DataFox Sunset? Get Your Premier Account Intelligence from SalesIntel

The B2B sales and marketing landscape is in constant flux, and the tools that support revenue teams must not only keep pace but anticipate future needs. While Oracle’s DataFox was once a go-to solution for account and supplier intelligence, its sunset on August 31, 2023, marked a significant shift. Now, well into 2025, many organizations that relied on DataFox are still navigating the aftershocks, continuing to feel the void left by its discontinuation and actively searching for a truly comprehensive replacement to power their go-to-market strategies and procurement decisions.

If your organization is among those still grappling with the challenge of finding powerful DataFox alternatives or a robust DataFox competitor that truly meets your evolving needs, this is a critical juncture. It’s not just about filling a gap; it’s an opportunity to significantly upgrade your intelligence capabilities. For businesses that made a switch from DataFox or are still seeking the right path forward, SalesIntel has consistently proven itself as the leading solution, ready to empower your teams with the comprehensive, accurate, and actionable account intelligence essential in today’s demanding market.

The Indispensable Role of Account Intelligence in Modern B2B Success

In today’s fiercely competitive B2B environment, winging it is not an option. Account intelligence – the process of collecting and analyzing in-depth information about existing and potential customers – is the bedrock of successful sales and marketing strategies. It’s about understanding your prospects and customers on a granular level: their business needs, pain points, organizational structure, technology stack, buying signals, and even their competitive landscape.

Effective account intelligence allows B2B teams to:

Identify and Prioritize Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs): Focus sales and marketing efforts on accounts that are most likely to convert and provide long-term value.
Personalize Outreach at Scale: Craft highly relevant messaging that resonates with specific pain points and business contexts, dramatically increasing engagement rates.
Shorten Sales Cycles: Equip sales reps with the insights needed to navigate complex buying committees and address objections proactively.
Improve Customer Retention: Understand customer needs better to offer proactive solutions and identify upsell/cross-sell opportunities.
Enhance Strategic Planning: Make data-driven decisions about market segmentation, product development, and resource allocation.

As Udi Ledergor, Chief Evangelist at Gong, said on – The Pipeline Pioneers podcast,

“It’s all about engaging the 95%.”

That 95% refers to the majority of your market not actively in a buying cycle. Account intelligence, especially with intent data, helps you engage them meaningfully, early, and at scale.

However, the power of account intelligence hinges entirely on the quality of the underlying data. This is where many businesses, and potentially former DataFox users, face significant challenges.

The Perils of Outdated and Inaccurate Data: A Common B2B Nightmare

Email marketing databases naturally degrade by about 22.5% every year.

Employees change roles, companies get acquired, new technologies are adopted, and business priorities shift. Relying on outdated or inaccurate data can have severe consequences:

Wasted Resources:
Sales reps chasing phantom leads or marketing teams targeting irrelevant contacts burn valuable time and budget.

Before partnering with SalesIntel, OppGen faced a major challenge with high email bounce rates, reaching up to 40%, despite using a premium data provider like ZoomInfo. These inaccurate contacts forced them to rely on third-party scrubbing services, adding to their operational costs and delaying campaign execution. The constant need to clean data, request refunds, and validate contacts not only drained time and resources but also made it difficult to scale outreach confidently, especially for niche audiences.

Damaged Sender Reputation:
High bounce rates and low engagement from sending emails to incorrect addresses can lead to your domain being flagged as spam, impacting future deliverability.
Missed Opportunities:
Inaccurate data means you might overlook prime prospects who are actively in-market for your solution simply because your intelligence platform didn’t capture the right signals.
Poor Decision-Making:
Flawed data leads to flawed insights, which in turn leads to misguided strategies and missed revenue targets.

For users transitioning from DataFox, ensuring their new DataFox account intelligence provider can overcome these challenges is paramount. This is where SalesIntel sets a new standard.

SalesIntel: Your Go-To DataFox Alternative for Superior Intelligence

SalesIntel is not just another B2B data provider; it’s a comprehensive account intelligence platform meticulously designed to fuel revenue growth. Built on a foundation of industry-leading data accuracy and depth, SalesIntel offers a suite of tools that empower sales and marketing teams to find, understand, and engage their ideal customers more effectively than ever before.

Unmatched Data Accuracy: The SalesIntel Commitment

At the core of SalesIntel’s offering is an unwavering commitment to data accuracy. Unlike platforms that rely solely on AI and algorithms, which can often perpetuate errors, SalesIntel employs a powerful combination of technology and a 2,000+ human research team.

Human Verification:
Every single contact in the SalesIntel database is human-verified, ensuring you get reliable direct dials, email addresses, and company information.
90-Day Re-Verification Cycle:
B2B data freshness is critical. SalesIntel re-verifies its data every 90 days, a rigorous process that dramatically minimizes data decay and ensures you’re working with the most current information available. This stands in contrast to platforms where data update cycles can be less frequent or transparent.

Deep Technographic Insights: Understand Your Prospect’s Tech Stack

Knowing what technologies a company uses (and doesn’t use) is crucial for targeted selling, especially for SaaS and technology companies. While DataFox offered some level of technographic data, it was often reported as basic “yes/no” information. SalesIntel provides far more granular technographic insights. On the other hand, SalesIntel has >37k technographic data points.

Comprehensive Tech Stack Data:
Identify specific software and hardware products your target accounts have installed, including version details where available.
Identify Competitive Opportunities:
Pinpoint companies using competitor solutions, especially outdated versions, creating prime opportunities for displacement campaigns.
Discover Integration Potential:
Find accounts using complementary technologies where your solution can add significant value.

