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Nick Thomson

Praveen Upadhyay

Ian Carl Legler

Elliot Stephenson Lewis

Andriy Smertin

Wayne Parker, Iii

Ajith Kumar Gande

Manisha Powar

Nick Patrick

Oleksiy Vlasenko

Maya Widyasari

Xiaodond La

Craig Austin

Karin Zimprich

A post is generated that identifies different types of activity in a computer system, such as changes to the data in the computer system. The post is generated in a language-neutral way. An activity feed generator generates a language-specific post and distributes it, in an activity feed, to a set of users, based on user preferences. The activity feed generator can also access a security model so that only users with sufficient privileges receive the post in their activity feed.

Automatic language sensitive, event based activity feeds

An automated contact import module enables users to select groups of contacts to import from an email, contact management, scheduling (ECS) application based on viewing contacts by category, organization, email domain, and similar attributes. Contacts in selected groups are imported to a CRM application with automatic data mapping. Communication history may be part of the import process by searching previously indexed emails, appointments, and comparable data associated with the selected contacts effectively creating a data hierarchy at the CRM application.

Automatically creating data hierarchy in CRM applications based on imported contact data

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