Wikipedia Jigsaw
xxx xxx
Millions of Contributors Millions of Social Records
12 million users 2 million members
395 million edits 1 million new contacts a month
20 million articles 12,000 updates a day
17. How it Works: Give to Get
With Jigsaw, points are your currency:
1)! Add or update a business contact (+5 points)
2)! Consume a new contact (- 5 points)
18. The Crowd Partnered with Jigsaw Technology Delivers More
40% of customers share their data
2.0 Million+ members
Users can flag bad data
1.2 Million updates per month
20. Open, Accessible, Free:
API Overview
Matthias Zeller, Senior Director
Product Management,
Data.com
21. Data.com High-level Contribution Overview
Partners
Community Apps
Build PuzzleMaster
Clean Data.com
Platform
Super DeDuper
Pinger
Community
Reaper
Normalizer
22. Data.com API’s
Consume Contribute
API Search/ Report
Get Add
Preview Facts
Entities Contact Company
Free Points
23. Data.com API’s overview
!! Get started for free
–! Request Developer API token (http://developer.jigsaw.com/
home)
–! Review API documentation
(http://developer.jigsaw.com/documentation)
–! Free sandbox allows API testing with dummy data
–! Build and enjoy
!! Technology
–! RESTful JSON API (preferred)
–! RESTful XML API
–! Web Service (WSDL based, company API only)
24. Consume Contribute
Data.com Search Company API Search Get Add
Report
Facts
Contact Company
API Name searchCompany
Input URL, Name, Country, State, Area Code, Zip Code, Metro Area,
Industry, # Employees, Revenue, Updated Since
Output Company ID, Name, Address and # of Active Contacts
Sample https://www.jigsaw.com/rest/searchCompany.xml?
token=<yourtoken>&name=www.salesforce.com
25. Consume Contribute
Data.com Contact Count API Search Get Add
Report
Facts
Contact Company
API Name companyContactCount
Input Company ID
Output Total Contacts, Contacts by Departments, Contacts by Levels
Sample https://www.jigsaw.com/rest/companyContactCount/
159110.xml?token=<yourtoken>
26. Consume Contribute
Data.com Search Contact API Search Get Add
Report
Facts
Contact Company
API Name searchContact
Input Name, Level, Company, Email, Updated Since, Title,
Department, Country, State, Area Code, Zip Code, Metro
Area
Output Preview fields including CompanyID, ContactID, Name,
Title and Company, but NOT Email and Phone Number
Sample 1 http://www.jigsaw.com/rest/searchContact.xml?
token=<yourtoken>&email=mzeller@salesforce.com
Sample 2 https://www.jigsaw.com/rest/searchContact.xml?
token=<yourtoken>&levels=VP&companyName=salesforc
e&pageSize=100&offset=0
27. Consume Contribute
Data.com Get API Search Get Add
Report
Facts
Contact Company
API Name getContact
Input ContactID, UserName, Password
Output All Contact Attributes including CompanyID, ContactID, Name,
Title, Company Name, Email and Phone Number
Requires 5 points in user or partner account
Sample https://www.jigsaw.com/rest/contacts/35037319.xml?
token=<yourtoken>&username=<username>&password=<pas
sword>&purchaseFlag=true
28. PassThrough vs Reseller API usage
!! PassThrough API model
–! Easiest model, start right away
–! Use API’s to access free data (e.g. search)
–! Use end-users Data.com credentials to submit contacts (end-
user gets points) or get contacts (requires points in end-users
account)
!! Reseller API model
–! Requires a reseller agreement
–! End-user does not require Data.com account
–! Buy contacts at wholesale rates and resell them in your app
29. Consume Contribute
Contribute API Search Get Add
Report
Facts
Contact Company
!! Submit company and contact information to Data.com
and receive points
!! Add up to 10 contacts and one company per call
!! Post request - Input data is in JSON
!! Success or detailed error codes returned in JSON or
XML
!! Points are credited to user or partner account
30. Consume Contribute
Contribution API Sample Search Get Add
Report
Facts
Contact Company
Adding a new contact to an existing company:
https://www.jigsaw.com/rest/contribution.xml?
token=<yourtoken>&username=<username>&password=<password>
&data={"contact":[{"email":"mzeller@salesforce.com”,
"firstName":"Matthias","lastName":"Zeller","title":"Sr. Product
Manager”,"phone":"+1.650.241.8760","address":"777 Mariners Island
Blvd Ste 400","zip":"94404-5059”,"country":"USA","city":"San
Mateo","state":"CA"}]}
31. Consume Contribute
Other API’s Search Get Add
Report
Facts
Contact Company
!! Get User Info API
–! Returns the point balance for a specific user
–! Sample: https://www.jigsaw.com/rest/user.xml?
token=<yourtoken>&username=<username>&password=<pass
word>
!! Contact Fact API
–! Submit facts about email addresses or phone numbers of
contacts
–! Typically used to submit results from bounce reports
32. Seesmic and
Data.com: Where
Social Meets Business
Bastien Vidal, COO Seesmic
Deepa Krishnan, Dir. BD
salesforce.com
33. Seesmic and Data.com
!! “Bringing Data.com's powerful functionalities into our
social media management platform gives users a real
tool to convert the social stream into actionable leads.
The Data.com/Seesmic partnership is a practical step
forward in the Social CRM space.”
34. Seesmic CRM Seesmic Social
Finally, Seesmic CRM puts Salesforce Seesmic Social is the leading social
in the palm of your hand. media management platform.
Stay on target with Seesmic CRM for Keep up with your personal and
Salesforce. professional networks, anywhere,
anytime.
Email: contactus@seesmic.com
Website: http://seesmic.com Blog: http://blog.seesmic.com
37. ScanBizCards
Most popular mobile card scanning app. Over 600,000 installs
Jigsaw functionality includes:
•! Scan card and upload to Jigsaw
•! Register and get points for contribution
•! “Clean” company name
•! Bonus: Export to Salesforce CRM
Future:
•! Update contacts
•! “Clean” address book
38. ScanBizCard Workflow
Validate/correct contact info
Scan card
Submit to Jigsaw
New card gets 5 points
39. Code Sample Contribution API – Objective-C
NSMutableString *postData = [NSMutableString string];!
![postData appendFormat:@"token=%@&", JIGSAW_TOKEN];!
![postData appendFormat:@"username=%@&", username];!
![postData appendFormat:@"password=%@&", password];!
!
//contribution api requires "data" parameter to be a dictionary, whose key
"contact" is an array, whose first element is dictionary!
//of all data fields!
!NSArray *contactArray = [NSArray arrayWithObject:contactDict];!
!
!NSDictionary *jsonDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:contactArray
forKey:@"contact"];!
!!
![postData appendFormat:@"data=%@", [jsonDict JSONString]];!
!!
![req setHTTPBody:[postData dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];!
!!
//since we are inside a separate thread already no problem making this a
synchronous request!
NSHTTPURLResponse *resp;!
!NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req
returningResponse:&resp error:nil];!
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