Jigsaw Wins CRM Magazine Rising Star Award for 2009

Jigsaw, the world leader in Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced it has won the CRM Rising Star Award for 2009 from CRM magazine, the leading publication in the customer relations management industry. The prestigious award recognizes companies that are paving the way in emerging markets with innovative product launches, bold initiatives, or substantial organizational or product-line restructuring. This year, Jigsaw has been recognized for its achievements including its innovative work with Jigsaw Data Fusion and DaaS which provides enterprises with fully managed business contact data, alleviating them of the pain of having to procure and manage their own data.

“It’s a tremendous honor to receive this recognition from such a significant publication in the CRM industry,” said Jim Fowler, CEO of Jigsaw. “We’ve always believed that our work in developing Data Fusion and Data as a Service has been groundbreaking for CRM and we’re very happy that the top industry leaders agree.”

Jigsaw which recently announced profitability has been doubling its revenue year-over-year for the past four years in a row. The company has built the world’s largest user-generated database of complete, updated business directory information by engaging its community of over one million business members. In addition to direct sales to customers, Jigsaw generates revenue from over 30 licensing deals with partners like Alibaba.com, D&B, Lexis Nexis, Marketo, Forbes.com and Basho. Its service, Jigsaw Data Fusion is the first cloud-based, automated system for acquiring and managing new sales prospect records for CRM and marketing automation systems, including Salesforce CRM.

“To stay competitive in a challenging economy, companies must come up with innovative ways to improve their customer relationship efforts. This is exactly what the recipients of the 2009 CRM Market Awards have done,” said David Myron, CRM magazine’s editorial director. “Congratulations to this year’s award recipients for their achievements over the last year. May their CRM efforts continue to succeed.”

Award recipients were determined through an extensive three-month process and proprietary rating formula that involves industry analysts, financial and corporate information, product and functionality assessments, and scores reflecting customer satisfaction.

Jigsaw was also the recipient of the SIIA CODiE Award for Best Productivity Solutions 2008, and listed in Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Who’s Who 2008.

About Jigsaw

Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com) is a leading provider of business information and data services that uniquely leverages user-generated content contributed by its global business-to-business community of 900,000 members. Jigsaw gives individuals and companies access to contact information for 15 million business people and profiles of 2.6 million companies. In addition to delivering low-cost and easy access to high-value business information for sales, marketing, recruiting and customer service, Jigsaw provides companies with cloud-based data acquisition and management services. Founded in 2004, Jigsaw is located in San Mateo, Calif. and funded by Austin Ventures, El Dorado Ventures, and Norwest Venture Partners.

About CRM magazine

CRM magazine is the leading publication of the customer relationship management industry, covering sales, marketing, customer service, and strategy. The magazine also administers and hosts the annual CRM Evolution conference. Each of these properties is designed to serve customer-centric business initiatives, and leaders who recognize CRM as a key strategy for creating enhanced customer value in any industry. For more information about the magazine, its editorial calendar, or CRM in general, please visit us on the Web at http://www.destinationCRM.com, or on Twitter at @CRM (http://twitter.com/CRM) and @destinationCRM (http://twitter.com/destinationCRM). The destinationCRM Web site (which is updated daily) and the monthly magazine are properties of CRM Media, a division of Information Today, Inc.
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