During Monday’s Morning trade, Shares of salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), lost -1.89% to $ 74.17.
Salesforce, declared a new integration between Desk.com and SalesforceIQ that delivers smarter customer service and sales for SMBs. Now, Desk.com, the all-in-one customer service app for fast-growing companies, and SalesforceIQ for Small Business, the easy, proactive and smart sales solution that provides an intelligent way for SMBs to close more deals, are coming together to supercharge service and sales teams.
Now, more than ever, customers expect companies to deliver fast and personalized experiences to across every channel and at any time. But, nearly 80 percent of SMBs aren’t equipped to meet the needs of customers because they aren’t connecting their essential business apps.SMB teams often have a siloed view of the customer, resulting in missed growth opportunities for the company.
By bringing together Desk.com and SalesforceIQ, Salesforce is not only breaking down the barriers between service and sales teams to provide a unified view of the customer, but also giving SMBs the power of Relationship Intelligence to grow their businesses. Relationship Intelligence from SalesforceIQ leverages data science to automatically capture, analyze and surface information that is relevant for customer relationships from email, calendars and more. It seeks out the patterns needed to provide insights into future outcomes and proactively recommends actions to build stronger relationships with customers. Relationship Intelligence sets a new standard for sales solutions with SalesforceIQ, and will deliver new breakthroughs for service organizations.
salesforce.com, inc. provides enterprise cloud computing solutions, with a focus on customer relationship administration to various businesses and industries worldwide. The company offers enterprise cloud computing apps and platform services, counting Sales Cloud for sales force automation, which enables companies to store data, access accurate customer and prospect information, track leads and progress, forecast opportunities, and collaborate around any sale on desktop and mobile devices; Service Cloud that enables companies to connect address customers service and support needs; and Marketing Cloud, which enables companies to map customer journeys to digital marketing interactions through email, mobile, social, Web, and connected products.
Shares of Paycom Software Inc (NYSE:PAYC), inclined 1.78% to $41.77, during its current trading session.
Paycom Software, declared the pricing of the underwritten secondary offering (the “Offering”) of 4,500,000 shares of its common stock by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe X, L.P., WCAS Capital Partners IV, L.P. and WCAS Administration Corporation (collectively, “WCAS”), certain of Paycom’s executive officers and certain other selling stockholders (collectively, the “Selling Stockholders”). The price to the public in the Offering is $42.15 per share. Certain of the Selling Stockholders have also granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 675,000 shares, solely to cover overallotments. Barclays is acting as the sole underwriter for the Offering. The Offering is predictable to close on or about November 18, 2015, subject to customary closing conditions. Paycom will not receive any proceeds from the Offering.
Paycom Software, Inc. offers cloud-based human capital administration (HCM) software solutions delivered as Softwareas-a-Service in the United States. It provides functionality and data analytics that businesses need to manage the complete employment life cycle from recruitment to retirement.
Finally, Shares of Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE:PM), gained 0.87%, and is now trading at $84.12.
Philip Morris International Inc., is recognized as a leading global business taking proactive steps to address climate change and reduce its carbon footprint. The company is named as the only consumer staples company in the S&P 500 on both the CDP Climate “A” List for top performers and the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI) for quality and transparency of reporting. The 100% score for carbon disclosure is the highest ever recognition PMI has received in the annual CDP ratings.
CDP, formerly known as the “Carbon Disclosure Project” is the leading international not-for-profit organization assessing the work of thousands of companies worldwide in the area of climate change. PMI is recognized on the CDP Climate “A” List in their Global Climate Performance Leader Report, released on November 4, for top performance in measuring, verifying, managing and reducing our carbon footprint. The company also earned its leading place on the CDLI by disclosing high quality carbon emissions and energy data for 2014 through CDP’s climate change program. The CDP assessment is compiled at the request of 822 investors who represent US$95 trillion in assets -more than a third of the world’s invested capital.
“We are delighted to make the CDP Climate Disclosure Leadership Index for the S&P 500 and to be recognized as a top performer on CDP’s Climate “A” list. This demonstrates the hard work and commitment across PMI, setting tough targets and doing what it takes to achieve and exceed them. As we prepare to join government leaders in Paris later this month at COP21, the UN Climate Change conference, the CDP results demonstrate that businesses like PMI are playing their part to mitigate and adapt to climate change,” said Andrew Harrop, Head of Environmental Sustainability at PMI.
Philip Morris International Inc., through its auxiliaries, manufactures and sells cigarettes, other tobacco products, and other nicotine-containing products. Its portfolio of brands comprise Marlboro, Merit, Parliament, Virginia Slims, L&M, Chesterfield, Bond Street, Lark, Muratti, Next, Philip Morris, and Red & White.