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Corporate Visions, a provider of marketing and sales messaging and training, has acquired Launch International, a communications company specializing in marketing and sales enablement content.

This deal further enhances Corporate Visions’ customer conversation system and expands its position as a provider of consulting, content and training products and services to help companies improve their selling conversations.

InsideView, a CRM Intelligence platform, announced that it is introducing new collaborative capabilities to Microsoft Dynamics through its Insights application. The new features are designed to enhance the efficiency of communication and collaboration among work teams by allowing users to post articles and events to Yammer feeds without having to switch applications.

InsideView partnered with Microsoft Dynamics CRM last year, providing users with company and contact information, professional connections and relevant news and social insights.

Autopilot, a marketing automation platform, announced the launch of its CoPilot email sales automation tool. The new solution is designed to help companies easily find and engage their prospects using automated email flows.

The service aims to remove all of the manual tasks that sales development teams often spend much of their days on and automatically engages prospective clients through automated outbound campaigns.

Oracle Corporation announced that fiscal Q4 2014 revenues were up 3% to $11.3 billion, while software and cloud revenues were up 4% to $8.9 billion. In addition, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) revenues were up 13% to $128 million. New software licenses revenues were unchanged at $3.8 billion. Software license updates and product support revenues were up 7% to $4.7 billion.

For fiscal year 2014, total revenues were up 3% at $38.3 billion, while cloud IaaS revenues were $456 million. New software licenses revenues were unchanged at $9.4 billion, while software license updates and product support revenues were up 6% to $18.2 billion.

SIM Partners, a local and social marketing automation SaaS technology provider, raised $8 million in Series A funding to further develop its Velocity platform.

Velocity is designed to maximize an enterprise brand’s social, search and mobile reach at a location level through automation and scalability. The Saas solution uses data, context and conversions to deliver quantifiable results.