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5 Cool Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with Data.com APIs
Ali Sadat; Sr Director Product Management, Salesforce @alisadat in/alisadatTom Patros; Managing Partner, Red Argyle @tompatros in/tompatros
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Fuel your Sales Cloud with high quality data in 3 steps
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quality data easy and reliable2 Use data to drive
actionable insights and strategy3
PREMIUMDeliver strategic insights and action with advanced data
PROSPECTORGrow faster and sell smarter with reliable, actionable data
The Right Data for the #1 Sales AppGet more from your Sales Cloud investment
CLEANUpdate and enrich your contact, lead, and account records with trusted data
Data.com improves processes across sales and marketing
Prospect and target new accounts
Identify cross-sell and upsell
opportunities
Discover market and customer
trends
Plan and align territories
Enrich leads for scoring and
routing
• Native and on-demand, right in Salesforce
• Automated Clean Jobs match and enrich incomplete records
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Grow faster and sell smarter with reliable, actionable dataData.com Prospector
• Find new customers and expand relationships within accounts, right in Salesforce
• Search for accounts and decision makers, and easily filter results for the most targeted prospects
• Find new contacts within accounts from your mobile device with Data.com Get Contacts for Salesforce1
• Use Prospecting Insights to get deep information on accounts from D&B and topical industry material from Hoover’s
• Dun & Bradstreet company object on leads and accounts for improved routing, scoring, segmentation and reporting
• D-U-N-S numbers on accounts create corporate linkages for easier tracking and record management
• Additional SIC/NAICs identifiers for advanced segmentation and strategic selling
• Prioritize and pre-screen prospects and customers based on Delinquency Risk indicator
• Additional Prospecting Insights content with deeper financial and industry information
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The Flexibility
The Right Data, Anywhere You Need It
• Customize the Salesforce UI
• Create your own UI
• Introduce new logic with great data
• Integrate with other Salesforce apps
• Create your own mobile feature
Search API
Match API
The PossibilitiesGo beyond “out of the box”
• Data.com Clean within sales console• Search Data.com before create• Auto-add contacts upon account import• Selective automated cleaning• On-demand automated cleaning• Custom object integration• Mobile apps• …
Data.com API Availability by Product
Prospector Clean
API Datacloud Object Corporate Premium Corporate Premium
SearchContact
Company
DnBCompany
PurchaseContact
Company
MatchContact
Company
DUNSRight
5 Cool API Use CasesAli Sadat; Sr Director Product Management, Salesforce@alisadat in/alisadat
Tom Patros; Managing Partner, Red Argyle@tompatros in/tompatros
Adding Contacts to Account
Prospect and target new accounts
• Auto-add 1-3 key Contacts to Accounts on create
- Trigger or Manual Button- Contact Title or Level/Dept filter (e.g. VP IT)
• Add 1-2 Contacts to Existing Account List (filtered)
- Custom VF page to select/filter list of Accounts- Contact Title or Level/Dept filter (e.g. VP IT)
Use Cases
Don’t let Sales Reps start with an ‘empty’ record.
● Automatically link Parent / Child Accounts to create Account Hierarchy
- On Account Create, lookup Parent- If in not Account Obj, import Parent- Add Parent Id to Account Record
Import and Link Account Family Members
Identify cross-sell and upsell
opportunities
Use Cases
Visual Account Hierarchy.
Cleaning Leads using Minimal Information
Enrich leads for scoring and
routing
• Manual: Match Me
- “Search By Matching”- Start with a minimum set of fields, make iterative mods
to locate matches
• Automated: Auto-Clean
- Develop a “Best Guess” Algorithm- Execute whenever Leads are created matching minimal
“Best Guess”
Lower accuracy is better than 0% clean with 10-100K Leads.
Use Cases
Contact: Marketing Searches
Prospect and target new accounts
• Use the Search and Purchasing API to perform larger-scale searches for Contacts, purchase those records, and import them into Salesforce for campaign / marketing purposes...
• Build a Campaign with Data.com Contacts
- Search API supports larger-scale search for Companies and Contacts
- Purchasing API allows Contacts to be pulled into Salesforce en masse
- APIs mitigate “repurchasing” existing Contacts- Actions can be completed relative to a SF Campaign
Prospect directly through the Data.com API!
Use Cases
Appending HQ Information to Branch Locations
Plan and align territories
1. When Location=Branch, Lookup Parent and append DUNS, Employee, and Revenue
2. Add Key Contacts for the Account- Using Search API w/above Company Id and customer filter
on Title and/or Dept/Level
Use Cases
Account Information at Desired Level.
The PossibilitiesGo beyond “out of the box”
• Data.com Clean within sales console• Search Data.com before create• Auto-add contacts upon account import• Selective automated cleaning• On-demand automated cleaning• Custom object integration• Mobile apps• …
Data.com API Resources
● Developer Reference Documentation
● Lead Company Append Example
● Get inspiration from App Showcase
Q&AAli Sadat; Sr Director Product Management, Salesforce@alisadat in/alisadat
Tom Patros; Managing Partner, Red Argyle@tompatros in/tompatros
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