Hi!
In Salesforce we currently have the ability to send email external email alerts from a workflow.
We can set up the criteria/trigger such as Account Name contains ____________ and Account created equals __________ . When a Company Record matches this criteria an email is then sent to the specified external email addresses with information pertaining to this event.
For example: We work with a Franchisor and they want to know each time a Franchisee creates a new account with us. We set up the criteria to pull in the new account for that particular Franchise group and then the emails fires each time one of these accounts are created giving the Franchisor information such as the account name, day of sign up, etc.