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Daojia.com.cn Acquired By Pizza Hut's Parent Company
The U.S.-based owner of Pizza Hut and KFC is buying a Chinese food delivery company.
Yum China Holdings Inc, backed by Chinese private equity firm Primavera Capital Group and Alibaba-linked Ant Financial Services Group, has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in online food delivery company Daojia.com.cn to better serve its Pizza Hut and KFC customers.
China Money Network reports that no financial details were disclosed, but the deal is expected to be completed by the end of May 2017.
Founded in 2010, Daojia.com.cn is an online food delivery service provider focused on higher-end orders in major cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. It also operates food delivery service Sherpa’s, and has partnered with over 6,000 brands and restaurants, providing services for over one million family customers.
Daojia.com.cn previously raised a US$ 2 million series A round from Morningside Venture Capital in 2010. It secured a US$ 7.5 million series B round from CDH Investments in 2011, and completed a US$ 10 million series C round led by JD.com Inc and Morningside in 2013. In 2014, the company received a US$ 50 million series D round led by JD.com and Macquarie Group Ltd, according to its website.
How to Increase the Number of Child Cases a Parent Case Can Have
Have you ever needed to be able to associate more than the default number of child cases that a parent case can have in CRM? Out-of-the-box CRM allows for a parent case to have up to 100 child cases, but in today’s blog, we’ll show you how to increase that when necessary.
NOTE: This solution will only work in an on-premises environment.
While the DBSettings tool, available from CodePlex, won’t let you configure, it does let you make some pretty cool changes in a CRM Online environment and we’d strongly encourage you to check it out!
Many settings like this appear in the MSCRM_CONFIG database. Here is a SQL script that searches any database for a string:
- declare @TableName char(256)
- declare @ColumnName char(256)
- declare @FindString char(256)
- declare @sql char(8000)
/*Replace X with character(s) you which to find and Y with its replacement*/ set @FindString = 'STRING' /*select o.name, c.name from syscolumns c inner join sysobjects o on o.id = c.id where o.xtype = 'U'*/ declare T_cursor cursor for select o.name, c.name from sysobjects o inner join syscolumns c on o.id = c.id where o.xtype = 'U' and c.xtype in (175,239,99,231,35,167) open T_cursor fetch next from T_cursor into @TableName, @ColumnName while (@@fetch_status <> -1) begin set @sql = 'if exists (select * from ' + rtrim(@TableName) + ' where ' + rtrim(@ColumnName) + ' like ''%' + rtrim(@FindString) + '%'') begin print ''Table = ' + rtrim(@TableName) + ' Column = ' + rtrim(@ColumnName) + ''' end' exec(@sql) fetch next from T_cursor into @TableName, @ColumnName end close T_cursor deallocate T_cursor
To use the script, replace the word STRING with the word you want to find. You’ll also want to add a USE statement to the beginning of the script or change the context of the database that you are running this against in the SQL Management Studio.
When the script finished, it will return a column in the OrganizationProperties table called MaxChildIncidentNumber. Keep in mind that the settings held in this table appear on a per-organization basis, so the script below will update every organization if run as-is.
UPDATE OrganizationProperties SET IntColumn = /* Number of cases you want a parent to be able to have*/ WHERE ColumnName = 'MaxChildIncidentNumber'
When you run the script, perform an IIS reset, and the change will have taken effect!
We’re always writing great technical blogs here at PowerObjects for fun projects like this! Check out these fun reads next:
Happy CRM’ing!
Experian offloads Hitwise and Simmons consumer data businesses to Connexity and parent firm for $47M
Connexity, the Los Angeles-based marketing services company behind a number of popular shopping portals such as price-comparison website Shopzilla, has acquired Hitwise from Experian.
For the uninitiated, Hitwise is a tool to help marketers measure consumer behavior across multiple devices, covering trends in online search, competitor profiling, market share, and more. The product was initially launched out of Australia in 1997, and was acquired by Experian ten years later.
Connexity is perhaps better known for its former name — Shopzilla Inc, which was once one of the leading price-comparison websites. It was acquired by media company Scripps in 2005, though Scripps subsequently sold Shopzilla on to a private equity firm called Symphony Technology Group (STG) in 2011. Shopzilla Inc. rebranded as Connexity last September, a move that signaled a change in direction for the company away from ecommerce and into technology-based marketing services. The Shopzilla brand still lives on, however, through the price-comparison website that’s still active.
From VentureBeat
Connexity has now acquired three notable companies in recent times — PriceGrabber, back in June; and Become.com six months earlier. One of Hitwise’s big appeals for Connexity was AudienceView, a tool for marketing planning and audience segmentation. Once integrated with Connexity, this could help retailers compare preferences, demographics, and general online activity of customers who visit brick-and-mortar stores, with those that shop online.
The triumvirate of acquisitions helps Connexity not only offer more data around online consumer trends — Hitwise will feed into its existing cost-per-click (CPC) marketplace — but it also helps the company expand its global presence and procure new customers.
“Hitwise’s shift from website analytics to audience-based analytics aligns perfectly with our audience activation approach at Connexity, which is focused on delivering highly-targeted audiences created from our expansive shopping network,” explained Bill Glass, CEO of Connexity. “The combination of AudienceView’s clickstream and panel-based data with Connexity’s programmatic audience targeting will enable our customers to research, understand and identify their target audiences, and their behaviors, and eventually, in the same interface activate those audiences.”
In a separate deal announced today, Connexity’s parent company, STG, acquired another of Experian’s assets. Simmons was Experian’s arm that publishes the National Consumer Study (NCS), a U.S.-based research database. Together, Simmons and Hitwise operated under “Experian Consumer Insights,” and the two businesses will continue for now as a single entity, but Connexity and STG aim to separate the products some time in 2016.
While the Connexity or STG didn’t break the value of the deal down, it did say that the aggregate of both transactions was worth $ 47 million. This could rise by another $ 5 million depending on the future performance of the business.
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