Salesforce Takes Social Marketing Into the Cloud

Combines all-in-one platform with CRM

When Salesforce acquired social marketing software company Buddy Media in June for $689 million, the CRM giant’s execs said the resulting Salesforce Marketing Cloud—merging Buddy and Salesforce-owned social analytics firm Radian6—would result in the company’s fourth billion-dollar business. At Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference today, the company’s chairman and CEO Marc Benioff will provide attendees with a peek at what that business looks like.

While the Buddy Media acquisition only closed in mid-August, Buddy Media’s and Radian6’s technologies have already been integrated to the point of launching a unified social marketing suite.

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