Salesforce will soon be announcing the end of a partnership with Data.com. Salesforce acquired Data.com (previously known as Jigsaw), the crowd-sourced data provider, back in 2010 but the relationship has been rocky from the beginning. Salesforce support chat has mentioned that they will continue to sell data.com until August of 2017 but the partnership will end in August of 2018. It is unclear why the relationship is dissolving but we have some insight as to what could have been the cause of the break-up. Inaccurate Crowd-Sourced Data Data.com's business model is highly dependent on users adding, exchanging and [rread more...]