Cool private companies: 3 business services for doing more with less
As a software securities analyst for investment banking firm Canaccord Genuity, Richard Davis spends 200 days a year on the road visiting companies. He goes to public companies such as Oracle and Salesforce.com, but he also visits up-and-coming software companies he thinks will go public in the near future. In his new column, Davis talks about some candidates he thinks may be ripe for the IPO class of 2012 or 2013.
Xactly Corporation: Compensation management
Bunchball gamifies Salesforce.com and launches game widgets
Bunchball is trying to “gamify” every web site in the world via tools that make sites more game-like. Its new Nitro for Salesforce.com uses game-like rewards to motivate salespeople, driving up adoption, engagement and performance among sales employees.
Nitro integrates with Force.com and is scalable and customizable. Nitro has more than 100 customers with millions of users, but the Salesforce.com integration is a coup because it is a high-profile cloud-based enterprise service with more than … Continue Reading
Spigit offers social media platform for company contests
Bunchball is trying to “gamify” every web site in the world via tools that make sites more game-like. Its new Nitro for Salesforce.com uses game-like rewards to motivate salespeople, driving up adoption, engagement and performance among sales employees.
Nitro integrates with Force.com and is scalable and customizable. Nitro has more than 100 customers with millions of users, but the Salesforce.com integration is a coup because it is a high-profile cloud-based enterprise service with more than … Continue Reading
