[May 13, 2013] G2 Crowd to Release Grid to Rate CRM and Marketing Automation Software Tweet May 13, 2013 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- G2 Crowd announced the impending release of the Grids for CRM and Marketing Automation. In a release, the Company noted that the Grid is scheduled for release on June 1. "The new G2 Crowd rating system is a radical departure from typical software review services," said Godard Abel, cofounder and CEO of G2 Crowd. "Traditionally, ratings were based on only one analyst's opinion. Our Grids leverage more than 15,000 user ratings and reviews already shared by our community since our beta launch in February. We are finding a pent-up demand for a single source of truth on enterprise software." The Grid ratings generate algorithmically in real time based on big data captured from peer reviews and social signals. These social signals measure and analyze how the reviewed products are doing based on the strength of their online presence Twitter followers, web traffic trends, Klout score, sentiment, and employees on LinkedIn. The main weight of the ratings, however, will come from reviews written by users, who have insight into the actual functionality and performance of these programs. Additional user ratings and reviews submitted on or before May 30 will determine the final Grid rankings. G2 Crowd is a site for business software reviews. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]