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Sales Force Automation

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ALSO CALLED: SFA
DEFINITION: Sales force automation (SFA) software is a type of program that automates business tasks such as inventory control, sales processing, and tracking of customer interactions, as well as analyzing sales forecasts and performance. Businesses may have a custom version developed specifically for their needs, or choose from among the increasing number of sales automation software products, such as Interact  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Sales Force Automation
Presentation Transcript: Drive Sales Performance: Keys to Preparing Your Reps for Today's Sales Environment
sponsored by SAVO Group
WHITE PAPER: This transcript is from the webcast entitled by the same name. It focuses on how top organizations are improving productivity, increasing sales and driving higher quality performance from every rep.
Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 02 Oct 2008
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Closing the Order-to-Cash Performance Gap between Document Processes and SAP® Solutions
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WHITE PAPER: For businesses running SAP solutions, manual processing of customer order and billing documents limits their ability to improve order-to-cash performance. Learn about technology that reduces processing time, costs, and DSO while maintaining accuracy.
Posted: 01 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 Sep 2008
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5 Fast Payoffs from Investing in a Demand Generation Solution
sponsored by Manticore Technology
WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the foundational building blocks needed to achieve fast payback from investing in demand generation.
Posted: 29 Sep 2008 | Published: 29 Sep 2008
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It's All about the Salesperson: Taking Advantage of Web 2.0
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the challenges salespeople face, the growing Web 2.0 trend in the enterprise, and the drivers for a new breed of social applications that complement traditional CRM systems to help sales users close more deals quickly.
Posted: 19 Sep 2008 | Published: 19 Sep 2008
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Driving Your Channel Business
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses key channel business trends, highlights the complexities and challenges of different channel models.
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 | Published: 17 Sep 2008
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End-User Experience and Performance Management (EPM): The Key to Better ERP Results
sponsored by Knoa Software
WHITE PAPER: This Executive Brief details a scenario where a billion-dollar heavy equipment manufacturer who used the end-user performance insight delivered by Knoa EPM to evaluate a shortfall in reaching a corporate performance objective.
Posted: 10 Sep 2008 | Published: 09 Sep 2008
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Leveraging Real-Time Web Collaboration to Improve Your Sales Process
sponsored by Cisco Systems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Top sales organizations have embraced real-time Web collaboration solutions and use them every day to improve their interactions with customers, partners, and within their internal sales teams. Learn how it can improve performance in your organization.
Posted: 04 Sep 2008 | Published: 04 Sep 2008
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Increasing Productivity for the Windows Mobile Workforce
sponsored by Celio Corp / REDFLY Mobile Companion
WHITE PAPER: The REDFLY Mobile Companion is a smartphone terminal that allows the smartphone to be used like a laptop when connected to REDFLY, its 80-key keyboard and 8-inch display allow users to interact with Word Mobile just like any word processor.
Posted: 29 Aug 2008 | Published: 29 Aug 2008
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The Best Database Marketing Discoveries for B2B Companies
sponsored by Extraprise Group, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper introduces client snapshots which illustrates how implementing specific B2B database marketing tactics improved the results and effectiveness of each company's overall marketing spend.
Posted: 10 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Aug 2008
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Building a Smarter Operational Response
sponsored by Bytware, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Caught in a pinch of downsizing, restore IT productivity through automation.
Posted: 11 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2007
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Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Marketing Resource Management
sponsored by Aprimo, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: MRM is a set of processes and capabilities designed to enhance a company's ability to orchestrate and optimize internal and external marketing resources.
Posted: 24 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Software as a Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This Yankee Group white paper explores what companies must do beyond software as a service (SaaS) solutions to improve sales effectiveness, increase customer satisfaction and provide a differentiated customer experience.
Posted: 02 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
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Case Study: adidas America Equips Sales Teams with Powerful Wireless Sales Tool
sponsored by BlackBerry
CASE STUDY: adidas America built their own sales force and CRM application using the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution™.
Posted: 18 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2006
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Why CRM? The Business Case for Customer Relationship Management
