{"id":1876,"date":"2012-09-13T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2012-09-13T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T00:13:07","slug":"a-look-at-datahug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/a-look-at-datahug\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look at Datahug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Datahug\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/avE3d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some say that business is all about who you know.\u00a0 Most of us can\u2019t say that we haven\u2019t had some help along the way, whether it\u2019s been an introduction to the right person or a reference from someone admirable.\u00a0 Knowing the right person may not be the only way to do business, but no one will deny that it certainly helps the process go smoother.\u00a0 These \u201cwarm connections\u201d can be the difference between getting the sale or walking away empty handed.\u00a0 What if there was a way to make every connection a \u201cwarm\u201d one?\u00a0 That is exactly what founders Ray Smith and Connor Murphy had in mind when they created Datahug.\u00a0 Datahug, in their own words, is \u201can innovative\u00a0<strong>Automated Relationship Intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0platform that analyses corporate communication traffic to build a professional network of all relationships connected to your company.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, it\u2019s a \u201cwho knows who\u201d tracking system that helps get you in touch with the right people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3dbQLihdRQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Datahug takes information through various sources to determine who you are close to and builds a network from it.\u00a0 Pulling from your contacts, email, and calendar, it uses its relationship engine to find who you know the best and who you are merely acquaintances with.\u00a0 Reading just the header information of emails it can find out who has meeting with whom, and pass that info to others in the company who are searching for an in.<\/p>\n<p>Some of this may come off as invasive, but Datahug takes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datahug.com\/Overview\/Privacy\">privacy<\/a> very seriously.\u00a0 Their software won\u2019t go through the email except for the header information it needs, and you have complete control over which connections of yours are shared with your coworkers.\u00a0 Say you have a business relationship that you know would be harmed if others were to use you as an intermediary, simply make that contact private, and no one will see it. Unlike most social networks people use without care, this information is kept strictly within your network, not out in the open, and won\u2019t be shared with the outside world.\u00a0 In fact, your profile is set to private by default, and users on your network can\u2019t see anything until you change it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_vVjWPgTqYE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you search for a company on Datahug and select it, it pulls up all the connections your network has to it, but it also shows how strong those connections are.\u00a0 This is where the relationship engine really shows its genius.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t just base it on one email, but the frequency of contacts, and builds a rank or strength of connection.\u00a0 This technology gives leverage to a company that no other product really can give on such a massive scale.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that Datahug has won <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datahug.com\/About\/Media\">several<\/a> awards since their launch in 2009, including the \u201cTechnology Startup of the Year\u201d in 2010 and the Maples &amp; Calder \u201cSpark of Genius\u201d award.\u00a0 If you are wanting that edge over your competition, or are struggling to get those sales, look no further.\u00a0 You can read more about Datahug on their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datahug.com\/\">www.Datahug.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve just learned that Datahug will be in the Plantronics booth at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/dreamforce\/DF12\/\">Dreamforce<\/a> next week (9\/18-9\/21) in booth <strong>#1550<\/strong>. \u00a0If you attend, make sure to swing by and check them out first hand!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some say that business is all about who you know.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[760,761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}