Freeland, whose resignation from San Francisco-based Salesforce.com was announced Sept. 28, joins IRI as the companys president and CEO. Prior to his two-year stint at Salesforce.com, Freeland was Accentures global managing partner, leading its CRM (customer relationship management) practice. While at Accenture, Freeland was instrumental in leading the system integrators embrace of Salesforce.coms on-demand model, a move that led a number of enterprise companies to consider and adopt Salesforce.coms technology.

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