Fortra’s journey with SalesIntel showcases the power of accurate data, real-time buyer intent, and seamless automation in transforming outbound sales strategies. By eliminating manual prospecting inefficiencies and equipping sales teams with instant access to high-quality intelligence, Fortra not only optimized its pipeline but also secured a stronger foothold in the competitive cybersecurity market.

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Actionable Buyer Intent Data: Know Who’s Ready to Buy

Timing is everything in sales. Reaching out to a prospect when they are actively researching solutions like yours drastically increases the likelihood of engagement and conversion.

Or as Sangram Vajre, CEO and Co-Founder of GTM Partners, puts it,

“The money is in the follow-up.”
With intent data, follow-up is no longer guesswork. It’s precision engagement when interest is at its peak.

SalesIntel provides robust buyer intent data, signaling which accounts are in-market.

Identify Surging Interest:
Track companies actively researching topics and keywords relevant to your products or services across the web.
Prioritize Hot Leads:
Focus your sales efforts on accounts demonstrating clear buying signals, rather than casting a wide, untargeted net.
Personalize Based on Interest:
Tailor your outreach based on the specific intent signals an account is showing. For example, if a company is researching “CRM integration challenges,” your message can directly address how your solution solves those.

Rich Firmographics & Company Intelligence: The Full Picture

Beyond contacts and specific signals, SalesIntel provides deep firmographic data and ongoing company intelligence to give you a 360-degree view of your target accounts.

Detailed Company Profiles:
Access information on company size, revenue, industry (including SIC/NAICS codes), location, funding rounds, employee counts, and growth trends.
News & Alerts:
Stay informed about significant events happening at your target accounts, such as new hires (especially in leadership), M&A activity, product launches, or financial announcements. These can all serve as powerful sales triggers.
Organizational Charts:
Understand the hierarchy and identify key decision-makers within target departments.

This comprehensive view is critical not only for sales and marketing but also for those who used DataFox supplier intelligence. While SalesIntel’s primary focus is on go-to-market intelligence, its rich dataset on companies can be invaluable for assessing potential suppliers.

Understanding a supplier’s technological adoption, recent news (which might indicate stability or risk), and overall market presence can inform procurement decisions. For instance, if you’re evaluating a software vendor, knowing their tech stack (via SalesIntel’s technographics) can indicate their level of innovation or potential integration compatibility.

Making the Switch from DataFox: Why SalesIntel is the Smart Choice

For former DataFox users, the transition to a new platform needs to be seamless and deliver immediate value. SalesIntel is designed for easy adoption and powerful results.

Focus on Quality Over Quantity (Though We Have Quantity Too!):
While some platforms boast massive, unverified databases, SalesIntel prioritizes the accuracy and completeness of its human-verified data, ensuring your teams work with intelligence they can trust.
Beyond Basic Data Points:
DataFox users looking for more than surface-level information will appreciate SalesIntel’s depth in technographics and intent data, which provides a more nuanced understanding of accounts. Where DataFox might have told you if a company used a technology, SalesIntel aims to tell you which technologies and how strong their buying signals are for your solutions.
Continuous Innovation:
SalesIntel is committed to evolving its platform, incorporating new data sources, and enhancing its features to meet the ever-changing needs of B2B revenue teams.
Dedicated Support:
SalesIntel is known for its excellent customer support, helping you get the most out of the platform and integrate it smoothly into your existing workflows.

Seamless Integration for Uninterrupted Workflows

Account intelligence data is most powerful when it’s readily accessible within the tools your sales and marketing teams use every day. SalesIntel offers robust integrations with leading CRM and sales engagement platforms, including:

Salesforce
HubSpot
Marketo
SalesLoft
Outreach
And many more…

These integrations ensure that the rich data from SalesIntel can be used to enrich your existing records, automate workflows, and empower your teams directly within their preferred environments. This eliminates manual data entry, reduces errors, and ensures that your single source of truth for customer data is always up-to-date and actionable.

Real-World Success: B2B Companies with SalesIntel

“We actually took a look at many data providers, big and small… and we did a full-month test across all of them to really narrow down which one was the best for us.” – Gabe Lullo, CEO of Alleyoop.

“We chose SalesIntel as a partner two years ago. And it’s been an incredible partnership since.”

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Here’s how Alleyoop embedded SalesIntel into their workflow:

A Daily Stream of Enriched, Verified Data

SalesIntel data is automatically ingested and enriched into Alleyoop’s systems every single day. This ensures their SDRs are always working with the most accurate contact and company insights available.

Enhanced Campaign Execution at Scale

Once enriched, this data feeds directly into SDR sequencing tools, powering millions of calls annually across 110+ campaigns. All with confidence in accuracy and compliance.

Confidence Through Human Verification

One of the core reasons Alleyoop continues to partner with SalesIntel is the commitment to human-verified data. For a company that relies on high-connect campaigns, data accuracy isn’t optional, it’s non-negotiable.

Responsive, Collaborative Support

Even as Alleyoop scaled, the level of support they received from SalesIntel never dropped. The SalesIntel team worked side-by-side with Alleyoop to think creatively, solve problems, and keep campaign performance high.

The Future of Account Intelligence is Here

The discontinuation of Oracle DataFox doesn’t have to be a setback for your business. Instead, view it as an invitation to elevate your account intelligence strategy. In a world where data is the new oil, SalesIntel provides the refinery, transforming raw information into the high-octane fuel your revenue engine needs.

If you’re looking for Datafox alternatives that offer truly comprehensive, human-verified data, deep technographic and firmographic insights, and actionable buyer intent signals, it’s time to explore SalesIntel. Don’t just replace DataFox; upgrade your capabilities and empower your teams to discover, connect with, and win more of your ideal customers.

Stop relying on stale data or surface-level insights. Switch to SalesIntel and experience the difference that premier account intelligence can make.

Ready to see SalesIntel in action and understand how it can replace and surpass your DataFox setup?