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This paper makes the case that companies that understand the strategic value of CRM technology to achieve dramatic increases in revenue, productivity, and customer satisfaction will have a significant lead on those who lag in the adoption of CRM.
Posted: 02 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Jul 2006
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WebEx at a Glance
sponsored by WebEx Communications, Inc.
SOFTWARE DEMO: WebEx Support Center resolves remote support issues for Technical Support Representatives and IT Help Desks - increasing productivity, reducing support costs, and increasing customer satisfaction.
Posted: 12 Oct 2006 | Published: 01 Oct 2006
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Adesso Systems' Mobile Solutions Provide Organizations with Real-time Visibility to the Edge of Business
sponsored by Adesso Systems, Inc.
PRESS RELEASE: Adesso helps companies mobilize the delivery of corporate data and strategic business process information to mobile workers while simultaneously providing corporate managers with real-time visibility into business activity at the edge of their operations.
Posted: 16 Sep 2004 | Published: 01 Sep 2004
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Lotus Notes Sales Automation and Contact Management Software
sponsored by Automation Centre
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Prospect Tracker is a comprehensive Lotus Notes sales automation module, a powerful, flexible database containing all of your organization's sales prospects and contact management tools.
Posted: 30 Aug 2004 | Published: 30 Aug 2004
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WorkIQ™ Sales: Overview
sponsored by Trisolve Technologies, Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:WorkIQ Sales is a dynamic web-based sales management tool that is your CRM software for sales force automation.
Posted: 13 Jun 2004 | Published: 01 Jun 2004
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Online CRM/SFA Solutions
sponsored by SalesBoom Inc.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Successful Businesses depend on creating long-lasting relationships with customers. SalesBoom will help your organization do exactly that.
Posted: 21 Apr 2004 | Published: 01 Apr 2004
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Wintouch® eCRM: Web-enabled CRM Suite for the IBM iSeries
sponsored by Touchtone Corporation
PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Wintouch eCRM is an enterprise-wide customer service, sales force and marketing automation software suite for the AS/400 - iSeries platform.
Posted: 18 Apr 2004 | Published: 15 Apr 2004
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Touchtone Announces Mac OS X Access to Wintouch
sponsored by Touchtone Corporation
PRESS RELEASE:Touchtone Corporation, a leading developer of native OS/400 software for the IBM iSeries – AS/400 announced that Wintouch eCRM 6.0 is now accessible using Mac OS X.
Posted: 18 Apr 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2004
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Wintouch® eCRM: Web-enabled Enterprise CRM
sponsored by Touchtone Corporation
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Wintouch eCRM is an enterprise-wide customer service, sales force automation and marketing automation solution. Small and midsize companies need a way to improve sales performance, customer satisfaction and marketing results and Wintouch eCRM can deliver.
Posted: 18 Apr 2004 | Published: 15 Apr 2004
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ASP Wintouch® Online CRM: Web-Accessed Customer Relationship Management for Any Platform
sponsored by Touchtone Corporation
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Wintouch Online CRM is a Customer Relationship Management, Customer service, Sales Force Automation and Marketing Automation solution, available over the Internet on an Application Service Provider (ASP) basis, or simply put, a monthly rental by the user.
Posted: 18 Apr 2004 | Published: 15 Apr 2004
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Prophet 2004 Server Edition: Be a More Effective Sales Team with Prophet Server Edition!
sponsored by Avidian Technologies
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:The combination of Prophet 2004 and the Server Edition is the perfect solution for Outlook based sales organizations that want to add sales opportunity management to Outlook and need to share the data between several to a thousand people.
Posted: 18 Mar 2004 | Published: 17 Mar 2004
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Prophet 2004 Transforms Outlook into a Powerful Sales Management Solution
sponsored by Avidian Technologies
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Prophet 2004 takes the most important aspects of sales opportunity management and builds them into Outlook so that you are using a single application and contact database to manage all of your important customer communications.
Posted: 18 Mar 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2004
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The GroupLink Approach: Collaborative Customer Engagement™
sponsored by GroupLink
PRODUCT OVERVIEW:Collaborative Customer Engagement is an essential step for making your company flexible enough to do business in the global economy.
Posted: 18 Mar 2004 | Published: 01 Jan 2004
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SALES FORCE AUTOMATION DEFINITION (continued): …  Commerce's ACT! and GoldMine Software's GoldMine. Sales automation software is sometimes called sales automation software software, and sometimes called customer relations management (CRM) software.

SFA packages typically include a Web-ready database, an e-mail package, and customizable templates. A three-tiered architecture is typically used to separate the database, server, and application to reduce programming demands on clients. A module-based design is generally used, to allow users to customize the package to suit their needs.

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